Counter-roll
(n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
Direction
(n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering |
Direction
(n.) That which is imposed by directing |
Direction
(n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent |
Direction
(n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing |
Direction
(n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise |
Direction
(n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis |
Flight
(n.) The act or flying |
Flight
(n.) The act of fleeing |
Flight
(n.) Lofty elevation and excursion |
Flight
(n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together |
Flight
(n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. |
Flight
(n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow |
Flight
(n.) The husk or glume of oats. |
Flight-shot
(n.) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot |
Perpendicular
(a.) Exactly upright or vertical |
Perpendicular
(a.) At right angles to a given line or surface |
Perpendicular
(n.) A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon |
Perpendicular
(n.) A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side. |
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. |
Ragman's roll
() The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. |
Roll
(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over |
Roll
(n.) To wrap round on itself |
| record track record | the sum of recognized accomplishments, the lawyer has a good record, the track record shows that he will be a good president |
escape
flight | the act of escaping physically, he made his escape from the mental hospital, the canary escaped from its cage, his flight was an indication of his guilt |
| track record | the fastest time ever recorded for a specific distance at a particular racetrack, the track record for the mile and a half at Belmont is minutes seconds held by Secretariat since |
| roll bowl | the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) |
| 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 |
| roll | a flight maneuver, aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude |
| barrel roll | a roll in which the plane follows a spiral course |
| snap roll | a fast roll |
flight maneuver
airplane maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft |
| fast track | a rapid means of achieving a goal, they saw independence as the fast track to democracy, he took a fast track to the top of the corporate ladder, the company went off the fast track when the stock market dropped |
| roll | walking with a swaying gait |
| flight | a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports, I took the noon flight to Chicago |
| connecting flight | a flight with an intermediate stop and a change of aircraft (possibly a change of airlines) |
| direct flight | a flight with one or more intermediate stops but no change of aircraft |
| domestic flight | a flight that begins and ends in the same country |
| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
nonstop flight
nonstop | a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination, how many nonstops are there to Dallas? |
redeye
redeye flight | a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep, he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning |
flight
flying | an instance of traveling by air, flying was still an exciting adventure for him |
| maiden flight | the first flight of its kind, the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in |
terrain flight
low level flight | flight at very low altitudes |
swing
swinging
vacillation | changing location by moving back and forth |
| lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
change of direction
reorientation | the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented |
rock
careen
sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
| track and field | participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it |
track
running | the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track |
| pitch auction pitch | an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump |
| swing | a square dance figure, a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them |
baseball swing
swing cut | in baseball, a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball, he took a vicious cut at the ball |
golf stroke
golf shot
swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
| pitch pitch shot | a high approach shot in golf |
| flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
steering
guidance
direction | the act of setting and holding a course, a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
| roll call | calling out an official list of names |
management
direction | the act of managing something, he was given overall management of the program, is the direction of the economy a function of government? |
| swing | a sweeping blow or stroke, he took a wild swing at my head |
| cast roll | the act of throwing dice |
flight feather
pinion quill quill feather | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
airstrip
flight strip
landing strip
strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
artificial horizon
gyro horizon
flight indicator | a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope, it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot |
branch line
spur track
spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
| cinder track | a racetrack paved with fine cinders |
| direction finder | radio, determines the direction of incoming radio waves |