Pit vs Gouge - What's the difference?
pit | gouge | Synonyms |
A hole in the ground.
(motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
(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.
A mine.
(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.
(trading) A trading pit.
Something particularly unpleasant.
The bottom part of.
(colloquial) Armpit, oxter.
(aviation) A luggage hold.
(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
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The grave, or underworld.
* Milton
* Bible, Job xxxiii. 18
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
* John Locke
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.
Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
To make pits in.
To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
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A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
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To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
In lang=en terms the difference between pit and gouge
is that pit is 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 while gouge is an impostor; a cheat.In transitive terms the difference between pit and gouge
is that pit is to remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe while gouge is to charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.pit
English
(wikipedia pit)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits' around two microns across. Such '''pits''' are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these ' pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
- Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.
- He keepeth back his soul from the pit .
- as fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit
Derived terms
* armpit * money pit * pit-eye * pit stopVerb
(pitt)- Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
- Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
- For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare (l).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(pitt)- One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
Anagrams
* * ----gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
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Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.