'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Also, Not!Emily and today's lady friend have decided to have dinner in here, chatting and eating while I work on my paper. Now, this is the living room, and he has every right to it. But as he didn't mention it at all, I'M NOT MOVING.
Edited: They're having dinner in here. Not in me.
Emily - from Thesaurus.com
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Ditches? Crevices? Elephant-traps?
Wolfram cheated with the thesaurus. Though I like "divots."
It has to be a man-made excavation. With corners. Essentially, it's something the volume of which one could figure out with high school geometry.
Wolfram cheated with the thesaurus.
Hey! It's not cheating if you cite - it's RESEARCH.
It has to be a man-made excavation. With corners.
Basement.
Perhaps some content would help. Brahmagupta's 7th-century astronomical work contains a chapter on arithmetic, one section of which concerns what he calls "excavation" -- he gives rules as to how to find, essentially, the volume of these... excavations. And I want to say, "the section on excavations, which essentially concerns the three-dimensional geometry of... holes in the ground" only without the "holes in the ground" part.
I stand by elephant trap.
Pit.