I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bottomless pit (= a supply with no limits )
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The government does not have a bottomless pit of money to spend on public services.
gravel pit (= a place where gravel is dug out of the ground )
mosh pit
orchestra pit
pit bull terrier
pit pony
pit stop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bottomless
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You both are doomed to the bottomless pits of hell.
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You've got to go down into this bottomless pit before you can pick yourself up again.
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But somebody ought to tell the filmmakers, who are churning out movies as if demand were a bottomless pit .
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It is because pleasure-seeking is a bottomless pit , never satisfied.
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Her sleep was black and absolute, as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit .
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Thus, pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury, in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales.
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And then, suddenly, an open door with a dark, bottomless pit behind it.
dark
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It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit .
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Then - jump into the deep dark pit , Beano.
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Then the trigger as you pull it, then the pellet punching a dark red pit in the rabbit's neck.
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At first he will be greatly praised by his people, before sinking down into the dark pit of sin and pride.
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And then, suddenly, an open door with a dark , bottomless pit behind it.
deep
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Then - jump into the deep dark pit , Beano.
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At the distillery, workers mash agave plants with a huge grindstone drawn around a deep circular pit by an ancient tractor.
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But open-cast mine workforces, unlike deep-pit miners, are mobile rather than drawn from local residents.
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Digging deep pits and building privies.
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Buildings were hastily demolished, and ironwork likely to be of use to the natives was buried in a deep pit .
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The landfill managers identified a 10-foot-\#deep pit 50 feet by 50 feet they believed was where the trash was dumped.
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Eventually she would climb out of the deep pit of the subconscious, exhausted.
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From its floor rose several lava pillars; eroded, contorted shapes brooding in the deep pit .
large
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Some areas appear to be relatively young, with few craters, while other areas are pocked with large craters and pits .
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It was associated with large waterlogged pits which contained leather offcuts, dung and other organic residues.
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Cerrejon is the second largest open pit coal mine in the world.
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A large pit containing over 50 unbroken mid-Antonine samian vessels might well be taken to indicate a pottery shop nearby.
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Advantage: the closet is larger than a pit and therefore lasts longer also it is easy to empty.
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Why did these large pits near the coast not exist in the last century?
open
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Left: Potgietersrus Platinums, the 200,000 ton a month open pit platinum mine was opened on 3 September 1993.
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Parys - discovered in 1768 and worked in a Mountain series of open pits and underground mines.
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Twisted, starved, naked bodies stacked up like cordwood or tossed into great open pits .
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Chromium Chromite has been produced from numerous small open pit workings on Unst in Shetland.
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Cerrejon is the second largest open pit coal mine in the world.
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This is hosed down from the sides of the open pits .
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The near-vertical deposit has been drilled to 300 m depth and could be worked in an open pit .
small
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Chromium Chromite has been produced from numerous small open pit workings on Unst in Shetland.
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Suspended from a length of string hung over a chair placed beside the small pit was a piece of card.
■ NOUN
bull
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Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers.
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He could check it, he supposed, with the new super, a tough-talking veteran with a pit bull .
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High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.
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Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.
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Statistically in San Francisco, pit bulls are over-represented in attacks on people, according to animal control officials.
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Animal advocates strongly oppose the practice of denying insurance to owners of pit bulls and Rottweilers.
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Do you own a pit bull ?
closure
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The firm is centralising production in Lancashire, and staff are blaming the job losses on the Government's pit closure programme.
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He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced.
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These ravenous companies claim to provide jobs to communities starved of employment following the pit closures .
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Occupancy at Pontins dropped 13% and bookings dipped after pit closures were announced.
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The breakaway union is balloting its members for a one-day token strike in protest over the amended pit closure plans.
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Barr Thomson blamed the Government's pit closure announcement for its failure.
gravel
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Some men pinched all the wages at the gravel pit .
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Hand carts and horsedrawn carts wait to carry away building supplies brought from the gravel pits of Middlesex.
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Not simply on Tring Reservoirs or the home counties gravel pits do men now sit for a ten pounder anymore.
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The money he had stolen from the gravel pits reposed under his bunk in the houseboat.
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Wet gravel pits are generally recognised as important habitats for wildlife, particularly in view of the increasing drainage of wetlands.
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He crossed the road and went into the gravel pit .
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A gravel pit search by divers was put off yesterday as experts continued checking the area.
inspection
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The inspection pit and work bench.
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Below: The interior of the depot, with its five inspection pits and single-span roof.
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The remains of the old Motherwell car are lying in the inspection pit underneath! 3.
lane
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His misery was compounded when he was fined for speeding in the pit lane .
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The pit lane , though, reckons Red 5 will return.
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But a pit lane full of Longines-Olivetti computer gear and Desert Storm-style motor-homes has reduced the role of these companions.
orchestra
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He came out on stage and called them all down to the orchestra pit right in front of him.
