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Look up: pit

  1. Pit
    The sunken area in front of the stage in which the orchestra sits.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/docs/teatre.rtf

  2. Pit
    To take out the center stone or seed of a fruit, such as a nectarine or a plum.
    Found on http://www.goodcooking.com/basic_ck.htm

  3. Pit
    A specific area of the trading floor that is designed for the trading of commodities, individual futures, or option contracts.
    Found on http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial

  4. PIT
    PIT is an abbreviation for Principal, Interest, and Taxes
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  5. Pit
    Pit is slang for bed.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  6. Pit
    The pea gravel area
    Found on http://www.dropzone.com/safety/resources

  7. Pit
    See Orchestra Pit.
    Found on http://www.dramatic.com.au/glossary/glos

  8. Pit
    Is the area on the floor of an exchange where trading occurs. It is also known as the ring.
    Found on http://www.oasismanagement.com/glossary/

  9. Pit
    A small membranous area of a generally thick cell wall.
    Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos

  10. Pit
    See Ring
    Found on http://www.exchange-handbook.co.uk/index

  11. pit
    [n] - a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) 2. [n] - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) 3. [n] - a trap in the form of a concealed hole 4. [n] - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate 5. [v] - set into opposition or rivalry 6. [v] - remove the pits from, as of certain fruit such as peaches
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  12. PIT
    Programmable Interval Timer
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/bab

  13. Pit
    The area below the front of the stage. May be used to house the orchestra. Also called the Orchestra Pit.
    Found on http://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/technica

  14. Pit
    a pinpoint depression in the occlusal surface od a tooth.
    Found on http://www.cosmeticdentistryguide.co.uk/

  15. pit
    a temporary containment, usually excavated earth, for wellbore fluids.
    Found on http://www.workover.co.uk/og/p.htm

  16. Pit
    An area within a futures exchange where trading in a particular futures or options contract is... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/pit.htm?id=1138&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of pit'>more</a>
    Found on http://www.finance-glossary.com/pages/ho

  17. PIT
    Language for IBM 650. (See IT).
    Found on

  18. pit
    A small hole (depression) occurring as an imperfection within a layer which does not penetrate entirely through the layer (as, for example, the conductive foil on a PWB).
    Found on http://www.ami.ac.uk/courses/topics/0100

  19. pit
    formerly, the area on the Paris Bourse where stockbrokers traded by open outcry Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • small pit remaining in a polished surface,due to insufficient polishing or the presence of oversize sand grains in the grinding sand Category: Various industries and crafts • small crater produced during grinding or sandblasting and remaining on...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  20. pit
    Region of the plant cell wall in which the secondary wall is interrupted, exposing the underlying primary cell wall. One or more plasmodesmata are usually present in the primary wall, communicating with the other half of a pit pair. May be simple or bordered; in the latter case, the secondary wall overarches the pit field. Do not confuse with coated pits.
    Found on

  21. Pit
    Pit noun [ Middle English pit , put , Anglo-Saxon pytt a pit, hole, Latin puteus a well, pit.] 1. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation ; specifically: (a) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit. (b) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/95

  22. Pit
    Pit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pitted ; present participle & verbal noun Pitting .] 1. To place or put into a pit or hole. « They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave.» T. Grander. 2. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; a ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/95

  23. pit
    Region of the plant cell wall in which the secondary wall is interrupted, exposing the underlying primary cell wall. One or more plasmodesmata are usually present in the primary wall, communicating with the other half of a pit pair. May be simple or bordered, in the latter case, the secondary wall overarches the pit field. Do not confuse with coate ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  24. pit
    quarry noun a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; `a British term for `quarry` is `stone pit``
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  25. pit
    fossa noun a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?


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21 November 2009

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On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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