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Adit vs Ait - What's the difference?

adit | ait |

As nouns the difference between adit and ait

is that adit is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine as contrasted to a shaft which is a vertical entry passage an adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes while ait is place, area.

adit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine as contrasted to a shaft which is a vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
  • * 2006 , Mike Hetman, IronMiners.com [http://www.ironminers.com/ironmines/old-mine-1.htm]:
    • The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.
  • * 2008 , Iain M. Banks, Matter , page 445:
    • The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.

    References

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    ait

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ait) (en noun)
  • An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
  • * R. Hodges (1649)
    • The ait where the osiers grew.
  • * 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
    • Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
  • * 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
    • Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
  • (Scotland) An oat.
    • (Burns)

    Synonyms

    * eyot

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