{
    "term": "pit",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/fr/fruit_misc.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large deep hole in the ground",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We dug a deep pit in the yard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The body had been dumped in a pit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "shallow", "bottomless"],
                "verb + pit": ["dig"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a deep hole in the ground from which minerals are dug out",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **chalk/gravel pit**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They extract the mineral from open pits and underground mines."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a disused gravel pit"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "shallow", "bottomless"],
                "verb + pit": ["dig"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a place underground where coal is dug",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "pit closures"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He went down the pit *(= started work as a )* when he left school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most boys in the town worked in the pits."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's no more work in these pit villages."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["open"],
                "verb + pit": ["go down"],
                "pit + noun": ["village", "closure"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the pit"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a small shallow hole in the surface of something, especially a mark left on the surface of the skin by some disease, such as chickenpox",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a hard shell containing the nut or seed in the middle of some types of fruit",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)especially in British English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a peach pit"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["apricot", "peach", "etc."],
                "verb + pit": ["remove"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a place near the track where cars can stop for fuel, new tyres, etc. during a race",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English usually",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Sports: other sports"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "the place in a theatre just in front of the stage where the orchestra sits and plays for an opera, a ballet, etc.",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "an armpit (= the part of the body under the arm where it joins the shoulder)",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "the area of a stock exchange where a particular product is traded",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the corn pit"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very bad or the worst example of something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a thing or situation which seems to have no limits or seems never to end",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There isn't a bottomless pit of money for public spending."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the bottomless pit of his sorrow"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the bottom of the stomach where people say they feel strong feelings, especially fear",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had a sudden sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the ambulance."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɪt/",
                "audio": "pi/pit/pit__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɪt/",
                "audio": "pi/pit/pit__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 4 and noun senses 6 to 9,Old English pytt, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch put and German Pfütze, based on Latin puteus ‘well, shaft’. noun sense 5 mid 19th cent.: apparently from Dutch; related to pith."
}