vibrato
vib.
tremolo
detune
aftertouch
beat
modulate
oom-pah
bass
drop
click
wolf tone
sharpen
fermata
high-pitched
high
octaving
ritardando
auto-tune
snap
musicalness
musicality
low-pitched
flatten
low
material action
bassy
birl
downdrift
octaviation
flat
rhythm
disturbance
diminution
ghost note
noise
melodization
loco
interference
symphonics
resonance
demiflat
timescaling
key
overblow
zoop
musical note
tone
decreasing
intonation
syncope
note
notelike
decrescendo
wobble bass
lip
wah-wah
increasing
tuning
loud
pitch
fortissimo
Lombard rhythm
accent
emphasis
diminuendo
scanty
stress
slide
tubicination
tone ending
twang
head voice
release
toot
swoop
inflect
trail off
aeolian attachment
harmony
imbal
bebung
inversion
crescendo
expression
braaam
voice
round robin
dotted note
amplify
stringed instrument
melodylike
bass
high-pitched
high
low-pitched
low
bassy
flat
decreasing
notelike
wah-wah
increasing
loud
fortissimo
scanty
melodylike
loco
vibrato
vib.
tremolo
aftertouch
oom-pah
click
wolf tone
fermata
octaving
ritardando
snap
musicalness
musicality
material action
birl
downdrift
octaviation
rhythm
disturbance
diminution
ghost note
noise
melodization
interference
symphonics
resonance
demiflat
timescaling
musical note
tone
intonation
syncope
note
decrescendo
wobble bass
tuning
pitch
Lombard rhythm
accent
emphasis
diminuendo
stress
slide
tubicination
tone ending
twang
head voice
release
swoop
aeolian attachment
harmony
imbal
bebung
inversion
crescendo
expression
braaam
voice
round robin
dotted note
stringed instrument
key
detune
beat
modulate
drop
sharpen
auto-tune
flatten
key
overblow
flat
lip
toot
inflect
trail off
amplify
verb
- To intentionally lower or raise the pitch produced by a musical instrument. Often done to produce sounds not normally possible, or in the case of stringed instruments to reduce tension for the purposes of shipping or maintenance.
- To alter the capacitance of a circuit such that its resonant frequency differs from the incoming frequency.
noun
- Pressure sensitivity on an electronic synthesizer, allowing the musician to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck.
- A feature in football/soccer games allowing the player to swerve the ball immediately after kicking it.
- A touch (feature or characteristic) added finally or as an afterthought.
verb
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
verb
- To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
- To regulate, adjust or adapt
- to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
- to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
adj
verb
noun
- The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- One who sings in the bass range.
- An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
verb
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
noun
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The latch of a door.
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
verb
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- To make sense suddenly.
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
intj
adj
- used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
- greater than normal in quantity or amount
- (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high')
adv
- at a great altitude
- in or to a high position, amount, or degree
- in a rich manner
- far up toward the source
noun
- a lofty level or position or degree
- an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- a state of sustained elation
- a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics
- a high place
- a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
- a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
adj
noun
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
verb
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adj
adj
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
adv
verb
noun
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a low level or position or degree
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
adj
adj
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
verb
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To dash or throw
- To dash, rush
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
adv
noun
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
noun
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
- a noisy fight
- the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
noun
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
- a loud outcry of protest or complaint
- incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
verb
adv
noun
verb
adj
noun
- An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
- A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
- The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
- A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
- Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
- The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
- A influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
- The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
- A quality of human relationship with the world.
- The quality of being resonant.
verb
- regulate the musical pitch of
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- provide with a key
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- harmonize with or adjust to
noun
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- something crucial for explaining
- pitch of the voice
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of answers to a test
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
adj
verb
- To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
- To blow hard or with much violence.
- To cover with blossoms or flowers.
- To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
- To exaggerate the significance of something.
- Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
- To blow over or across.
noun
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- the quality of a person's voice
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- a steady sound without overtones
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
verb
noun
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- a brief written record
- a short personal letter
- a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling
- a characteristic emotional quality
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
verb
verb
- To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
- To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- To utter verbally.
- To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- To wash against a surface, lap.
noun
- Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
- One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
- Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
adj
noun
intj
verb
noun
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
noun
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- distinctive manner of oral expression
- special importance or significance
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
- a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
verb
noun
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
verb
noun
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- sloping channel through which things can descend
verb
noun
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant.
- The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor.
verb
noun
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- the act of liberating someone or something
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- euphemistic expressions for death
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
verb
- release, as from one's grip
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- eliminate (a substance)
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- make (information) available for publication
- part with a possession or right
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- make (assets) available
verb
- To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
- Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To see; to spy.
- To stand out, or be prominent.
- To peep; to look narrowly.
- To go on a drinking binge.
- To snort (a recreational drug).
- To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
- To flatulate.
- To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).
noun
noun
- The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- The academic study of chords.
- Agreement or accord.
- Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
noun
- The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
- The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
- A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
- A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
- An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
- The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
- The action of inverting.
- Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
- A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
- The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
noun
- The tone of voice or sound in music.
- A specific blend of whisky.
- A colloquialism or idiom.
- The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
- An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
- The process of translating a gene into a protein.
- A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
- (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out.
- A particular way of phrasing an idea.
- A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader
noun
- The tone or sound emitted by an object
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
- A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- The faculty or power of utterance
verb
- To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
noun
- The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect.
- A form of bet on the full set of possible combinations from a larger group (of teams, racehorses, etc.), such as the outcomes A+B, B+C and A+C from a group ABC.
- A petition signed in a circular fashion to disguise the order in which it was done.
- A method of dividing loot amongst a party of players by having the game assign in turn loot to a player or an enemy corpse to loot to a player.
- A form of trade, a series of exchanges in which each person in turn receives items of the same value from the previous person, finally returning to the original donor. For example in (philately) a stamp collector sends a packet of stamps to the next person on a list, who then takes the stamps he wants, replacing them with like-valued stamps, and then passing the packet to the next person on the list, until the packet ultimately returns to the original sender.
- A letter, with copies to multiple recipients, usually at Christmastime and often enclosed with a card, giving family news of interest to the sender.
- A method of dividing labor between several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn in an attempt to use resources more equitably.
- The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.
verb
- To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
- To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
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