Pin vs. Pit: What's the Difference?

Pin and Pit Definitions
Pin
A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.
Pit
A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.
Pin
Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.
Pit
An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.
Pin
A whit; a jot
Didn't care a pin about the matter.
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Pit
The shaft of a mine.
Pin
A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.
Pit
A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.
Pin
A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.
Pit
A small indentation in a surface
Pits in a windshield.
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Pin
A cotter pin.
Pit
A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.
Pin
The part of a key stem entering a lock.
Pit
A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.
Pin
(Music) One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.
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Pit
(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.
Pin
(Nautical) A belaying pin.
Pit
(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.
Pin
(Nautical) A thole pin.
Pit
(Informal) An armpit.
Pin
An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.
Pit
An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.
Pin
A rolling pin.
Pit
The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.
Pin
One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.
Pit
Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.
Pin
A flagstick.
Pit
The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.
Pin
See fall.
Pit
The gambling area of a casino.
Pin
Pins(Informal) The legs
Is steady on his pins.
Pit
A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.
Pin
(Electronics) A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.
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.
Pin
Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.
Pit
Hell. Used with the.
Pin
Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.
Pit
A miserable or depressing place or situation.
Pin
Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.
Pit
Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the
"New York politics are the pits" (Washington Star).
Pin
To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.
Pit
(Football) The middle areas of the defensive and offensive lines.
Pin
To transfix.
Pit
The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.
Pin
To place in a position of trusting dependence
He pinned his faith on an absurdity.
Pit
To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars
A surface pitted with craters.
Pin
To hold fast; immobilize
He was pinned under the wreckage of the truck.
Pit
To set in direct opposition or competition
A war that pitted brother against brother.
Pin
(Sports) To win a fall from in wrestling.
Pit
To place, bury, or store in a pit.
Pin
To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.
Pit
To become marked with pits.
Pin
Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.
Pit
To retain an impression after being indented. Used of the skin.
Pin
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.
Pit
To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.
Pin
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
Pit
To extract the pit from (a fruit).
Pin
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
Pit
A hole in the ground.
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
Pin
The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
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.
Pin
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
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.
Pin
A leg.
I'm not so good on my pins these days.
Pit
A mine.
Pin
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
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.
Pin
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
Pit
(trading) A trading pit.
Pin
(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.
Pit
The bottom part of something.
I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.
Pin
(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.
Pit
(colloquial) Armpit.
Pin
(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
Pit
(aviation) A luggage hold.
Pin
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
The shot landed right on the pin.
Pit
(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
Pin
(archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
Pit
The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
Pin
(obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
Pit
The grave, underworld or Hell.
Pin
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
Pit
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Pin
Caligo.
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.
Pin
A thing of small value; a trifle.
Pit
(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
Pin
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
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.
Pin
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
Pit
(American football) The center of the line.
Pin
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
Pit
(hospital slang) The emergency department.
Pin
A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
Pit
A bed.
Pin
(informal) A pinball machine.
I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.
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!
Pin
(locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
Pit
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
Pin
(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
Pit
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
Pin
To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
Pit
(military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
Pin
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
He pinned his opponent on the mat.
Pit
(informal) A pit bull terrier.
Pin
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
Pit
(transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
Pin
To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
To pin a folder to the taskbar
Pit
(transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
Pin
To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
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?
Pin
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Pit
To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
Pin
(transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
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.
Pin
To peen.
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.
Pin
To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
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.
Pin
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
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.
Pin
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.
With pins of adamantAnd chains they made all fast.
Pit
A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
Pin
Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
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.
Pin
Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
He . . . did not care a pin for her.
Pit
An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Pin
That which resembles a pin in its form or use
Pit
The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
Pin
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
Pit
To place or put into a pit or hole.
They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave.
Pin
The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
Pit
To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
Pin
Mood; humor.
Pit
To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
Pin
Caligo. See Caligo.
Pit
A sizeable hole (usually in the ground);
They dug a pit to bury the body
Pin
An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
Pit
A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
Pin
The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
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
Pin
A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
Pit
A trap in the form of a concealed hole
Pin
When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
Pit
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;
A British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
Pin
Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
Pit
Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
Pin
A number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts
Pit
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Pin
Informal terms of the leg;
Fever left him weak on his sticks
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
Pin
Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
Pit
Mark with a scar;
The skin disease scarred his face permanently
Pin
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
Pit
Remove the pits from;
Pit plums and cherries
Pin
Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
Pin
A small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
Pin
A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
Pin
A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in groups as a target
Pin
To hold fast or prevent from moving;
The child was pinned under the fallen tree
Pin
Attach or fasten with pins
Pin
Pierce with a pin;
Pin down the butterfly
Pin
Immobilize a piece