Pit vs. Wit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pit and Wit
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Pit
A large hole in the ground.
Wit
Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.
Pit
A hollow or indentation in a surface.
Wit
The capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence
She does not lack perception or native wit
He needed all his wits to figure out the way back
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
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Wit
A natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour
His caustic wit cuts through the humbug
Pit
An orchestra pit.
Wit
Have knowledge
I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of
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
Wit
That is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)
The textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English
Pit
An enclosure in which animals are made to fight
A bear pit
Wit
The natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence.
Pit
A person's bed.
Wit
Often wits Practical intelligence; shrewdness or resourcefulness
Living by one's wits.
Pit
A person's armpit.
Wit
Wits Sound mental faculties; sanity
Scared out of my wits.
Pit
The stone of a fruit.
Wit
(Archaic) A person of exceptional intelligence.
Pit
Set someone or something in conflict or competition with
You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions
Wit
The ability to express oneself intelligently in a playful or humorous manner, often in overturning audience expectations
A writer with a scintillating wit.
Pit
Make a hollow or indentation in the surface of
Rain poured down, pitting the bare earth
Wit
A person noted for this ability, especially in conversation
“My mother, the family wit and teaser, knew better than to joke about the disaster” (Donald Hall).
Pit
Drive a racing car into the pits for fuel or maintenance
He pitted on lap 36 with sudden engine trouble
Wit
Intelligent playfulness or humor in expression, as in speech, writing, or art
Novels known for their wit and inventiveness.
Pit
Remove the pit from (fruit).
Wit
To be or become aware of; learn.
Pit
A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.
Wit
To know.
Pit
An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.
Wit
Sanity.
He's gone completely out of his wits.
Pit
The shaft of a mine.
Wit
The senses.
Pit
A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.
Wit
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
Pit
A small indentation in a surface
Pits in a windshield.
Wit
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
Pit
A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.
Wit
Intelligence; common sense.
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
Pit
A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.
Wit
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
Pit
(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.
Wit
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?
Pit
(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.
Wit
Know, be aware of constructed with of when used intransitively.
You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
Pit
(Informal) An armpit.
Wit
(Southern American English) with
Pit
An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.
Wit
To know; to learn.
Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
Thou wost full little what thou meanest.
We witen not what thing we prayen here.
When that the sooth in wist.
Pit
The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.
Wit
Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?
A prince most prudent, of an excellentAnd unmatched wit and judgment.
Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.
He wants not wit the dander to decline.
Pit
Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.
Wit
A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
I will stare him out of his wits.
Pit
The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.
Wit
Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.
Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity.
Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy.
Pit
The gambling area of a casino.
Wit
A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.
A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit.
But my five wits nor my five senses canDissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.
Pit
A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.
Wit
A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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.
Wit
Mental ability;
He's got plenty of brains but no common sense
Pit
Hell. Used with the.
Wit
A witty amusing person who makes jokes
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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