Key tone
() See Keynote. |
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. |
Tone
(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character |
Tone
(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. |
Tone
(n.) A whining style of speaking |
Tone
(n.) A sound considered as to pitch |
Tone
(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat |
Tone
(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument |
Tone
(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant |
Tone
(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. |
Tone
(n.) Tonicity |
Tone
(n.) State of mind |
Tone
(n.) Tenor |
Tone
(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low |
Tone
(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting |
Tone
(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone. |
Tone
(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to |
Tone
(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment. |
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 |
| release tone ending | (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone |
| attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
| 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 |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
tone arm
pickup pickup arm | mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge |
| variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
shade
tint
tincture
tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color, after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted |
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 |
| tone | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages, the Beijing dialect uses four tones |
timbre
timber
quality tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound), the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely, the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet |
pitch rake
slant | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane, the roof had a steep pitch |
head register
head voice
head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
chest register
chest voice
chest tone | the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing |
| tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author, the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw, from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome |
absolute pitch
perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
tone
pure tone | a steady sound without overtones, they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies |
overtone
partial partial tone | a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency |
subtonic
leading tone | (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale |
tone
whole tone
step
whole step | a musical interval of two semitones |
quarter tone
quarter-tone | half of a semitone |
note musical note
tone | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound, the singer held the note too long |
passing note
passing tone | a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes |
tone language
tonal language | a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings |
symphonic poem
tone poem | an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales |
twelve-tone music
-tone music
twelve-tone system
-tone system | a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg, uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row) |
| tone tone of voice | the quality of a person's voice, he began in a conversational tone, he spoke in a nervous tone of voice |
intonation
modulation pitch contour | rise and fall of the voice pitch |
tonic accent
pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness |
tone system
tonal system | the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language |
sales talk
sales pitch
pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
| 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 |
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 |
total darkness
lightlessness
blackness
pitch blackness
black | total absence of light, they fumbled around in total darkness, in the black of night |
| fever pitch | a state of extreme excitement, the crowd was at fever pitch |
spirit
tone feel
feeling
flavor
flavour
look
smell | the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people, the feel of the city excited him, a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting, it had the smell of treason |
tonicity
tonus
tone | the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli, the doctor tested my tonicity |