Word Meanings - PITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See AMERICA (more info) 1. 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.,

Additional info about word: PITCH

See AMERICA (more info) 1. 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. Ecclus. xiii. 1.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PITCH)

• Acme
• Summit
• zenith
• climax
• apex
• pitch
• culmination
• meridian
• Cast
• Hurl
• send down
• throw
• fling
• impel
• project
• construct
• mold
• frame
• Emergency
• Crisis
• conjunction
• embarrassment
• strait
• necessity
• exigency
• casualty
• difficulty
• Encamp
• Settle
• quarter
• bivouac
• Tone
• Pitch
• loudness
• mood
• intonation
• sound
• temper
• tenor
• character
• drift
• effect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PITCH)

• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to PITCH)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• FLET
  Skimmed.
• FLEAMY
  Bloody; clotted. Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.