English Dictionary

pit

IPA（発音記号）

/pɪt/

名詞

口語 可算名詞 複数形 俗語 定冠詞付き イギリス英語 くだけた表現

A hole in the ground. / (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

日本語の意味

地面にある穴や陥没部位 / モーターレースにおいて、補給や修理のために用いられる専用エリア（ピットエリア）

The hikers peered into the deep pit and shivered at the cool, damp air.

ハイカーたちは深い穴をのぞき込み、冷たく湿った空気に身震いした。

意味（1）

A hole in the ground.

The meadow around the town is full of old pits.

意味（2）

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

Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.

意味（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.

意味（4）

A mine.

意味（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.

The exact sites of Feng and Hao have yet to be verified, but seven pits containing chariots, horses and other Zhou burial objects were discovered at Fengxi, and a concentration of Western Zhou relics and tombs was found in the area of Doumen in Changan County on the east bank of the Feng River.

意味（6）

(trading) A trading pit.

意味（7）

The bottom part of something.

I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.

意味（8）

(colloquial) Armpit.

意味（9）

(aviation) A luggage hold.

意味（10）

(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

意味（11）

The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

意味（12）

The grave, underworld or Hell.

Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.

意味（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

意味（14）

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.

意味（15）

(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

意味（16）

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

His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.

意味（17）

(slang) A mosh pit.

Because the museum was closed for renovation, the school decided to bring its fourth-graders to the pit at a Cannibal Corpse gig instead.

意味（18）

(American football) The center of the line.

The ball carrier can be with or without a football. For the “Head-On” tackle have the “Ball Carrier” stand right in front of the pit and face the tackler.

意味（19）

(hospital slang) The emergency department.

意味（20）

(UK, military, slang) A bed.

Many Bacardi & Cokes later I climbed up into my pit and fell into a deep sleep, and woke up at one thirty in the morning and threw up my tea.

意味（21）

(informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.

This house is a total pit. We've got to get out of here!

pits （ plural ）