4. adv. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
5. adv. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
6. adj. In good health.
I had been sick, but now I'm well.
7. adj. (hypercorrect) Good, content.
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
8. adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
9. interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
“The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.”
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”
“I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight.”
10. interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
11. interj. An exclamation of indignance.
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
12. interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
It was a bit... well... too loud.
13. interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.”
14. interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
Well lads. How's things?
15. n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
16. n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
17. n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
18. n. (figurative) A source of supply.
19. n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
20. n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
21. n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported
22. n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
23. n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
24. n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
25. n. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
26. n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
27. n. A well drink.
They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
28. n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
29. n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
30. v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
31. v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.
1. n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
2. n. 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.
3. n. (geology) Pitchstone.
4. v. To cover or smear with pitch.
5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
6. n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
a good pitch in quoits
7. n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.
8. n. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i
The teams met on the pitch.
9. n. An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.
10. n. 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.
11. n. The angle at which an object sits.
the pitch of the roof or haystack
12. n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
13. n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
14. n. (nautical, aviation) 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
the pitch of an aircraft
15. n. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered.
16. n. The place where a busker performs.
17. n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
18. n. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
19. n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
20. n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
21. n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
22. n. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height.
23. n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
24. n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
25. n. 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
26. n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
27. v. To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
(transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball.
(intransitive) He pitched high and inside.
29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.
30. v. To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.
31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.
34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
(transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
(intransitive) The airplane pitched.
36. v. (transitive, golf) 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.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
to pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.
42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain.
45. n. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
46. n. (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.
47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
2. n. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
3. n. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where th
4. n. A mine.
5. n. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precis
6. n. (trading) A trading pit.
7. n. The bottom part of something.
I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.
8. n. (colloquial) Armpit.
9. n. (aviation) A luggage hold.
10. n. A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
11. n. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
12. n. The grave, or underworld.
13. n. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
14. n. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parq
15. n. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
16. n. (slang) A pit bull terrier.
I'm taking one of my pits to the vet on Thursday.
17. n. (in the with the, slang) (only used in, the pits).
His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.
18. v. To make pits in.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
19. v. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
20. v. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
21. v. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
22. n. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
23. n. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
24. n. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
25. v. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
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