Dark
(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light |
Dark
(a.) Not clear to the understanding |
Dark
(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture |
Dark
(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character |
Dark
(a.) Foreboding evil |
Dark
(a.) Deprived of sight |
Dark
(n.) Absence of light |
Dark
(n.) The condition of ignorance |
Dark
(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like |
Dark
(v. t.) To darken to obscure. |
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. |
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 |
| dark adaptation | the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination, cones adapt first, rods continue to adapt for up to four hours |
| 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 |
dark ground illumination
dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
dark-eyed junco
slateolored junco
Junco hyemalis | common North American junco having grey plumage and eyes with dark brown irises |
| dark horse | a racehorse about which little is known |
dark lantern
bull's-eye | a lantern with a single opening and a sliding panel that can be closed to conceal the light |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
sunglasses
dark glasses
shades | spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun, he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades |
ultramicroscope
dark-field microscope | light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes |
| 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 |
| dark red | a red color that reflects little light |
dark blue
navy
navy blue | a dark shade of blue |
| 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 |
dark
darkness | an unenlightened state, he was in the dark concerning their intentions, his lectures dispelled the darkness |
| dark comedy | a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor, a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements |
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 |
bittersweet chocolate
semi-sweet chocolate
dark chocolate | chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla, lecithin is usually added |
| dark meat | the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food |
dark bread
whole wheat bread
whole meal bread
brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
| 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 |
darkness
dark
shadow | an unilluminated area, he moved off into the darkness |
| dark horse | a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly |
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 |
dark
darkness | absence of light or illumination |
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 |
iniquity
wickedness
darkness dark | absence of moral or spiritual values, the powers of darkness |
| dark matter | (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make uppercent of the universe, it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force |
| asphalt mineral pitch | a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation, consists mainly of hydrocarbons |
pitch
tar | any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue |
night
nighttime
dark | the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside |
Middle Ages
Dark Ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance |