Counter-roll
(n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
Gyroscopic
(a.) Pertaining to the gyroscope |
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. |
Recorder
(n.) One who records |
Recorder
(n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs |
Recorder
(n.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. |
Roll
(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over |
Roll
(n.) To wrap round on itself |
Roll
(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage |
Roll
(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling |
Roll
(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words |
Roll
(n.) To press or level with a roller |
Roll
(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. |
Roll
(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum |
Roll
(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping |
Roll
(n.) To turn over in one's mind |
Roll
(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding |
Roll
(v. i.) To move on wheels |
Roll
(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball |
Roll
(v. i.) To fall or tumble |
Roll
(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution |
Roll
(v. i.) To turn |
| 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 |
| roll | walking with a swaying gait |
| 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 |
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 |
| cast roll | the act of throwing dice |
| cassette recorder | a recorder for recording or playing cassettes |
fipple flute
fipple pipe
recorder
vertical flute | a tubular wind instrument with finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece |
flageolet
treble recorder
shepherd's pipe | a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes |
| magnetic recorder | recorder consisting of equipment for making records on magnetic media |
| multichannel recorder | a recorder with two or more channels, makes continuous records of two or more signals simultaneously |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
recorder recording equipment
recording machine | equipment for making records |
| roll | anything rolled up in cylindrical form |
| roll | photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light |
| roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
roll of tobacco
smoke | tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder |
| roll-on | a woman's foundation garment rolled on to the hips |
| roll-on | a dispenser of a liquid cosmetic (such as a deodorant) having a revolving ball as an applicator |
| roll-on roll-off | a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination |
tape recorder
tape machine | a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape |
| variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
videocassette recorder
VCR | a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs |
| wire recorder | an early type of magnetic recorder using iron wire |
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 |
scroll
roll | a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) |
roll
roster | a list of names, his name was struck off the rolls |
| muster roll | a list of names of officers and men in a military unit or ship's company |
| church roll | a list of the members of church |
rock 'n' roll
rock'n'roll
rock-andoll
rock and roll
rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
intonation
modulation pitch contour | rise and fall of the voice pitch |
tonic accent
pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness |
sales talk
sales pitch
pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |