Pit vs. Den — What's the Difference?

A large hole in the ground.

The shelter or retreat of a wild animal; a lair.

A hollow or indentation in a surface.

A cave or hollow used as a refuge or hiding place.

An area at the side of a track where racing cars are serviced and refuelled

A hidden or squalid dwelling place

An orchestra pit.

A secluded room for study or relaxation.

A part of the floor of a stock exchange in which a particular stock or commodity is traded

A unit of about eight to ten Cub Scouts.

An enclosure in which animals are made to fight

To inhabit or hide in a den.

A person's bed.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.

A person's armpit.

A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.

The stone of a fruit.

A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.

Set someone or something in conflict or competition with

Syn of fort

Make a hollow or indentation in the surface of

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

Drive a racing car into the pits for fuel or maintenance

A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.

Remove the pit from (fruit).

Abbreviation of denier(a unit of weight)

A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.

(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.

An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

The shaft of a mine.

A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.

A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.

Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.

A small indentation in a surface

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.

To live in, or as in, a den.

A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.

The habitation of wild animals

(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.

A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws

(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.

A unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts

(Informal) An armpit.

A room that is comfortable and secluded

An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.

The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.

Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.

The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.

The gambling area of a casino.

A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.

Often pits(Sports) An area beside an auto racecourse where cars may be refueled or serviced during a race

Hell. Used with the.

A miserable or depressing place or situation.

Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the

(Football) The middle areas of the defensive and offensive lines.

The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.

To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars

To set in direct opposition or competition

To place, bury, or store in a pit.

To become marked with pits.

To retain an impression after being indented. Used of the skin.

To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.

To extract the pit from (a fruit).

A hole in the ground.

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

(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.

A mine.

(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.

(trading) A trading pit.

The bottom part of something.

(colloquial) Armpit.

(aviation) A luggage hold.

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

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

The grave, underworld or Hell.

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

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.

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

(slang) A mosh pit.

(American football) The center of the line.

(hospital slang) The emergency department.

A bed.

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

A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.

A shell in a drupe containing a seed.

(military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.

(informal) A pit bull terrier.

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

(transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.

(transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.

To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

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

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.

A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.

A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body

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.

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

The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

To place or put into a pit or hole.

To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

A sizeable hole (usually in the ground);

A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;

A trap in the form of a concealed hole

A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;

Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers

A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Set into opposition or rivalry;

Mark with a scar;

Remove the pits from;