Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships |
Pitch (n.) See Pitchstone. |
Pitch (n.) To cover over or smear with pitch. |
Pitch (n.) Fig.: To darken |
Pitch (v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose |
Pitch (v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles |
Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. |
Pitch (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of |
Pitch (v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value. |
Pitch (v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation |
Pitch (v. i.) To light |
Pitch (v. i.) To fix one's choise |
Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall |
Pitch (n.) A throw |
Pitch (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. |
Pitch (n.) A point or peak |
Pitch (n.) Height |
Pitch (n.) A descent |
Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins |
Pitch (n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it |
Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. |
Pitch (n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line |
Pitch (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. |
Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. |
Pitch-black (a.) Black as pitch or tar. |
Pitch-dark (a.) Dark as a pitch |
Pitch-faced (a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges |
Pitch-ore (n.) Pitchblende. |
Standard (n.) A flag |
Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality |
Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent |
Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold |
Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
Standard (n.) The sheth of a plow. |
Standard (n.) A large drinking cup. |
Standard (a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment |
Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value |
Standard (a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall |
Standard (a.) Not of the dwarf kind |
Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. |
Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. |
Tough-pitch (n.) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. |
Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced |
pitch | the action or manner of throwing something, his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor |
pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
change-up change-of-pace change-of-pace ball off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
overhand pitch | a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder |
submarine ball submarine pitch | a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead |
wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
pitch auction pitch | an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump |
pitch pitch shot | a high approach shot in golf |
standing operating procedure standard operating procedure SOP standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
Clark cell Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
standard banner | any distinctive flag |
standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
pitch | the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration |
concert pitch philharmonic pitch international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
high pitch high frequency | a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches |
low pitch low frequency | a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches |
pitch rake slant | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane, the roof had a steep pitch |
absolute pitch perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
American Standard Version American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
double standard | an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another |
double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
standard generalized markup language SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
intonation modulation pitch contour | rise and fall of the voice pitch |
tonic accent pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness |
non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
sales talk sales pitch pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
standard criterion measure touchstone | a basis for comparison, a reference point against which other things can be evaluated, the schools comply with federal standards, they set the measure for all subsequent work |
procrustean standard procrustean rule procrustean bed | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality |
pitch | a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk), he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors |
color bearer standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |
pitch pine northern pitch pine Pinus rigida | large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, closely related to the pond pine |
longleaf pine pitch pine southern yellow pine Georgia pine Pinus palustris | large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs, bark is red-brown deeply ridged, an important timber tree |
pitch apple strangler fig Clusia rosea Clusia major | a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers |