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Ring

A small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority
He had a silver ring on one finger
A bishop's ring
A diamond ring

Pitch

The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone
Her voice rose steadily in pitch

Ring

A ring-shaped or circular object
An inflatable rubber ring
Fried onion rings

Pitch

The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.

Ring

An enclosed space, surrounded by seating for spectators, in which a sport, performance, or show takes place
A circus ring
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Pitch

A level of the intensity of something, especially a high level
The media furore reached such a pitch that the company withdrew the product

Ring

A group of people engaged in a shared enterprise, especially one involving illegal or unscrupulous activity
The police had been investigating the drug ring

Pitch

An area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game
A football pitch

Ring

A number of atoms bonded together to form a closed loop in a molecule
A benzene ring

Pitch

A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.

Ring

A set of elements with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, the second being distributive over the first and associative.

Pitch

A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something
He put over a very strong sales pitch

Ring

An act of ringing a bell, or the resonant sound caused by this
There was a ring at the door

Pitch

A place where a street vendor or performer stations themselves or sets up a stall
The traders had already reserved their pitches

Ring

A particular quality conveyed by something heard or expressed
The song had a curious ring of nostalgia to it

Pitch

A swaying or oscillation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle around a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of motion
The pitch and roll of the ship

Ring

Surround (someone or something), especially for protection or containment
The courthouse was ringed with police

Pitch

The distance between successive corresponding points or lines, for example between the teeth of a cogwheel.

Ring

Put an aluminium strip round the leg of (a bird) for subsequent identification
Only a small proportion of warblers are caught and ringed

Pitch

A sticky resinous black or dark brown substance that is semi-liquid when hot and hardens when cold, obtained by distilling tar or turpentine and used for waterproofing.

Ring

Fraudulently change the identity of (a motor vehicle), typically by changing its registration plate
There may be an organization which has ringed the stolen car to be resold

Pitch

Set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch
You've pitched the melody very high

Ring

Short for ringbark

Pitch

Throw roughly or casually
He crumpled the page up and pitched it into the fireplace

Ring

Make a clear resonant or vibrating sound
A shot rang out
A bell rang loudly

Pitch

Throw (the ball) for the batter to try to hit.

Ring

Call by telephone
Harriet rang Dorothy up next day
She rang to tell him the good news
I rang her this morning

Pitch

Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business
I've been pitching for this account for over a month

Ring

(of a place) resound or reverberate with (a sound or sounds)
The room rang with laughter

Pitch

Set up and fix in position
We pitched camp for the night

Ring

A circular object, form, line, or arrangement.

Pitch

(of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down
The little steamer pressed on, pitching gently

Ring

A small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.

Pitch

Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge
The roof was pitched at an angle of 75 degrees

Ring

A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something
A napkin ring.

Pitch

Pave (a road) with stones
Another sort of stone is used for pitching streets

Ring

Rings(Sports) A pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible.

Pitch

(in brewing) add yeast to (wort) to induce fermentation.

Ring

A circular movement or course, as in dancing.

Pitch

Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.

Ring

An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place
A circus ring.

Pitch

Any of various thick, dark, sticky substances obtained from the distillation residue of coal tar, wood tar, or petroleum and used for waterproofing, roofing, caulking, and paving.

Ring

A rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held.

Pitch

Any of various natural bitumens, such as mineral pitch or asphalt.

Ring

The sport of boxing.

Pitch

A resin derived from the sap of various coniferous trees, as the pines.

Ring

An enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack.

Pitch

The act or an instance of pitching.

Ring

Bookmakers considered as a group.

Pitch

A throw of the ball by the pitcher to the batter.

Ring

An exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests
A drug ring.

Pitch

A ball so thrown
Hit the pitch into left field.

Ring

A political contest; a race.

Pitch

(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.

Ring

(Botany) An annual ring.

Pitch

(Nautical) The alternate dip and rise of a vessel's bow and stern.

Ring

(Mathematics) The area between two concentric circles; annulus.

Pitch

The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.

Ring

(Mathematics) A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is a commutative group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.

Pitch

A steep slope.

Ring

Any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix.

Pitch

The degree of such a slope.

Ring

(Chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in polygonal form. Also called closed chain.

Pitch

(Sports) A single interval between ledges or anchors used as belaying points in mountaineering
A climb of six pitches.

Ring

The sound created by a bell or another sonorous vibrating object.

Pitch

The angle of a roof.

Ring

A loud sound, especially one that is repeated or continued.

Pitch

The highest point of a structure
The pitch of an arch.

Ring

A telephone call
Give me a ring when you have time.

Pitch

A level or degree, as of intensity
Worked at a feverish pitch.

Ring

A suggestion of a particular quality
His offer has a suspicious ring.

Pitch

(Acoustics) The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.

Ring

A set of bells.

Pitch

(Music) The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.

Ring

The act or an instance of sounding a bell.

Pitch

(Music) Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.

Ring

To surround with or as if with a ring; encircle
Guests ringed the coffee table.

Pitch

The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.

