Word Finder - pitch

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A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

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It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

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A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

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It was pitch black because there was no moon.

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Pitchstone.

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To cover or smear with pitch.

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To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

You can stop making your pitch, Brandon.

It was pitch dark and rainy.

It wasn't bad enough she had to pitch her cookies in front of him, now she was going to cry.

I invited him to pitch shoes with me but he wouldn't have any of it.

She was in the middle of every pitch and fully supported each note.

She sang right in the middle of every pitch and had a lovely vibrato.

There were three bedrooms but the largest one, presumably belonging to Howie, was located in the rear of the house where it remained pitch black.

Dean had opted to pitch his tent in City Park.

Quinn returned to the hospital but Betsy and I remained at Howie's side in the pitch dark room.

It was pitch black in the bedroom where I was supposed to get the suit.

I threatened him with a pitch fork and told him to get out and not come back.

His curiosity and agitation, like that of the whole crowd, reached the highest pitch at this fifth murder.

Any note may be a pitch note; for orchestras custom has settled upon a' in the treble clef, for organs and pianos in Great Britain c 2, and for modern brass instruments b flat'.

He further tells us this pitch was a tone, nearly a tone and a half, higher than a suitable church pitch (Chorton), for which he gives a diagram.

In one passage he distinctly says the old organ high pitch had been a whole tone above his Cammerton, with which we shall find his tertia minore combines to make the required interval.

The term tertia minore, or inferiore, is used by Praetorius to describe a low pitch, often preferred in England and the Netherlands, in Italy and in some parts of Germany.

The pitch of the screw is the same as that of the measuring screw (50 threads to the inch), and its motion can be limited by a stop to half a revolution.

The Halberstadt pitch was found to be a' 505.8; the Chorton, 424.2.

Praetor ius's Cammerton, or chamber pitch, formulated in his diagrams for voices and instruments, is, he says, a whole tone higher; equivalent, therefore, to a' 475.65.

Smith, of Cambridge, in 1759, had the organ of Trinity College, built by Bernhardt Schmidt, lowered a whole tone, to reduce it to certain Roman pitch pipes made about 1720.

The high pitch remains only where there are large concert organs not yet lowered, and with the military and brass bands.

The natural basis for a standard musical pitch is the voice, particularly the male voice, which has been of greater importance historically.

St Michael's church at Hamburg, built as late as 1762 and unaltered in 1880, had a 17th-century pitch, a' 407.9.

At Selinitza, near Avlona, there is a remarkable deposit of mineral pitch which was extensively worked in Roman times; mining operations are still carried on here, but in a somewhat primitive fashion.

The Hampton Court organ of 1690 shows that Schmidt had further lowered his pitch a semitone, to a' 441 7.

But about that year the performing pitch of the Society had reached 452.5.

The British army is bound by His Majesty's Rules and Regulations to play at the Philharmonic pitch, and a fork tuned to a' 452.5 in 1890 is preserved as the standard for the Military Training School at Kneller Hall.

Like the wasps, before I finally went into winter quarters in November, I used to resort to the northeast side of Walden, which the sun, reflected from the pitch pine woods and the stony shore, made the fireside of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire.

The young trees require protection from storms and late frosts even more than in England; the red pine of the north-eastern states, Pinus resinosa, answers well as a nurse, but the pitch pine and other species may be employed.

A young forest growing up under your meadows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.

The storm made the forest pitch dark; therefore, searching was useless until it abated.

The micrometer-screw S has a pitch of 0.5 mm., its head is divided into too parts.

Worm wheel gearing is of very high efficiency if made very quick in pitch, with properly formed teeth perfectly lubricated, and with the end thrust of the worm taken on ball bearings.

The 3D accelerometer that changed the pitch has been replaced with a 1D one that is easier to control.

The area was pitch black, and the dark mass was darker than that.

In the pitch dark we started our descent, only having green paint on some of the rocks to guide us down.

Came across as a complete psycho, but is probably a much different person off the pitch.

The single most important thing I learned when I started to play synthesizer is how to control pitch!

The Chorton of Praetorius, a l 4 22.8, is practically the same pitch as that of the fork the possession of which has been attributed to Handel, a' 422.5.

The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch pine soon covered the pond and the stones and rotten wood along the shore, so that you could have collected a barrelful.

Then, as if explaining her long distance telephone expenditure added, "She got a free phone card for listening to a time share pitch."

Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley (vide Ellis's lecture) regarded the French ton de chapelle as being about a minor third below the Diapason Normal, a' 435, and said that most of the untouched organs in the French cathedrals were at this low pitch.

This could be fixed, within certain limits, at whatever pitch suited the composition; but on the horn it could be only very partially filled out by notes of a muffled quality produced by inserting the hand into the bell of the instrument, a device impossible on the trumpet.

The pitch of a musical sound depends on the number of cycles passed through by the fluctuations of the pressure per unit of time; the loudness depends on the amount or the amplitude of the fluctuation in each cycle; the quality depends on the form or the nature of the fluctuation in each cycle.

In both these examples all the three characteristics - pitch, relative intensity, and quality - of sound are reproduced.

These suggestions were to some extent an anticipation of the work of Reis; but the conditions to be fulfilled before the sounds given out at the receiving station can be similar in pitch, quality and relative intensity to those produced at the transmitting station are not stated, and do not seem to have been appreciated.

It may here be remarked that the name "European frankincense" is applied to Pinus Taeda, and to the resinous exudation ("Burgundy pitch") of the Norwegian spruce firs (Abies excelsa).

In acoustics he invented, about 1819, the improved siren which is known by his name, using it for ascertaining the number of vibrations corresponding to a sound of any particular pitch, and he also made experiments on the mechanism of voice-production.

The chief industry of Lemgo is the manufacture of meerschaum pipes, which has attained here a high pitch of excellence; other industries are weaving, brewing and the manufacture of leather and cigars.

Maxwell illustrates the difference between a soft solid and a hard liquid by a jelly and a block of pitch; also by the experiment of supporting a candle and a stick of sealingwax; after a considerable time the sealing-wax will be found bent and so is a fluid, but the candle remains straight as a solid.