What's the difference between help and pit?

Help


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."
  • (v. t.) To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.
  • (v. t.) To change for the better; to remedy.
  • (v. t.) To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?
  • (v. t.) To forbear; to avoid.
  • (v. t.) To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.
  • (v. i.) To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
  • (v. t.) Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.
  • (v. t.) Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.
  • (v. t.) A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (3) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (4) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (5) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (6) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
  • (7) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (8) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (9) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
  • (10) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
  • (11) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
  • (12) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (13) Cryopreserved autologous blood cells may thus restore some patients with CGL in transformation to chronic-phase disease and so may help to prolong life.
  • (14) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (15) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (16) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
  • (17) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
  • (18) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (19) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (20) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.

Pit


Definition:

  • (n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
  • (n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
  • (n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.
  • (n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
  • (n.) Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
  • (n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
  • (n.) A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
  • (n.) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
  • (n.) See Pit of the stomach (below).
  • (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
  • (n.) Formerly, that part of a theater, 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 theater.
  • (n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
  • (n.) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
  • (n.) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
  • (v. t.) To place or put into a pit or hole.
  • (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
  • (v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
  • (2) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
  • (3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
  • (4) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
  • (5) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
  • (6) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
  • (7) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.
  • (8) A cell with a large Golgi apparatus and associated cytoplasmic granules resembles the pit cell described in the liver of a few other vertebrates.
  • (9) Pitting corrosion was seen on low-resistant Ni-Cr alloys, which had less Cr content.
  • (10) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (11) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
  • (12) Freeze fracture analysis confirmed the integrity of the tight junctions as well as increased numbers of vesicles or pits along the lateral cell membrane, indicating increased endocytotic activity.
  • (13) Likewise, the cost of emptying these pits can be high.
  • (14) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
  • (15) Hypertrophic fibrous astrocytes were common in chronic active lesions, were capable of myelin degradation and on occasion, contained myelin debris attached to clathrin-coated pits.
  • (16) A mother and daughter both presented at age 5 years with the triad of right-sided congenital cholesteatoma, right preauricular pits, and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
  • (17) In addition, the perfusion method in this experiment suggested the possibility of distinguishing pinocytotic vesicles from pits of cell membranes.
  • (18) Performance pay pitting teachers against each other just does not work - we are not in favour of that,” Merlino said.
  • (19) Both larval stages had an inner circle of 6 labial papillae, an outer circle of 6 labial papillae and 4 somatic papillae, and lateral amphidial pits.
  • (20) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.