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A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
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A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.
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(geology) Pitchstone.
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To cover or smear with pitch.
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To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
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Very dark black; pitch-black.
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(of a black color) Intense, deep, dark.
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A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
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(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
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(sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
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(golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
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(rare) The field of battle.
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An effort to sell or promote something.
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The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
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The angle at which an object sits.
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The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
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An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
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(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
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An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
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A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
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A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
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The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
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(obsolete, uncountable) Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
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The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
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(now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
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Prominence; importance.
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(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
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(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
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(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
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A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
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The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
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(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
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(transitive) To throw.
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(transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
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(intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
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(transitive) To throw away; discard.
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(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
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(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
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(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
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(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
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(ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
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(transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
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(transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
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(intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
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(intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
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(intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
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(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
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(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
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(transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
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(transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
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(transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
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To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
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(brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
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(music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
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(music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
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(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
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(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
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(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.