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pitting::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | indentation, roughness |
| Type of | corroding, corrosion, erosion |
| Derivation | pit |
Examples of pitting
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Beyond pitting property rights against preservation goals, the feud is personal.
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Some find boats challenging, pitting them against the sea's overpowering forces.
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But isn't allowing pitting strategies to happen the really serious problem here?
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Also, avoid pitting yourself against anxiety as if it were an enemy to vanquish.
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These days, however, a territorial dispute is pitting neighbor against neighbor.
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He climbed into the top-10 after 20 laps which he held until pitting on lap 32.
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Ranger and Bowles took early risks by pitting for fuel on the 16th and 17th laps.
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The idea of pitting female athletes against males always seems to strike a nerve.
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In practice this has meant pitting the Northern tribes against the Southern ones.
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- A sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
- Set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
- A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- Scar: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
- Remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
- Stone: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
- Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Pu0113 , Hebrew Pu0113 u05E4, Aramaic Pu0113 , Syriac Pu0113 u0726, and Arabic Fu0101u02BC u0641 (in abjadi order) and also Persian Peu02BC u067E.
- Pit or PIT may refer to:
- Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game was developed for Parker Brothers and first sold in 1904. ...
