pitch vs windmill

pitch

noun
  • The act of pitching a baseball. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • The field of battle. 

  • 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. 

windmill

noun
  • A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball. 

  • A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind. 

  • Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper. 

  • Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill. 

  • An imaginary enemy, but presented as real. 

  • A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill. 

  • A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. 

  • The structure containing such machinery. 

  • The false shower. 

  • A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air. 

  • A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop. 

verb
  • To rotate with a sweeping motion. 

  • Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. 

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