Ring vs. Pitch — What's the Difference?
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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, , 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 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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