Ring

To form into a ring or rings.

Pitch

The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.

Ring

To ornament or supply with a ring or rings
Ringed the door knocker with a wreath of holly.

Pitch

The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.

Ring

To remove a circular strip of bark around the circumference of (a tree trunk or branch); girdle.

Pitch

The distance that a propeller would travel in an ideal medium during one complete revolution, measured parallel to the shaft of the propeller.

Ring

To put a ring in the nose of (an animal).

Pitch

A line of talk designed to persuade
"[his] pious pitch for ... austerity" (Boston Globe).

Ring

To hem in (animals) by riding in a circle around them.

Pitch

An advertisement.

Ring

(Games) To toss a ring over (a peg), as in horseshoes.

Pitch

Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.

Ring

To form a ring or rings.

Pitch

(Games) See seven-up.

Ring

To move, run, or fly in a spiral or circular course.

Pitch

(Printing) The density of characters in a printed line, usually expressed as characters per inch.

Ring

To give forth a clear resonant sound.

Pitch

To smear or cover with pitch.

Ring

To cause something to ring.

Pitch

To throw, usually with careful aim.

Ring

To sound a bell in order to summon someone
I'll ring for the maid.

Pitch

To discard by throwing
Pitched my worn-out sneakers.

Ring

To have a sound or character suggestive of a particular quality
A story that rings true.

Pitch

To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.

Ring

To be filled with sound; resound
The room rang with the children's laughter.

Pitch

To play (a game or part of a game) as pitcher.

Ring

To hear a persistent humming or buzzing
My ears were ringing from the sound of the blast.

Pitch

To assign as pitcher
The manager decided to pitch a left-hander.

Ring

To be filled with talk or rumor
The whole town rang with the bad news.

Pitch

To erect or establish; set up
Pitched a tent.
Pitch camp.

Ring

To cause (a bell, for example) to ring.

Pitch

To set firmly; implant; embed
Pitched stakes in the ground.

Ring

To produce (a sound) by or as if by ringing.

Pitch

To set at a specified downward slant
Pitched the roof at a steep angle.

Ring

To announce, proclaim, or signal by or as if by ringing
A clock that rings the hour.

Pitch

To set at a particular level, degree, or quality
Pitched her expectations too high.

Ring

Chiefly British To call (someone) on the telephone. Often used with up
She rang me at noon. Let's ring her up and invite her.

Pitch

(Music) To set the pitch or key of.

Ring

To test (a coin, for example) for quality by the sound it produces when struck against something.

Pitch

To adapt so as to be applicable; direct
Pitched his speech to the teenagers in the audience.

Ring

(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.

Pitch

(Informal) To attempt to promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner
"showed up on local TV to pitch their views" (Business Week).

Ring

A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

Pitch

(Sports) To hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.

Ring

A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

Pitch

To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.

Ring

(British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

Pitch

To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).

Ring

(UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.

Pitch

To throw or toss something, such as a ball, horseshoe, or bale.

Ring

In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

Pitch

(Baseball) To play in the position of pitcher.

Ring

(historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

Pitch

To plunge headlong
He pitched over the railing.

Ring

(botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.

Pitch

To stumble around; lurch.

Ring

(physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.

Pitch

To buck, as a horse.

Ring

A circular group of people or objects.
A ring of mushrooms growing in the wood

Pitch

(Nautical) To dip bow and stern alternately.

Ring

(astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.

Pitch

To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.

Ring

(British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.

Pitch

To oscillate about a lateral axis that is both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and horizontal to the earth. Used of a missile or spacecraft.

Ring

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
Onion rings

Pitch

To slope downward
The hill pitches steeply.

Ring

(internet) webring

Pitch

To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.

Ring

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

Pitch

(Sports) To hit a golf ball in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.

Ring

The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.

Pitch

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

Ring

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices. Category:en:Corruption
A crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)

Pitch

A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
It was pitch black because there was no moon.

Ring

(chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
A benzene ring

Pitch

(geology) Pitchstone.

Ring

(geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

Pitch

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
A good pitch in quoits

Ring

(typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

Pitch

(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.

Ring

(historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

Pitch

The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. cricket pitch.}} Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.
The teams met on the pitch.

Ring

(computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

Pitch

(rare) The field of battle.

Ring

(firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

Pitch

An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.

Ring

(cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Pitch

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.
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.

Ring

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.

Pitch

The angle at which an object sits.
The pitch of the roof or haystack

Ring

(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
The name has a nice ring to it.

Pitch

The rotation angle about the transverse axis.

Ring

(figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.

Pitch

The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
The pitch of an aircraft

Ring

(colloquial) A telephone call.
I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

Pitch

(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.

Ring

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

Pitch

An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.

Ring

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

Pitch

(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.

Ring

(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, is the prototypical ring.

Pitch

An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.

Ring

(algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2\mathbb{Z} of even integers to be a ring.

Pitch

A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.

Ring

A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.{{cite-book

Pitch

A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.

