Pit vs Void - What's the difference?
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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.
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
* Bible, Genesis i. 2
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
* Camden
Being without; destitute; devoid.
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 12
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
* Bible, Isa. lv. 11
* Bible, Jer. xix. 7
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
* Alexander Pope
(computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
* 2005 , Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
* 2007 , Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
An empty space; a vacuum.
* Alexander Pope
(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
(label) To make invalid or worthless.
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* (1609-1674)
*:It was become a practiceto void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
*(w) (1643-1715)
*:after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
To empty.
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To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
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*:You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)
*:With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
*:a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
To withdraw, depart.
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*:BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
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*:If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 68:
As nouns the difference between pit and void
is that pit is foot while void is an empty space; a vacuum or void can be .As an adjective void is
containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.As a verb void is
(label) to make invalid or worthless.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
* * ----void
English
(wikipedia void)Etymology 1
From (etyl) vuit'', ''voide (modern vide).Adjective
(-)- The earth was without form, and void .
- I'll get me to a place more void .
- I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
- divers great offices that had been long void
- He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
- [My word] shall not return to me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- null and void
- idol, void and vain
- In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
- The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
Noun
(en noun)- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Synonyms
* pore * bubbleVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (make invalid or worthless) annul, cancel * evacuateEtymology 2
Alteration of (voidee).Noun
(en noun)- Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void ’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.
