pit against
To set in opposition to someone or something else.
Two of the greatest tennis players will be pitted against each other in next week's final.
pit
/pɪt/
noun 13verb 6name 1
Collocations
10(noun.) hole
ADJ
deep, shallow | bottomless | black, dark
chalk, gravel
Workers extracted chalk from the deep pit for building materials.
VERB + PIT
dig
(noun.) coal mine
ADJ
open
Workers carefully inspected the open pit before beginning the day's excavation work.
VERB + PIT
go down
My grandfather went down the pit every day for forty years until he retired.
PIT + NOUN
village
Many families moved away from the pit village when the mines closed down.
closure
PREP
in a/the ~
Her grandfather spent forty years working in the pit before he retired.
Definitions
noun
1
A hole in the ground.
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
27 Whoso diggeth a pit, shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will returne vpon him.
2
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.
3
The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instrum
4
A mine.
5
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.
verb
1
To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
2
To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
3
To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
4
To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
Bottas had to pit earlier than expected for fresh tyres. Hamilton followed him in next time around and the two drivers were instructed to stay off the kerbs to protect their tyres.
noun
1
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
Near-synonym: pip
2
The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
[...] weapons "pits" (the plutonium components of nuclear weapons, named by analogy with the pit of a fruit such as a peach), [...].
The Nagasaki-type [bomb] [...] had a wider range of yield potential depending on the kind of fissile core and tamper assembly, or "pit," used in it.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings
noun — a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
noun — a trap in the form of a concealed hole
noun — a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
noun — the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some
- stone
- endocarp
noun — a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depressio
verb — remove the pits from
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
money pit
A possession or financial commitment, especially a building or vehicle, that creates substantial ongoing expenses, especially one whose costs are considered to be unsustainable.
[T]he district does not want to hold on to the nearly 50-year old^([sic]) school for very much longer, as it has outlived its usefulness and has become a money pit.
he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
Someone that plans harm or misfortune for others may also inadvertently be the recipient of that same misfortune.
Example Bank
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The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
Wiktionary02
27 Whoso diggeth a pit, shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will returne vpon him.
Wiktionary03
Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.
Wiktionary04
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
Wiktionary05
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
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For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are cal
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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