list vs pitch

list

noun
  • The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle. 

  • Material used for cloth selvage. 

  • A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank. 

  • A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power. 

  • A little square moulding; a fillet or listel. 

  • The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. 

  • A tilt to a building. 

  • The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments. 

  • A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. 

  • A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker. 

  • A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. 

  • A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items. 

verb
  • To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat. 

  • To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. 

  • To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed. 

  • To create or recite a list. 

  • To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. 

  • To plough and plant with a lister. 

  • To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list. 

  • To place in listings. 

  • To listen to. 

  • To listen. 

  • To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe. 

  • To cause (something) to tilt to one side. 

  • To tilt to one side. 

pitch

noun
  • The field of battle. 

  • A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. 

  • A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller. 

  • The angle at which an object sits. 

  • 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. 

  • In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by. 

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

  • 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 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.) 

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

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

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

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

  • 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 act of pitching a baseball. 

  • A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. 

  • The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant. 

  • A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. 

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

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

  • The perceived frequency of a sound or note. 

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

  • Pitchstone. 

  • An effort to sell or promote something. 

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

  • A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders. 

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

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

  • A person's or animal's height. 

  • Prominence; importance. 

verb
  • To fix or set the tone of. 

  • To play baseball in the position of pitcher. 

  • To throw away; discard. 

  • To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin. 

  • To set or fix. 

  • To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind. 

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

  • To attack, or position or assemble for attack. 

  • To darken; to blacken; to obscure. 

  • To cover or smear with pitch. 

  • To throw. 

  • To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell. 

  • To assemble or erect (a tent). 

  • To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down. 

  • To bounce on the playing surface. 

  • To settle and build up, without melting. 

  • To discard for some gain. 

  • To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. 

  • To fix one's choice. 

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

  • To produce a note of a given pitch. 

  • To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope. 

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