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But there are certain dizzy overtones to her narrative -- she only fell drunk into the orchestra pit once.
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There in the hidden orchestra pit sat Fein, less gray, and happy to be working.
sand
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Many schools are fortunate to have an outside sand pit as well.
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Now suppose we ask Professor Summerlee, after a particular landing in the sand pit , what he has just experienced.
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It appears that there has been some misunderstanding with regard to the sand pit cover. 3.
stop
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Having reached Aulef and taken on water, that night was a pit stop .
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Zanardi opened up a four-second gap over second-place Brian Herta, which Herta made up with a good pit stop .
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But three factors suggest their stumbling Christmas represents a pit stop rather than the wheels coming off altogether.
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The mistake was the result of an earlier pit stop in which his crew failed to fill his Chevrolet with enough gasoline.
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McVeighty gambled on going the complete four laps on one tankful of petrol, while Bell made one pit stop .
village
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They could be responsible for managing services covering 4,000 households, a large inner city estate or several former pit villages .
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I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father.
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There are a lot of fields, then a pit village , a pit tip and another dozen fields.
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The farmland remained but pit villages , with rows of terraced houses for the miners, were scattered throughout the region.
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I live in Glyn-Neath, West Glamorgan, an old pit village with huge unemployment.
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Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today, and ask where the people's ancestors came from.
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Horden is a former pit village , and proud of it, in East Durham.
■ VERB
close
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The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses.
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The market says close the pits .
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The White Paper proposes closing just 12 pits , as opposed to the 31 originally scheduled, with a further six to be mothballed.
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Decisions were made to close the Rin pit late in 1983 and other closures are believed to have been planned.
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Even when the Government have closed the pits , their vendetta against our communities continues.
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It will cost a lot of money to close pits down, dismantle the sites etc.
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The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks.
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In the short term, two of the 21 pits under the Government review - Bolsover and Sharlston - will close .
dig
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Some people ask how much coal will be dug or how many pits will be open by the year 2000.
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Elsewhere, as Wallace recorded, they dig their pits in the hot sand.
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To survive is to dig into the pit of your own resources over and over again.
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Teams of contractors dig the pits for farmers.
fall
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To an extent educationalists have fallen into a pit of their own making.
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It is easier to fall into a pit than to get out again, and the prospects in Sri Lanka are grim.
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Agnes thought that rules like ` Don't fall into this huge pit of spikes' were there for a purpose.
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He would fall into a pit , he would descend to hell.
save
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That cross-party committee urged a multi-million pound subsidy and other measures to save half of the pits earmarked for closure last October.
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But, he admitted yesterday that there were only two ways to save the pits - government subsidies or higher electricity prices.
throw
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Awa and Nana are accused of killing the baby either by magic, or by throwing it into a pit .
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So it is with the young prospects we throw into the pits of the courtroom.
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Then her head was struck off and fixed on gallows and her body thrown into the pit .
work
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There is also work at the modern pit at Kellingley or the new Snaith pit.
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Thousands left Swaledale to work in the pits of Durham and the mills of Lancashire.
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The near-vertical deposit has been drilled to 300 m depth and could be worked in an open pit .
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Even first-team players had odd jobs and reserves often worked shifts at the pit or elsewhere.
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Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ?
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David Park had been born and reared in New Cumnock and had worked in the pits in the area.
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I get tired but you get more tired working down the pit .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a pit stop
pit your wits against sb
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Jill and Oz will pit their wits against each other, as they try to identify mystery wines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gravel pit
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Eric's house is a total pit .
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Many of the victims were buried in large pits.
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There are tiny scratches and pits on the windshield.
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They found a large pit where all the dead bodies had been thrown.
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We dug a pit a yard deep in the soil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But somebody ought to tell the filmmakers, who are churning out movies as if demand were a bottomless pit .
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Every military camp has a pit , where prisoners are held.
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It was another plastic bag of clothes from the clunch pit murder.
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S., methods by which operas hire pit orchestras vary.
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The dis-used brick pit has been a tip for 10 years and will continue as one for 30 more.
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The opera needs the players for its pit orchestra.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wit
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Jill and Oz will pit their wits against each other, as they try to identify mystery wines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Andretti pitted with 16 laps left.
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The street was pitted with potholes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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CO2 pellets do not pit or cut the surface they are cleaning.
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Colors of the rainbow sparkled in the spray, the ground was less pitted and dusty.
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Leaders and managers who are trying to speed up the pace of change in their organizations will find themselves pitted against job-mindedness.
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Never in this century has the fight for the presidency pitted a congressional monarch against an incumbent president.
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She was still quite ready for anything the Union chose to pit a gains her.
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Stainless steel cutlery Can discolour and pit if left coated with food, so use the pre-wash cycle.
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You could also add drained, pitted canned cherries.