| 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 |
| 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 |
| fixed intonation | the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer |
airplane propeller
airscrew
prop | a propeller that rotates to push against air |
double-prop
double-propeller plane
twin-prop
twin-propeller-plane | a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
propeller
propellor | a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water |
| propeller plane | an airplane that is driven by a propeller |
propjet
turboprop
turbo-propeller plane | an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine |
read-only memory
ROM
read-only storage
fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
| screw screw propeller | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air |
single prop
single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| fixed phagocyte | a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc. |
absolute pitch
perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
fixed-point notation
fixed-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
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 |
| 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 |
| fixed star | any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion |
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 |
fixed charge
fixed cost
fixed costs | a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.) |
nondiscretionary trust
fixed investment trust | an investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized |
| fixed-point number | a number represented in fixed-point notation |
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 |
| 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 |
fixed oil
fatty oil | nonvolatile animal or plant oil |
gear
pitch | set the level or character of, She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience |
| pitch | set to a certain pitch, He pitched his voice very low |