pitch(2) (iou) and Nagari (iou)

pitch(2) (iou)

pitch noun2. L15.
[from PITCH verb2.]
I. An act of setting down or paying monies owed; a payment. Also, an act of pitching on or selecting something. rare. L15-L18.
An act of plunging head foremost; Nautical the forward plunge of a ship's head in a longitudinal direction. M18.
G. Macdonald Every roll and pitch of the vessel.
b. The action or an act of pitching (on the part of an aircraft or spacecraft about a lateral axis); the extent of such motion. E20.
angle of pitch the angle between the direction of the wind relative to an aircraft and the plane containing its horizontal axes.
Scientific American Shifting his weight to control the craft in pitch, roll and yaw.
a. = pitch-farthing s.v. PITCH verb2. Now dial. rare. M18.
b. A card-game derived from all fours. E20.
The action or an act of pitching or throwing something; spec. (a) Cricket the manner of delivery of the ball in bowling, esp. so as to strike the ground at a specified point or from a specified direction (freq. in pitch of the ball); the spot at which the ball bounces; (b) Baseball the action or an act of pitching the ball to a batter; a player's right or turn to do this; (c) Golf the action of hitting a lofted approach-shot with the ball running only a short distance on striking the ground; (more fully pitch shot) an instance of this. M19.
A. G. Steel The high-dropping full-pitch is an excellent ball. E. Baker It was the fastest pitch Chester had ever thrown. Times As a golfer..she can..play delightful little pitches.
a. A talk, a chat. arch. slang. L19.
R. Boldrewood Starlight and Jim were having a pitch about the best way to get aboard.
b. Behaviour or speech intended to influence or persuade, esp. for the purpose of Sales or advertising; an instance of this, a line (freq. in Sales pitch). colloq. L19.
Observer Actor Charlton Heston makes a recorded pitch for cable Television.
II.
A net set for catching fish. Now rare or obsolete. E16.
a. = PITCHER noun2 3. Only in L17.
b. = PITCHER noun2 4. local. L17.
A quantity of something pitched or thrown; spec. (a) the quantity of hay etc. thrown up by a pitchfork; (b) the quantity of a particular commodity placed for sale in a market or Other similar place. M19.
= PITCHER noun2 5. rare. L19.
III.
gen. The place or point at which something is pitched or placed. rare. M16.
fig. A position taken up and maintained; a fixed opinion or resolution. Only in E17.
a. A place at which a person stations himself or herself or is stationed; a portion of ground selected by or allotted temporarily or permanently to a person, a camp-site; esp. a spot in a street or Other public place where a street vendor sells wares or has a stall or at which a street performer, bookmaker, charity collector, etc., stations himself or herself. Also, the part of a market, stock exchange, etc., where particular Commodities are bought and sold. Orig. US. L17.
P. Scott A naked holy man occupying a pitch..to the right of the main entrance. Times The insurance pitch had another busy, nervous day. B. Geldof My pitch was Dean Street.
b. A place or spot in a river where an angler takes his or her stand. M19.
Coarse Fishing The angler is only as good as the pitch he is fishing.
A particular portion of a field or of a mine allotted to an individual workman. local. L18.
a. Cricket. The place where the wickets are pitched; the area of ground between the creases. L19.
b. The area of play in a field-game; the field, the ground. E20.
Times A goalless tie..on a snow-covered slippery pitch.
IV.
a. The highest or most extreme point, the top, the summit. M16-M17.
Milton Down they fell Driv'n headlong from the Pitch of Heaven.
b. A projecting point of some part of the body. Also, the shoulders. L16-E17.
c. The extreme point of a cape or headland, where it projects furthest into the sea. Chiefly US. L17.
a. The height to which a falcon or Other bird of prey soars before swooping down on its prey. Freq. in fly a pitch. L16.
Shakespeare 2 Henry VI And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.
b. The height to which anything rises; altitude, elevation. L16-L18.
J. Trapp Blazing comets..when they begin to decline from their pitch, they fall to the earth.
The height (of a person or animal), stature. L16-E19.
J. Moxon Makes the work fall too low for the pitch of the Workman.
fig. The highest point or degree of something; the acme, the climax. Now rare exc. in at the pitch of one's voice. E17.
W. Black When the General hilarity was at its pitch.
