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UK
/pˈiːt/
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[ US /ˈpit/ ]
[ US /ˈpit/ ]
NOUN
- partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
How To Use peat In A Sentence
- Again wear rubber gloves and repeat the treatment until the wood can absorb no more.
- The camera zooms in on a book of sheets that each particpant holds, and each scene repeats a couple of times as a zoetrope would before the page turns and a new sequence begins. Leftfield and Looping « Squares of Wheat
- Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
- They do not strengthen their case by repeating their horror. Times, Sunday Times
- The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
- Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.
- The State Department contacted American embassies around the world to make sure that they repeated the line that it was an aberration and not in line with American ‘values.’
- He did not want a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat he had suffered.
- As the author repeatedly points out, the pornographic material he seized wasn't simply more explicit than 18-certificate films or top-shelf magazines.
- When the cupel shows signs of the presence of these metals in objectionable quantity, it is well to repeat the assay and scorify so as to remove them before cupellation. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.