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Difference Between Lit and Pit
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Lit
Past and past participle of light, light
Pit
A large hole in the ground.
Lit
Provided with light or lighting; illuminated
Leaving the safety of a lit street
A lit window at dusk
Pit
A hollow or indentation in a surface.
Lit
Having been ignited; burning
A lit cigarette
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Pit
An area at the side of a track where racing cars are serviced and refuelled
He had a flat tyre when he came into the pits
The pit lane
Lit
Drunk.
Pit
An orchestra pit.
Lit
Short for literature
Chick lit
Pit
A part of the floor of a stock exchange in which a particular stock or commodity is traded
The trading pit of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange
Pooled commodity funds liquidated positions in the corn and soybean pits
Lit
A past tense and a past participle of light1. See Usage Note at light1.
Pit
An enclosure in which animals are made to fight
A bear pit
Lit
A past tense and a past participle of light1.
Pit
A person's bed.
Lit
Informal. Drunk or drugged. Often used with up.
Pit
A person's armpit.
Lit
Literature, especially as an academic subject
Enjoyed my course in French lit.
Pit
The stone of a fruit.
Lit
Simple past tense and past participle of light||illuminate; start a fire; etc
Pit
Set someone or something in conflict or competition with
You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions
Lit
Simple past tense and past participle of light||alight: land, come down on
Pit
Make a hollow or indentation in the surface of
Rain poured down, pitting the bare earth
Lit
To run or light (alight).
Pit
Drive a racing car into the pits for fuel or maintenance
He pitted on lap 36 with sudden engine trouble
Lit
(transitive) To colour; dye.
Pit
Remove the pit from (fruit).
Lit
Illuminated.
He walked down the lit corridor.
Pit
A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.
Lit
(slang) Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.
Pit
An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.
Lit
(slang) Sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused.
Pit
The shaft of a mine.
Lit
(slang) Exciting, captivating; fun.
This party is gonna be lit.
Pit
A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.
Lit
(slang) Excellent, fantastic; cool.
Those jeans are lit.
Pit
A small indentation in a surface
Pits in a windshield.
Lit
(obsolete) Little.
Pit
A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.
Lit
(obsolete) Little.
Pit
A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.
Lit
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
Pit
(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.
Lit
Clipping of literature
Do we have any lit homework tonight?
Pit
(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.
Lit
The humanistic study of a body of literature;
He took a course in Russian lit
Pit
(Informal) An armpit.
Lit
Provided with artificial light;
Illuminated advertising
Looked up at the lighted windows
A brightly lit room
A well-lighted stairwell
Pit
An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.
Lit
Set afire or burning;
The lighted candles
A lighted cigarette
A lit firecracker
Pit
The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.
Pit
Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.
Pit
The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.
Pit
The gambling area of a casino.
Pit
A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.
Pit
Often pits(Sports) An area beside an auto racecourse where cars may be refueled or serviced during a race
Pulled into the pits to have the tires rotated.
Pit
Hell. Used with the.
Pit
A miserable or depressing place or situation.
Pit
Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the
"New York politics are the pits" (Washington Star).
Pit
(Football) The middle areas of the defensive and offensive lines.
Pit
The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.
Pit
To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars
A surface pitted with craters.
Pit
To set in direct opposition or competition
A war that pitted brother against brother.
Pit
To place, bury, or store in a pit.
Pit
To become marked with pits.
Pit
To retain an impression after being indented. Used of the skin.
Pit
To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.
Pit
To extract the pit from (a fruit).
Pit
A hole in the ground.
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
Pit
(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.
Pit
(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.
Pit
A mine.
Pit
(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.
Pit
(trading) A trading pit.
Pit
The bottom part of something.
I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.
Pit
(colloquial) Armpit.
Pit
(aviation) A luggage hold.
Pit
(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
Pit
The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
Pit
The grave, underworld or Hell.
Pit
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Pit
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.
Pit
(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
Pit
(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.
Pit
(American football) The center of the line.
Pit
(hospital slang) The emergency department.
Pit
A bed.
Pit
(informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
This house is a total pit. We've got to get out of here!
Get back to the pit, dish bitch!
Pit
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
Pit
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
Pit
(military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
Pit
(informal) A pit bull terrier.
Pit
(transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
Pit
(transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
Pit
(transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
Pit
To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
Pit
(transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
Pit
A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
Tumble me into some loathsome pit.
Pit
Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.
He keepth back his soul from the pit.
Pit
A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits.
Pit
A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
Pit
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.
Pit
An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Pit
The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
Pit
To place or put into a pit or hole.
They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave.
Pit
To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
Pit
To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
Pit
A sizeable hole (usually in the ground);
They dug a pit to bury the body
Pit
A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
Pit
The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;
You should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
Pit
A trap in the form of a concealed hole
Pit
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;
A British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
Pit
Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
Pit
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Pit
Set into opposition or rivalry;
Let them match their best athletes against ours
Pit a chess player against the Russian champion
He plays his two children off against each other
Pit
Mark with a scar;
The skin disease scarred his face permanently
Pit
Remove the pits from;
Pit plums and cherries
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