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Pitch

[pɪtʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the action or manner of throwing something; 'his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor'.

(noun.) (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.

(noun.) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump.

(noun.) a high approach shot in golf.

(noun.) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.

(noun.) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; 'the roof had a steep pitch'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.

(verb.) set to a certain pitch; 'He pitched his voice very low'.

(verb.) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.

(verb.) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.

(verb.) erect and fasten; 'pitch a tent'.

(verb.) fall or plunge forward; 'She pitched over the railing of the balcony'.

整理:雪麗--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

(n.) See Pitchstone.

(n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.

(n.) Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

(v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

(v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

(v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

(v. t.) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

(v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value.

(v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

(v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

(v. i.) To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

(n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

(n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

(n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

(n.) Height; stature.

(n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

(n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

(n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

(n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

(n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular 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.

(n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.

贝拉編輯

同義詞及近義詞:

n. [1]. Degree of elevation.[2]. Degree, measure, extent, range, rate.[3]. (Mus.) Elevation of the key-note.

v. a. [1]. Throw, cast, fling, hurl, toss, launch, send, dart, lance, jaculate.[2]. Set (as a tent), fix, plant, place, station, locate, settle, establish.

v. n. Fall, plunge, throw one's self.

校對:威尔默

同義詞及反義詞:

SYN:Throw, fling, cast, hurl,[See FUNG]

卡米尔錄入

解釋/意思:

v.t. to thrust or fix in the ground: to fix or set in array: to fix the rate or price: to fling or throw: (mus.) to set the keynote of.—v.i. to settle as something pitched: to come to rest from flight: to fall headlong: to fix the choice: to encamp: to rise and fall as a ship.—n. a throw or cast from the hand: any point or degree of elevation or depression: degree: degree of slope: a descent: the height of a note in speaking or in music: (mech.) distance between the centres of two teeth in a wheel or a saw or between the threads of a screw measured parallel to the axis.—ns. Pitched′-batt′le a battle in which the contending parties have fixed positions: a battle previously arranged for on both sides; Pitch′er; Pitch′-far′thing chuck-farthing; Pitch′fork a fork for pitching hay &c.: a tuning-fork.—v.t. to lift with a pitchfork: to throw suddenly into any position.—ns. Pitch′ing the act of throwing: a facing of stone along a bank to protect against the action of water; Pitch′pipe a small pipe to pitch the voice or tune with.—Pitch and pay (Shak.) pay down at once pay ready-money; Pitch and toss a game in which coins are thrown at a mark the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins and keeping those which come down head uppermost; Pitch in to begin briskly; Pitch into to assault.

n. the solid black shining substance obtained by boiling down common tar.—v.t. to smear with pitch.—adjs. Pitch′-black Pitch′-dark dark as pitch: very dark.—ns. Pitch′-blende a black oxide of uranium; Pitch′-coal a kind of bituminous coal: jet; Pitch′iness state or quality of being pitchy; Pitch′-pine a kind of pine which yields pitch and is much used in America as fuel; Pitch′-plas′ter a plaster of Burgundy or white pitch; Pitch′-stone an old volcanic-like hardened pitch; Pitch′-tree the kauri pine the Amboyna pine or the Norway spruce.—adj. Pitch′y having the qualities of pitch: smeared with pitch: black like pitch: dark: dismal.

編輯:洛娜

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