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pit

 
 
/pɪt/ noun [C]

Translation

HOLE a large hole which has been dug in the ground
çukur, delik
15361657
SEED US ( UK stone) a large, hard seed that grows inside some types of fruit and vegetables
meyve/sebze çekirdeği
529
COAL ( also US pit mine) a place where coal is dug out from under the ground
maden ocağı; kömür madeni
Thousands of jobs were lost as more pits closed.266
the pits UK ( US the pit) the place where racing cars stop to be repaired or filled with fuel during a race
pistte yarış arabalarının bakımının yapıldığı cep, pit
267
be the pits informal to be very bad
en berbat/en kötüsü olmak
Our hotel was the absolute pits.9632296
(Definition of pit noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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