Adit vs Dit - What's the difference?
adit | dit |
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]:
* 2008 , Iain M. Banks, Matter , page 445:
To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.
(archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) A word; a decree.
As a noun 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.As a verb dit is
(d) to happen.adit
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.
- 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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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ditten, .Verb
Etymology 2
Variant of dite.Noun
(en noun)- No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit : / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].