Ring

(transitive) To enclose or surround.
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

Pitch

The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.

Ring

To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

Pitch

Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.

Ring

(transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

Pitch

The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.

Ring

(transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
To ring a pig’s snout

Pitch

A person's or animal's height.

Ring

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

Pitch

Prominence; importance.

Ring

(transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

Pitch

(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.

Ring

To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence intransitive, to work as a drover, to muster cattle.

Pitch

(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.

Ring

(intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
The bells were ringing in the town.

Pitch

(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Ring

(transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

Pitch

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Ring

(transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

Pitch

The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
A steep pitch in the road
The pitch of a roof

Ring

To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Whose mobile phone is ringing?

Pitch

(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

Ring

Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
That does not ring true.

Pitch

The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

Ring

To telephone (someone).
I will ring you when we arrive.

Pitch

(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.
Are we in baroque pitch for this one?

Ring

(intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.

Pitch

(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

Ring

(intransitive) To produce music with bells.

Pitch

To cover or smear with pitch.

Ring

(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Pitch

To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Ring

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

Pitch

(transitive) To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.

Ring

To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,Hath rung night's yawning peal.

Pitch

To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
The hurler pitched a curveball.
He pitched high and inside.

Ring

To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Pitch

To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.

Ring

To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
Now ringen trompes loud and clarion.
Why ring not out the bells?

Pitch

(transitive) To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.

Ring

To practice making music with bells.

Pitch

(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.

Ring

To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
With sweeter notes each rising temple rung.
The hall with harp and carol rang.
My ears still ring with noise.

Pitch

(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?

Ring

To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
The assertion is still ringing in our ears.

Pitch

(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.

Ring

To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

Pitch

(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

Ring

To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.

Pitch

To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
The airplane pitched.

Ring

To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

Pitch

To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.

Ring

To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

Pitch

To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.

Ring

To rise in the air spirally.

Pitch

To settle and build up, without melting.

Ring

A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

Pitch

To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

Ring

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears.

Pitch

(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.

Ring

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world.

Pitch

(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
To pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.

Ring

A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

Pitch

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.

Ring

Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.

Pitch

To set or fix.

Ring

A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring,Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

Pitch

To discard for some gain.

Ring

An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.

Pitch

To attack, or position or assemble for attack.

Ring

A circular group of persons.
And hears the Muses in a ringAye round about Jove's alter sing.

Pitch

(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.

Ring

The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

Pitch

(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

Ring

An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

Pitch

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.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Ring

An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

Pitch

See Pitchstone.

Ring

A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
The ruling ring at Constantinople.

Pitch

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

Ring

A characteristic sound;
It has the ring of sincerity

Pitch

That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Ring

A toroidal shape;
A ring of ships in the harbor
A halo of smoke

Pitch

A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, downInto this deep.
Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
To lowest pitch of abject fortune.
He lived when learning was at its highest pitch.
The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends.

Ring

A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling;
There was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse

Pitch

Height; stature.

Ring

(chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop

Pitch

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Ring

An association of criminals;
Police tried to break up the gang
A pack of thieves

Pitch

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.

Ring

The sound of a bell ringing;
The distinctive ring of the church bell
The ringing of the telephone
The tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells

Pitch

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.

Ring

A square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle

Pitch

The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

Ring

Jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger;
She had rings on every finger
He noted that she wore a wedding band

Pitch

The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.

Ring

A strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

Pitch

The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.

Ring

Sound loudly and sonorously;
The bells rang

Pitch

To cover over or smear with pitch.

Ring

Ring or echo with sound;
The hall resounded with laughter

Pitch

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
The welkin pitched with sullen could.

Ring

Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification;
Ring the bells
My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church

Pitch

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.

Ring

Be around;
Developments surround the town
The river encircles the village

Pitch

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.

Ring

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;
I tried to call you all night
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning

Pitch

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

Ring

Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify;
Ring birds
Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns

Pitch

To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

Pitch

To set or fix, as a price or value.

Pitch

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

Pitch

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch.

Pitch

To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.

Pitch

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.

Pitch

The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

Pitch

(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

Pitch

A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);
He was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors

Pitch

Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

Pitch

Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;
The roof had a steep pitch

Pitch

Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

Pitch

A high approach shot in golf

Pitch

An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

Pitch

Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
The pitching and tossing was quite exciting

Pitch

The action or manner of throwing something;
His pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor

Pitch

Throw or toss with a light motion;
Flip me the beachball
Toss me newspaper

Pitch

Move abruptly;
The ship suddenly lurched to the left

Pitch

Fall or plunge forward;
She pitched over the railing of the balcony

Pitch

Set to a certain pitch;
He pitched his voice very low

Pitch

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

Pitch

Be at an angle;
The terrain sloped down

Pitch

Heel over;
The tower is tilting
The ceiling is slanting

Pitch

Erect and fasten;
Pitch a tent

Pitch

Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
The pitcher delivered the ball

Pitch

Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

Pitch

Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

Pitch

Set the level or character of;
She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience

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