(n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
(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.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(2) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(3) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(4) Pitch forward head movements exerted the strongest effect.
(5) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(6) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
(7) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(8) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(9) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
(10) Recent STM studies of calf thymus DNA and poly(rA).poly(rU) have shown that the helical pitch and periodic alternation of major and minor grooves can be visualized and reliably measured.
(11) 11.10pm BST Apart from the stumbles in the sales pitch, it's still not clear how the Abbott government will secure most of its budget.
(12) The living wage needs to be pitched at a higher level than Osborne has suggested and paid for by increased productivity.
(13) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(14) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
(15) While numerous studies on infant perception have demonstrated the infant's ability to discriminate sounds having different frequencies, little research has evaluated more sophisticated pitch perception abilities such as perceptual constancy and perception of the missing fundamental.
(16) The club train on a council-owned facility and so, when the pitches are not playable or there are other things on, they sometimes have to look elsewhere to stage their sessions.
(17) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(18) The cavernous studio will play host to a half-sized football pitch, where pundits will demonstrate what players did or didn't do correctly and there are other technological innovations planned that marry broadband interactivity with live coverage.
(19) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(20) He is helped by constituency boundaries that skew the pitch in Labour’s favour, but even then the leap required looks improbable.
Slider
Definition:
(a.) See Slidder.
(n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
Example Sentences:
(1) To address whether temperature and estrogen are biologically equivalent, two experiments were conducted with the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta.
(2) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(3) The righty deals to Descalso and strikes him out on six pitches - a slider.
(4) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(5) 5.53pm GMT Just seven more sliders to slide in the men’s singles luge.
(6) Cell Slider Photograph: CRUK Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.
(7) Then Martinez is hit by a slider that barely grazes V-Mart putting him at first with two outs.
(8) Three patients (14%) showed evidence of fixator binding, and another four (18%) had less than predicted slider excursions.
(9) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(10) Martinez throws a backdoor slider that goes to the very very back of Victorino!
(11) Jackson throws a nastier slider right in the dirt that makes Freese looks foolish.
(12) 1.56am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st Carlos Beltran is next, and he looks at strike three for the second out - a slider away.
(13) These are respectively a four jack system, a serrated wedge system, a spherical alignment system and a serrated slider.
(14) Jackson fouls off a slider that he probably would want back.
(15) But a large chunk of the £3.4m poured into the sport over four years goes on transporting the team around the world and technology to video the various tracks, which is then analysed and learned off by heart by the sliders.
(16) He's one of those CEOs who believes in rewarding his staff, who get £6.90 an hour (which buys you 30 Chicken Zingy Sliders and a tub of Reduced Fat Coleslaw), and seem to stay with the firm for years, which must mean something.
(17) The Rockies were completely stymied by the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, who had all of his pitches working on Wednesday – fastball, curveball, change up and a slider, one that finished the Rockies for the night and set off a celebration.
(18) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(19) He finished off the big swinging team from Colorado with ease, Corey Dickerson no match for his final pitch, a slider he swung through for strike three.
(20) Coke throws a slider, but it's out of the zone and Belt didn't offer.