pitted

PITTED : Small indentations appearing as black dots on finished surfaces of any piece of product; undesirable surface defects.

The recuperator tube of ammonia condenser on a factory was made of 316L stainless steel and pitted after used for only one year.

Bigger felt that he was caught up in a vast but delicate machine whose wheels would whirl no matter what was pitted against them.

The New York Times said the demonstrations pitted "thugs firing bullets" against "protesters firing tweets" .

Uruguay has voted in elections which pitted a left-wing ex-guerrilla leader against a former president - and the result too close to call.

PS: The really significant thing was that on the free lap after Fernando pitted, Michael showed he had some performance in reserve.

The pitted and frosted surface of these grains is typical of desert sand, where grains constantly collide with one another.

Even through the road was littered with boulders and pitted with holes, Bruce was not in the least perturbed.

On stripping down a damaged motor, the tappets are invariably found to be heavily pitted and bits of metal broken off the camshaft lobes.

His face was of a good open expression, but sunburnt very dark, and heavily freckled and pitted with the small-pox.

The immutable clan lines that have pitted Somalis against one another for decades are not a problem here.

This unusual confluence of events has created a near-perfect study in what happens when minority groups are pitted against one another.

It transpired that the two Aguri drivers did not touch on lap 10, when both pitted .

The front of his truck was pitted by stones.

But outsiders are discouraged from scoring in a game that has pitted the town's south and north sides since the 12th century.

Even though the road waslittered with boulders and pitted with holes, Bruce was not in the least perturbed.

Perianth with a more developed transverse wing; seed obscurely pitted.

But with a diffuse network of Sunni guerrillas pitted against equally disorganised Shia militias, nobody has the authority to deliver.

When this pitted material absorbs heat, it radiates energy at precisely chosen wavelengths depending on the size of the pits.

The surface of the wood was pitted with holes made by insects.

Along the reefs dotting Fiji, overfishing has pitted corals against algae in a battle royale.

When pitted against Republican candidates in polls, he scores better than the other Democratic front-runners.

On the first round they were pitted against the leaders, two women they had never played before.

The narrow unpaved road was bumpy and pitted. It was swallowed up by massive, intimidating logging trucks that blasted their horns at us.

Public institutions pitted themselves against private collectors and trade, driving prices over estimate in many instances.

Geonosians of lower-caste are often pitted against other Geonosians, other sentients, or savage creatures in immense gladiatorial arenas.

If the nail surface is rippled or pitted, this may be an early sign of psoriasis or inflammatory arthritis.

The dispute has pitted the EU against the United States, Argentina and Canada.

For a historical perspective, teams from each player's fifth professional season were pitted against each other.

That has pitted Europe's retailers against some of its manufacturers.

Acid had pitted the surface of the silver.

In the '60s, work was pitted against leisure, work was the trap your parents were in.

The case has pitted traditional morality against international casino capitalism.

A level bite is not a fault. Pitted teeth from distemper or allied infections are not penalized.

Janet: Yeah, I love watching the games. The best athletes from each country, pitted against each other in competition, it's so exciting!

Pitted against a player who gets everything back, Berdych attacked the short ball relentlessly but his error count rose sharply.

In a final study experimenters pitted people's dreams up against their religious beliefs.

Anakin pitted his racing talents against the undefeated champion, Sebulba.

Leaf blade margin entire or with obscure, lateral lobes; perianth segments narrowly obovate to linear; seed pitted.

Boxing's beginnings in America go back to slave days, when plantation owners pitted slaves against one another and wagered on the outcomes.

For the past 18 months, banks have been pitted against clients in legal disputes over the financing of wayward deals.

Manchester United club secretary Ken Ramsden was happy with today's Champions League draw that sees them pitted against Roma.

Propeller blades pitted seriously due to cavitation erosion.

That will be frustrating for Brazil, once aligned with China in the "currency war" but increasingly pitted against it.

Seeds in two rows per locule, brown to dark brown, 1. 3-2 mm, irregularly pitted, up to ca. 50% abortive.

In Taiwan, the legalization debate has pitted women's rights groups against workers' rights groups.

The Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 pitted Napoleon against the Duke of Wellington and his allies.

The material injected serves to raise the skin, and reduce the pitted appearance, and wrinkling from the scar.

In 2008, those tensions flared in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, during deadly rioting that pitted local residents against ethnic Han migrants.

Pitted against Japan, Vietnam and Chinese Taipei in Group A, they opened their account with a measly 2-0 win over Chinese Taipei.

The rise of ethanol has pitted livestock producers against the oil industry.

He mobilised Thailand's rural poor and created a movement that has pitted them against an entrenched elite.

