Pin vs. Pit: What's the Difference?

A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.

A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.

Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.

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

A whit; a jot

The shaft of a mine.

A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.

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

A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.

A small indentation in a surface

A cotter pin.

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

The part of a key stem entering a lock.

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

(Music) One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.

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

(Nautical) A belaying pin.

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

(Nautical) A thole pin.

(Informal) An armpit.

An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.

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

A rolling pin.

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

One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.

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

A flagstick.

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

See fall.

The gambling area of a casino.

Pins(Informal) The legs

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

(Electronics) A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.

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

Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.

Hell. Used with the.

Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.

A miserable or depressing place or situation.

Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.

Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the

To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.

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

To transfix.

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

To place in a position of trusting dependence

To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars

To hold fast; immobilize

To set in direct opposition or competition

(Sports) To win a fall from in wrestling.

To place, bury, or store in a pit.

To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.

To become marked with pits.

Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.

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

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.

A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

To extract the pit from (a fruit).

A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.

A hole in the ground.

The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

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

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

(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 leg.

A mine.

(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.

(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.

A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.

(trading) A trading pit.

(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.

The bottom part of something.

(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.

(colloquial) Armpit.

(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole

(aviation) A luggage hold.

(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)

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

(archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.

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

(obsolete) A mood, a state of being.

The grave, underworld or Hell.

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.

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

Caligo.

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.

A thing of small value; a trifle.

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

A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

(slang) A mosh pit.

(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.

(American football) The center of the line.

The tenon of a dovetail joint.

(hospital slang) The emergency department.

A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.

A bed.

(informal) A pinball machine.

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

(locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.

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

(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.

A shell in a drupe containing a seed.

To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.

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

(wrestling) To pin down (someone).

(informal) A pit bull terrier.

To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

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

To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.

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

To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.

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

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

(transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.

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

To peen.

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

To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.

To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

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

A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.

A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body

Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

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.

Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.

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

That which resembles a pin in its form or use

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

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

To place or put into a pit or hole.

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.

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

Mood; humor.

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

Caligo. See Caligo.

A sizeable hole (usually in the ground);

An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.

A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.

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 piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment

A trap in the form of a concealed hole

When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

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

A number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts

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

Informal terms of the leg;

Set into opposition or rivalry;

Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

Mark with a scar;

Cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown

Remove the pits from;

Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

A small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in groups as a target

To hold fast or prevent from moving;

Attach or fasten with pins

Pierce with a pin;

Immobilize a piece