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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?t/, [p???t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”).

Noun

pit (plural pits)

1. A hole in the ground.

2. (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

3. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
4. A mine.
5. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
6. (trading) A trading pit.
7. The bottom part of something.

8. (colloquial) Armpit.
9. (aviation) A luggage hold.
10. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
11. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
12. The grave, or underworld.
    • 1611, Bible, Job xxxiii. 18 (KJV).

      He keepeth back his soul from the pit.

13. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

    • as fiercely as two game-cocks in the pit

15. Formerly, that part of a theatre, 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 theatre.
16. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
17. (slang) A pit bull terrier.

    I'm taking one of my pits to the vet on Thursday.

18. (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.

19. (slang) A mosh pit.

20. (law enforcement, usually used with "maneuver") A maneuver by which a police officer, by use of a police car, nudges the vehicle of a fleeing suspect enough for the suspect's vehicle to lose control and become disabled so the police officer can catch and apprehend the suspect.
21. (military) The fissile core of a nuclear weapon, commonly made of uranium or plutonium surrounded by high-explosive lenses.
22. (hospital slang) The emergency department.

Synonyms

• (pit bull terrier): pibble (informal), pit bull, pittie (informal), shitbull (pejorative), velvet hippo (slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pitting, simple past and past participle pitted)

1. (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.

   Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.

2. (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
3. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.

   Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?

   • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.

   • 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters

     That movement, pitted against a Bangkok-centered royalist and pro-military elite, has been at the heart of years of turmoil.

   • 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera

     Thaksin's ouster triggered years of upheaval and division that has pitted a poor, rural majority in the north that supports the Shinawatras against royalists, the military and their urban backers.

4. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþ?. Compare pith.

Noun

pit (plural pits)

1. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
2. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
3. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.

Translations

Verb

pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pitting, simple past and past participle pitted)

1. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

Translations

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

pit (plural pits)

1. (informal) A pit bull terrier.

Translations

Further reading

• pit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ITP, PTI, TIP, TPI, tip, tpi

Cahuilla

Noun

pít

1. road, path, way

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, from Proto-Indo-European *peg (“breast”). Compare Italian petto, Portuguese peito, Romanian piept, Spanish pecho.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pit/
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

pit m (plural pits)

1. breast

   Synonym: mamella

2. (castells) force to support the castell, provided by the castellers in the pinya by pressing their chest onto the back of the casteller in front of them

Related terms

• apitrar
• espitregar

Further reading

• “pit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t]

Verb

pit

1. masculine singular passive participle of pít

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pit
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pit. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

pit m or f (plural pitten, diminutive pitje n)

1. A seed inside a fruit.
2. wick (of a candle, lamp or other implement)

   Synonyms: lemmet, lont, wiek

3. burner (on a stove)
4. spirit, vigour

Derived terms

• gaspit
• kaarsenpit
• lampenpit
• pittig

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pit.

Noun

pit m (plural pits)

1. (racing) pit (refueling station and garage at a race track)

Derived terms

• pitpoes
• pitstop
• pitstraat

Anagrams

• tip

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish pit (“pit, hollow; female pudenda”), possibly related to putte (“pit, hollow”), Latin puteus.

Noun

pit f (genitive singular pite, nominative plural piteanna)

1. (anatomy) vulva
2. shell-less crab

Declension

Derived terms

• piteog f, piteachán m, piteán m (“effeminate man, sissy”)

Related terms

• faighin (“vagina”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "pit" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “pit, (put)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “vulva” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “pit” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Javanese

Etymology

From Dutch fiets (“bicycle”)

Noun

pit

1. bicycle

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?it/

Verb

pit

1. supine of pi?

Min Nan

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?it/

Noun

pit f

1. genitive plural of pita

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/

Verb

pit (third-person singular present pits, present participle pittin, past pit, past participle pit)

1. to put

Synonyms

• putt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish pit (“pit, hollow; female pudenda”), possibly related to putte (“pit, hollow”), Latin puteus.

Noun

pit f (genitive singular pite, plural pitean)

1. female external genitalia, vulva
2. (vulgar) cunt, pussy

References

• “pit” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “pit, (put)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Tocharian B

Noun

pit

1. gall, bile

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pit, variant of put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Noun

pit m

1. pit
2. well

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?ì?t]

  Rhymes: -ì?t

  Homophone: Pijt

Verb

pit

1. squeak, beep

Yola

Verb

pit

1. Alternative form of pidh

English

Etymology

From Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. Related to Old English tunne (“tun; cask; barrel”). More at tun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?n?l
• Hyphenation: tun?nel

Noun

tunnel (plural tunnels)

1. An underground or underwater passage.
2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
3. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
4. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
5. A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
6. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
7. (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: túnel

Translations

Verb

tunnel (third-person singular simple present tunnels, present participle (UK) tunnelling or (US) tunneling, simple past and past participle (UK) tunnelled or (US) tunneled)

1. (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
2. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
3. (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
4. (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
5. (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.

Derived terms

Further reading

• tunnel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tunnel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nunlet, unlent

Danish

Noun

tunnel c (definite singular tunnelen or tunnellen, indefinite plural tunneler or tunneller, definite plural tunnelerne or tunnellerne)

1. tunnel

Derived terms

• tunnelsyn
• vindtunnel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tunnel, from Middle French tonnelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.n?l/
• Hyphenation: tun?nel

Noun

tunnel m (plural tunnels, diminutive tunneltje n)

1. tunnel

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tunnel, itself a borrowing from French tonnelle; hence a reborrowing. Doublet of tonnelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.n?l/

Noun

tunnel m (plural tunnels)

1. tunnel

Derived terms

• voir le bout du tunnel

Further reading

• “tunnel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tunnel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tun.nel/
• Hyphenation: tùn?nel

Noun

tunnel m (invariable)

1. tunnel

   Synonyms: galleria, traforo

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tunell

Noun

tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunneler, definite plural tunnelene)

1. a tunnel
2. (soccer) nutmeg

Derived terms

References

• “tunnel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lunnet, lunten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tunell

Etymology

From English tunnel, Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??n?l?/, /?t?n??l/

Noun

tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunnelar, definite plural tunnelane)

1. a tunnel
2. (soccer) nutmeg

Derived terms

References

• “tunnel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tunnel c

1. tunnel
   1. An underground or underwater passage.
   2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
   3. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.

Declension

Related terms

• biltunnel
• järnvägstunnel
• tunneleffekt
• tunnelseende
• tunnla
• tunnling
• vindtunnel