I soon learned that these grasslands are pitted with marmot holes which can break a galloping horse's leg .

When Lizzie smiled, Paige suddenly noticed her upper front teeth were pitted with holes.

Pitted against these odds are the facts that the new model is more natural in the way it manages the data.

If your tonsils are too wide and pitted, a cheese-like smelly substance collects in these holes.

Another sign of ice is the presence of parallel lines and pitted material on the crater floor.

Seeds 2 per valve, yellow-brown, radiate striate, finely white reticulate, neither pitted nor verrucose.

A small lightly pitted area in the glass surface having a dull grayish appearance.

The issue of water supply pitted farmers against environmentalists.

stigmas capitate. Achenes included in persistent perianth, black, opaque, ovoid, trigonous or biconvex, 1-2 mm, finely glandular or pitted.

So when your soccer team is ranked 84th and pitted against the top-ranked team in the world, you just decide you're not going to play.

Kenya's roads, including arterial ones, are pitted with potholes.

Against all these, alone among an indifferent populace , they pitted their youthful hearts.

Seeds with pitted testa, black at maturity, enclosed in fleshy aril.

The shell plating in way was seriously corroded and densely pitted.

The final pitted two contrasting styles and in the end Li's power overwhelmed Schiavone's artful spins and sharp angles.

Now the barren river bed is pitted with cracks and subsidence holes.

I hate pimples. After they go away, my face is left with all these red-purple pitted scars.

The Crusades, a series of conflicts waged from 1095 to 1291, pitted Christian invaders against Muslims for control of the Holy Land.

Another experiment at Cal-Tech pitted five bottles of wine against each other.

Yet the road to certification as man's BFF has been long and pitted.

When the pit lane was open, almost everybody pitted together.

This works well for some people with deep-pitted scars.

The battle had pitted schools against jobs.

Dust produces otherworldly landscapes, such as distinctively pitted terrain.

He pitted on lap 16, just three before Massa and four laps before Raikkonen and Webber.

Fernando pitted two laps earlier than we had planned.

Capsule broadly oblong, trigonous, ca. 2. 5 mm, densely hirsutulous at apex. Seeds gray-brown, pitted.

a war that pitted brother against brother.

The ground was pitted by the heavy rain.

His forehead was pitted by chicken pox .

The danger is that bear markets are pitted with "suckers' rallies" that break investors' hearts.

If status is on the line, people try harder to win when they are pitted against lower-ranked opponents.

Their controlling has pitted their own customers against them, and they're losing the battle.

A surface pitted with craters.

She pitted with 14 laps to go, losing a lap in the process.

Seeds in two rows per locule, brown to nearly black, 1. 1-2 mm, irregularly pitted.

The army says 12, 000 of its troops are pitted against 5, 000 militants from a disparate mix of rival groups.

Ingredients: 300g Fish fillet, 10 Lychees (pitted), 1 Red sweet pepper, some Cornstarch.

A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.

Seed horizontal, black, sublustrous, lenticular, 1-1. 2 mm in diam. , finely pitted. Fl. and fr. Aug-Sep.

Seeds brown, reniform, ca. 1. 5 mm, pitted.

Leaf blade 2-lobed at base, rarely entire; achenes biconvex or trigonous, 1. 8-2 mm, finely pitted.

The election pitted former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, against bad-boy musician Michel Martelly, 50.

Seed black, sublustrous, depressed ovoid or lenticular, 1. 2-1. 5 mm in diam. , distinctly pitted.

On the lap we pitted, he did a lap of 1: 25. 7 - where his average speed in the ten previous laps, was 1: 27. 4.

Seeds 2 per valve, brown-yellow, semiellipsoid, 2--3 mm, flat on 1 surface, irregularly pitted, truncate at 1 end.

Bear markets are normally pitted with some vigorous rallies, as investors in Japan have discovered over the past 20 years.

This is a local variant with pitted sessile spikelets. Traces of pits also occur on some specimens of the species from Hong Kong.

Up to 80% of survivors were marked with deep pitted scars, mostly on the face

testa black-brown, crustaceous, distinctly foveolate pitted;

Seed horizontal or oblique, black, sublustrous, lenticular, ca. 2 mm in diam. , distinctly granular pitted, rim margin obtuse or acute;

you had cases in the civil war where brother was pitted against brother

Seeds brown, minute, foveolate to pitted, shiny;

He pitted his endurance against the other man's speed

Green Olives in Brine - Pitted

Seed vertical, black, ovoid, ca. 1. 2 mm, obscurely pitted, rim margin obtuse;

1 pound fresh tart red cherries, halved and pitted

The Lake Is Pitted With Peril