Pitted

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pitted \Pit"ted\ (p[i^]t"t[e^]d), a.
     1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See {Pit}, v. t.,
        2.
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     2. (Bot.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the


        vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pit \Pit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pitting}.]
     1. To place or put into a pit or hole.
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              They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts,
              tumbled into the grave.               --T. Grander.
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     2. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a
        face pitted by smallpox.
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     3. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a
        contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pit
       n 1: a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to
            bury the body" [syn: {cavity}]
       2: a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical
          depression) [syn: {fossa}]
       3: 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" [syn: {stone}, {endocarp}]
       4: a trap in the form of a concealed hole [syn: {pitfall}]
       5: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a
          British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: {quarry},
          {stone pit}]
       6: lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra
          accompanies the performers [syn: {orchestra pit}]
       7: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings
          and equipment connected with it [syn: {colliery}]
       v 1: 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" [syn: {oppose}, {match}, {play off}]
       2: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face
          permanently" [syn: {scar}, {mark}, {pock}]
       3: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: {stone}]
       [also: {pitting}, {pitted}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pitted
       adj : pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: {alveolate},
              {faveolate}, {cavitied}, {honeycombed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pitted
       See {pit}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "pitted":
     alveolar, alveolate, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained,
     corroded, corrugated, cross-grained, defaced, dented, depressed,
     dimpled, engraved, eroded, faveolate, grainy, granulated, homespun,
     honeycombed, horripilant, indented, inequal, irregular, jolty,
     knobbed, linsey-woolsey, marred, nappy, notched, nubbly, nubby,
     perforated, pierced, pily, pimply, pocked, pockmarked, pocky,
     potholed, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained,
     rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, studded,
     textured, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined,
     unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled