Sit vs. Pit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sit and Pit
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Sit
To rest with the torso vertical and the body supported on the buttocks.
Pit
A large hole in the ground.
Sit
To rest with the hindquarters lowered onto a supporting surface. Used of animals.
Pit
A hollow or indentation in a surface.
Sit
To perch. Used of birds.
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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
Sit
To cover eggs for hatching; brood.
Pit
An orchestra pit.
Sit
To be situated or located
A house that sits on a hill.
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
Sit
To lie or rest
Dishes were sitting on a shelf. See Usage Note at set1.
Pit
An enclosure in which animals are made to fight
A bear pit
Sit
To pose for an artist or photographer.
Pit
A person's bed.
Sit
To occupy a seat as a member of a body of officials
Sit in Congress.
Pit
A person's armpit.
Sit
To be in session.
Pit
The stone of a fruit.
Sit
To remain inactive or unused
Her expensive skis sat gathering dust.
Pit
Set someone or something in conflict or competition with
You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions
Sit
To affect one with or as if with a burden; weigh
Official duties sat heavily upon the governor.
Pit
Make a hollow or indentation in the surface of
Rain poured down, pitting the bare earth
Sit
To fit, fall, or drape in a specified manner
The jacket sits perfectly on you.
Pit
Drive a racing car into the pits for fuel or maintenance
He pitted on lap 36 with sudden engine trouble
Sit
To be agreeable to one; please
The idea didn't sit well with any of us.
Pit
Remove the pit from (fruit).
Sit
Chiefly British To take an examination, as for a degree.
Pit
A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.
Sit
To blow from a particular direction. Used of the wind.
Pit
An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.
Sit
To keep watch or take care of a child.
Pit
The shaft of a mine.
Sit
To cause to sit; seat
Sit yourself over there.
Pit
A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.
Sit
To keep one's seat on (an animal)
She sits her horse well.
Pit
A small indentation in a surface
Pits in a windshield.
Sit
To sit on (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
Pit
A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.
Sit
To provide seating accommodation for
A theater that sits 1,000 people.
Pit
A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.
Sit
The act of sitting.
Pit
(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.
Sit
A period of time spent sitting.
Pit
(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.
Sit
The way in which an article of clothing, such as a dress or jacket, fits.
Pit
(Informal) An armpit.
Sit
To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
Pit
An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.
Sit
To move oneself into such a position.
I asked him to sit.
Pit
The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.
Sit
To occupy a given position.
The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
Jim's pet parrot sat on his left shoulder.
Pit
Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.
Sit
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
Pit
The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.
Sit
(government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
I currently sit on a standards committee.
Pit
The gambling area of a casino.
Sit
Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
Pit
A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.
Sit
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
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.
Sit
To be adjusted; to fit.
Your new coat sits well.
Pit
Hell. Used with the.
Sit
To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
How will this new contract sit with the workers?
I don’t think it will sit well.
The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.
Pit
A miserable or depressing place or situation.
Sit
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
Pit
Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the
"New York politics are the pits" (Washington Star).
Sit
(transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
Pit
(Football) The middle areas of the defensive and offensive lines.
Sit
To babysit.
I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
Pit
The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.
Sit
To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
Pit
To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars
A surface pitted with craters.
Sit
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
Pit
To set in direct opposition or competition
A war that pitted brother against brother.
Sit
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
Pit
To place, bury, or store in a pit.
Sit
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
Pit
To become marked with pits.
Sit
To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.
Pit
To retain an impression after being indented. Used of the skin.
Sit
(mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
Pit
To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.
Sit
An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
Pit
To extract the pit from (a fruit).
Sit
To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; - said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat.
I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner.
Pit
A hole in the ground.
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
Sit
To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
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.
Sit
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
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.
Sit
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; - with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
The calamity sits heavy on us.
Pit
A mine.
Sit
To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,Sits not so easy on me as you think.
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.
Sit
To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; - used impersonally.
Pit
(trading) A trading pit.
Sit
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
Pit
The bottom part of something.
I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.
Sit
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits.
Sits the wind in that quarter?
Pit
(colloquial) Armpit.
Sit
To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
Pit
(aviation) A luggage hold.
Sit
To hold a session; to be in session for official business; - said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
Pit
(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
Sit
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
Pit
The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
Sit
To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
Hardly the muse can sit the headstrong horse.
Pit
The grave, underworld or Hell.
Sit
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; - used reflexively.
They sat them down to weep.
Sit you down, father; rest you.
Pit
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Sit
To suit (well or ill); to become.
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.
Sit
Be standing; be upright;
We had to stand for the entire performance!
Pit
(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
Sit
Sit around, often unused;
The object sat in the corner
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.
Sit
Take a seat
Pit
(American football) The center of the line.
Sit
Be in session;
When does the court of law sit?
Pit
(hospital slang) The emergency department.
Sit
Assume a posture as for artistic purposes;
We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
Pit
A bed.
Sit
Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions;
She never sat a horse!
Did you ever ride a camel?
The girl liked to drive the young mare
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!
Sit
Work or act as a baby-sitter;
I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do
Pit
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
Sit
Show to a seat; assign a seat for;
The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith
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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