(n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
(n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
(n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.
(n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
(n.) Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
(n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
(n.) A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
(n.) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
(n.) See Pit of the stomach (below).
(n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
(n.) Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.
(n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
(n.) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
(n.) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
(v. t.) To place or put into a pit or hole.
(v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
(v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
Example Sentences:
(1) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(2) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(5) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(6) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
(7) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.
(8) A cell with a large Golgi apparatus and associated cytoplasmic granules resembles the pit cell described in the liver of a few other vertebrates.
(9) Pitting corrosion was seen on low-resistant Ni-Cr alloys, which had less Cr content.
(10) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(11) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(12) Freeze fracture analysis confirmed the integrity of the tight junctions as well as increased numbers of vesicles or pits along the lateral cell membrane, indicating increased endocytotic activity.
(13) Likewise, the cost of emptying these pits can be high.
(14) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(15) Hypertrophic fibrous astrocytes were common in chronic active lesions, were capable of myelin degradation and on occasion, contained myelin debris attached to clathrin-coated pits.
(16) A mother and daughter both presented at age 5 years with the triad of right-sided congenital cholesteatoma, right preauricular pits, and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
(17) In addition, the perfusion method in this experiment suggested the possibility of distinguishing pinocytotic vesicles from pits of cell membranes.
(18) Performance pay pitting teachers against each other just does not work - we are not in favour of that,” Merlino said.
(19) Both larval stages had an inner circle of 6 labial papillae, an outer circle of 6 labial papillae and 4 somatic papillae, and lateral amphidial pits.
(20) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
Sandpit
Definition:
(n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 30 days working on the surface – essentially a large sandpit – the crew face a 240-day "return trip".
(2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(3) Halfway through the mission three of the crew clambered into spacesuits and stepped into a sandpit in a mock expedition on to the surface of the red planet .
(4) So popular is Savage that it’s now every Friday and Saturday night at the Metropolis stripclub in east London, where you can swing off the poles and jump into the tropical sandpit till silly o’clock.
(5) Eight species of dermatophytes and closely related fungi were recovered, of which the followings were the most commonly found species in sandpits: Chrysosporium keratinophilum (20.7%), Microsporum gypseum (17.2%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes (6.9%), and C. evolceanui (6.9%).
(6) From here, he has a reassuring domestic view down past John's paddling pool and tortoise-shaped sandpit ("Amazing what you can buy now") to the kitchen that he and Sarah have recently modernised ("We took out two walls, changed the structure a bit, and it's incredible how much light is let in").
(7) The highlight of their voyage will be a simulated spacewalk on Mars, which will take place in a large sandpit.
(8) The keratinophilic fungi of 29 sandpits from kindergarten schools and public parks in the city of Nablus was analysed to evaluate their role in the epidemiology of diseases caused by these fungi.
(9) Today journalists toured the sandpit while wearing 3D glasses – the experience was similar to wandering inside a dark and disappointing Moscow nightclub.
(10) Total viable count from the sandpits was highest in the surface layer sample than the inner layer throughout the year.
(11) You will cross farmland, and may encounter grazing livestock so, although dogs are certainly welcome, they must be kept under control, especially in Sandpit Field.
(12) While the Mars500 experiment aimed to recreate the long voyage, several important factors were left out: the results of weightlessness, potential radiation poisoning, and the fact they spent just a short amount of time in a dusty sandpit that bears little resemblance to Mars.
(13) In view of the results it can be concluded that park sandpits are not, from a hygienic point of view, to be an ideal environment for children to play in.
(14) "A lot of the children were beginning to draw pictures of the floods, and in the sandpits, they would build dams," he says.
(15) The complex has a track, an indoor sandpit for long jump and a gallery for spectators.
(16) This leisure sandwich is even topped off by a penthouse nursery with a ziggurat of ball pools and sandpits on its own roof terrace.
(17) The retailer also stocks a large range of toys, from plastic sandpits to trikes, under its Early Learning Centre brand.
(18) To my left a scientist is remotely manipulating a robot in a large sandpit.
(19) Photograph: Pierre Crom A short walk away over shattered glass, shell craters and a child’s sandpit, a middle-aged soldier placidly cleans his machine-gun in a firewood shed, just a few hundred metres from Ukrainian positions.
(20) It will come as no surprise that owners Tamar and Miguel have children of their own: they've thought of everything to make families feel at home, from books and toys to a trampoline, sandpit and wooden pirate ship.