(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.
Pitman
Definition:
(n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
(n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brett Pitman was flagged offside when he finally found the net for Bournemouth in the closing minutes, which Paul Ince had to watch from the stands after the bottle he threw bounced into the crowd.
(2) Statistical analysis (by Pitman randomization test) indicated that the adhesion was significantly higher (p = 0.0003) than that of normal platelets to VEC.
(3) Dogs and mice were immunized with either a rabies glycoprotein subunit vaccine incorporated into an immune stimulating complex (ISCOM) or a commercial human diploid cell vaccine (HDCV) prepared from a Pitman Moore (PM) rabies vaccine strain.
(4) The rabies virus specificity of the T cell clones was established by virus-specific proliferation in response to the rabies virus Pitman-Moore strain (PM) produced in three different cell substrates.
(5) The differences between the mining noise-deafness and the typical noise-induced hearing loss are explained by an additional baro-trauma which occurs, when the pitmans work at a depth of about 2000 feet.
(6) Single radial-immunodiffusion values for Pitman-Moore vaccines correlated with the manufacturers' NIH potency assay, but required a mathematical transformation to convert values from one assay to the other.
(7) Any research that helps us better understand them is beneficial.” Pitman, one of eight scientists who worked on the study, said more research was needed.
(8) The glycoprotein content of rabies vaccines containing the Pitman-Moore strain of rabies virus was measured by the single radial immunodiffusion assay and correlated with vaccine potency.
(9) Although the mean haemoglobin values were similar, capillary samples were significantly less repeatable than venous or arterial samples (Pitman test, P < 0.001).
(10) Nathan Delfouneso did grab a consolation for Blackpool on 65 minutes but goals by Brett Pitman, from the penalty spot, Marc Pugh and Harry Arter ensured a comfortable afternoon for the visitors.
(11) The technique, using a Pitman 235N counter is described.
(12) Our experience with a dermal patch graft urethroplasty is presented in 10 Pitman-Moore minipigs.
(13) Two fixed rabies virus strains, SAD-Vnukovo and Pitman-Moore (PM) were used as combined immunogens for the generation of hybridomas secreting specific monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs).
(14) CSIRO scientists will bear the brunt of funding cuts, analysis shows Read more Andy Pitman, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales, questioned whether the nature of climate change had been fully understood.
(15) "It must have been a shock to them that he married out, and they were so nice to me that I went off like a good girl and did my Pitmans."
(16) The news comes after allegations that the ITV board is split over how the broadcaster should go forward, and that Burt has found himself ranged against Sir George Russell and banker Sir Brian Pitman over the issue.
(17) In the Daily Express he even featured in a series, The Hate Makers, penned by a then prominent rightwing journalist, Robert Pitman.
(18) To obtain further evidence for an intralobular nerve supply the methods of cobalt and Procion Yellow nerve staining (Stretton and Kravitz, 1968; Iles and Mulloney, 1971; Pitman, Tweedle and Cohen, 1972) were adapted, iontophoretic introduction of the dyes being attempted through cut axonal ends in the surface of small excised blocks of rat liver.
(19) Rabies vaccine derived from human diploid cells (Wyeth, Merieux) and the duck embryo vaccine Lyssavac Berna are prepared from beta-propiolactone-inactivated Pitman-Moore vaccine virus strain.
(20) Using the Pitman efficiency of Miettinen's test relative to McNemar's test, Schlesselman and Stolley (Case-control studies: design, conduct, analysis.