Bogie
(n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track. |
Centre
(v. i.) To be placed in a center |
Centre
(v. i.) To be collected to a point |
Centre
(v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point. |
Centre
(v. t.) To collect to a point |
Centre
(v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center. |
Centre
(n. & v.) See Center. |
Distance
(n.) The space between two objects |
Distance
(n.) Remoteness of place |
Distance
(n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course. |
Distance
(n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear |
Distance
(n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing. |
Distance
(n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape. |
Distance
(n.) Ideal disjunction |
Distance
(n.) Length or interval of time |
Distance
(n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires |
Distance
(n.) A withholding of intimacy |
Distance
(n.) Remoteness in succession or relation |
Distance
(n.) The interval between two notes |
Distance
(v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely. |
Distance
(v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance |
Distance
(v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3) |
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. |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
| 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 |
| pivot shot | a one-handed basketball shot made while whirling on the pivot foot |
| lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
| pivot | the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot, the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot |
| 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 |
bogy
bogie
bogey | an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
call center
call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
center
centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity, they were raising money to build a new center for research |
center bit
centre bit | a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
pivot
pin | axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns |
plaza mall center shopping mall
shopping center
shopping centre | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area, a modern version of the traditional marketplace, a good plaza should have a movie house, they spent their weekends at the local malls |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
| variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
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 |
dead center
dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
| distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
| mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance
focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
| hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
center of curvature
centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
| distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
| skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
center
centre
nerve center
nerve centre | a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process, in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere |
pivot joint
rotary joint
rotatory joint
articulatio trochoidea | a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation, the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint |
| distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |