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Pit vs Peach - What's the difference?

pit | peach |

As nouns the difference between pit and peach

is that pit is foot while peach is (us|informal) a native or resident of georgia in the united states.

pit

English

(wikipedia pit)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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, […].}}
  • The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
  • The grave, or underworld.
  • * Milton
  • Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.
  • * Bible, Job xxxiii. 18
  • He keepeth back his soul from the pit .
  • An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
  • * John Locke
  • as fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit
  • 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.
  • Derived terms
    * armpit * money pit * pit-eye * pit stop

    Verb

    (pitt)
  • To make pits in.
  • Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
  • To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
  • To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
  • Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • 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.
  • (motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
  • A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
  • Verb

    (pitt)
  • To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
  • One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    peach

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) peche, from (etyl) pesche (French: . See Perse.

    Noun

    (wikipedia peach) (peaches)
  • A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  • (senseid) The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
  • * 1915? , T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach ?
    I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
  • A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
  • (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon.}}
  • The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
  • Adjective

  • (colour) Of the color peach.
  • Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
  • Synonyms
    * agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosy
    Antonyms
    * disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant
    Derived terms
    * Indian peach * lesser peach tree borer * open peach * peachen * peaches and cream * peachlike * Peach Melba * peach palm * peachy * pickle peach * plum peach * press peach

    See also

    * laetrile * nectarine *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . See impeach.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), ''(Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)
  • And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
  • * 1913 , (Rex Stout), Her Forbidden Knight , 1997 edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:
  • "Do you think we want to peach ? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is."
  • (obsolete) To inform against.
  • Synonyms
    * (intransitive) sing, squeal, tattle
    Antonyms
    * hide * keep secret