Pit Meaning in Spanish

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1. () A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado.
2. (n.) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
3. (n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
4. (n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
5. (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
6. (n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
7. (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.
8. (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
9. (v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
10. (n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
11. (n.) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
12. (n.) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
13. (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.
14. (n.) A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
15. (n.) See Pit of the stomach (below).
16. (n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
17. (n.) Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
18. (v. t.) To place or put into a pit or hole.

1. (n.) A pit; a pockmark.

1. (n.) A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.
2. (n.) The plant which yields the fiber.

1. (n.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

1. (n.) A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.
2. (adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.

1. (n.) The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.
2. (v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value.
3. (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
4. (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
5. (v. i.) To fix ones choise; -- with on or upon.
6. (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
7. (n.) Height; stature.
8. (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
9. (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
10. (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
11. (n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.
12. (n.) Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
13. (n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
14. (n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
15. (v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
16. (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
17. (n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
18. (n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
19. (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
20. (n.) See Pitchstone.
21. (v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
22. (n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
23. (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
24. (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
25. (v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

1. (a.) Black as pitch or tar.

1. (a.) Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.

1. (a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.