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pit
Noun
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A pit is a big hole in the ground.
Don't fall in the pit!
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A pit is a large seed such as that in a peach.
The peach pit is hard. Don't bite it.
pit
Verb
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If something is pitted, it is marked with little hollows.
The metal is pitted due to the exposure to acid rain.
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If you pit something, you remove the seed from a fruit.
Please pit the cherries before giving it to the children.
volume
Noun
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The volume of sound or music is how loud it is.
Teens listening to their MP3 players at high volume can damage their hearing.
Hey! Turn down the volume. It's too loud.
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The volume of something is the amount of it.
The traffic volume on Ontario highways jumped 12% last year.
The story usually experiences a high customer volume around Christmas.
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The volume of a material or a container is the amount of space it takes.
The volume of water of a typical shower is about 43 litres.
Use of newer cars can reduce the volume of COsubmath2/math/sub produced.
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A volume is a book, magazine, or other printed material, usually part of a series.
He has published a second volume of autobiography, in which he deals with his years as a student.
The research can be found in the most recent volume of The Canadian Journal of Language and Linguistics.