Pit vs Indent - What's the difference?
pit | indent | 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 notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
A stamp; an impression.
A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
To be cut, notched, or dented.
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
(historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
(obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
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(obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
(typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
(obsolete) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
(military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
In transitive terms the difference between pit and indent
is that pit is to remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe while indent is to notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.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
* * ----indent
English
(wikipedia indent)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
- to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty
- to indent''' a young man to a shoemaker; to '''indent a servant
- (Wilhelm)