Definition of pitch

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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..

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Fork :: Fork (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil..
Pitch :: Pitch (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..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice..
Labor :: Labor (n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Underpight :: Underpight () imp. of Underpitch.
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Sea Legs :: Sea legs () Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea..
Tone :: Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones..
Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf.
Pitch :: Pitch (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..
Tough-pitch :: Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
Fight :: Fight (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours..
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) High in pitch; acute; as, a sharp note or tone..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Spitted :: Spitscocked (a.) Spitchcocked.
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room..
Grave :: Grave (v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose..
Sharp :: Sharp (v. i.) To sing above the proper pitch.
Screw :: Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis..
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