Pit vs Puddle - What's the difference?

pit | puddle |

As nouns the difference between pit and puddle

is that pit is a hole in the ground while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.

As verbs the difference between pit and puddle

is that pit is to make pits in while puddle is to form a puddle.

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

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puddle

English

Noun

(en noun)

A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:

And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].

* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:

searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle , that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.

A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.

Verb

(puddl)

To form a puddle.

To play or splash in a puddle.

To process iron by means of puddling.

To line a canal with puddle (clay).

To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.

To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

* Shakespeare

Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.