The height of a roof (esp. an arched roof) or ceiling above the floor, or of the vertex of an arch above the springing line. E17.
V.
a. The comparative degree or intensity of a quality or attribute; point or position on an ideal scale; elevation, status, level. M16.
J. Veneer They arrive at such a pitch, as they cannot think of without horror and astonishment. E. A. Freeman The family which..has risen from obscurity to the highest pitch of greatness.
b. spec. In copper-smelting, the degree of malleability of the metal. M19.
The quality of the sound of a musical instrument or voice which is governed by the rate of the vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of tone. Also, a particular standard of pitch for voices and instruments, as concert pitch etc. L16.
Early Music Performances on modern instruments at present-day pitch are lively. M. Warner His natural pitch was baritone.
VI.
The degree of inclination to the horizon; a sloping part or place; spec. (a) (chiefly Mountaineering) a downward inclination or slope; a steep place, a declivity; a descent, esp. a steep one; a section of a climb; (b) Mining & Geology the inclination of a vein of ore or seam of coal from the horizontal; a dip, a rise; (c) Architecture the inclination of a sloping roof or of rafters to the horizontal; the steepness of slope of a roof; the proportion of the height of a roof to its span; (d) (the slope of) a flight of steps; (e) the setting or inclination of the cutting or biting part of a device, permitting penetration to a required depth. M16.
VII.
Chiefly Mechanics. The distance between successive corresponding points or lines; spec. (a) the distance between the centres of any two successive teeth of a cog-wheel or links of a gear-chain; (b) the distance between the successive convolutions of the thread of a screw; (c) a measure of the angle of the blades of a screw propeller, equal to the distance forward a blade would move in one revolution if it exerted no thrust on the medium. E19.
The density of typed or printed characters on a line, usu. expressed as the number of characters per inch. M20.
Phrases: absolute pitch: see ABSOLUTE adjective 10. full pitch: see FULL adjective. perfect pitch: see PERFECT adjective. queer someone's pitch: see QUEER verb 2. relative pitch: see RELATIVE adjective. wild pitch: see WILD adjective, noun, & adverb.
Comb.: pitch accent Phonetics a stress placed on a word or syllable by its differing in pitch from its immediate surroundings; pitch-accented adjective having a pitch accent; pitch-and-putt a type of miniature Golf course in which the green can be reached in one; the form of Golf played on such a course; fig. an insignificant distance; pitch-and-run Golf a chip shot with a short forward run; pitch-and-toss a game of combined skill and chance in which coins are pitched at a mark and then tossed; Scot. a manoeuvre in the game of knifey; pitch axis = PITCHING axis; pitch bend Music a facility in a synthesizer that enables the player to change the pitch of the note played by a small amount; pitch-circle a circular pitch-line; pitch contour Phonetics the pattern of continuous variation in pitch; pitch control Aeronautics (equipment for) control of the pitch of an aircraft's propellers or (esp.) a helicopter's rotors; control of the pitching motion of an aircraft; pitch curve Phonetics = pitch contour above; pitch-hole (a) a hole into which something pitches or is pitched; an opening in the wall of a barn etc. through which corn or hay is pitched; (b) N. Amer. a defect in a road or trail; a pothole; pitch length Geology the length of an ore shoot in the direction of greatest dimension; pitch-line an imaginary line, usually a circle, passing through the teeth of a cog wheel, pinion, rack, etc., so as to touch the corresponding line in another cog-wheel etc. when the two are geared together; pitchman N. Amer. a person selling gadgets or novelties at a fair or in the street; transf. & fig. an advertiser, a person delivering a Sales pitch; pitchmeter (a) a device in an aeroplane for detecting or measuring pitching; (b) an instrument for measuring the pitch of sound; pitch phoneme Linguistics each of a set of phonemes distinguished by different levels of pitch; pitch-pipe Music a small pipe used to set the pitch for singing or tuning an instrument; pitch shot: see sense 4 above. See also combs. s.v. PITCH verb2.

Nagari (iou)

Nagari adjective & noun. L18.
[Sanskrit nagari, from nagara town.]
= DEVANAGARI.

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