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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  • An effort to sell or promote something.
  • An intensity.
  • A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • aviation A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
  • aviation A measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down.
  • baseball The act of pitching a baseball.
  • caving A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  • More specifically, the rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  • mountaineering A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  • music In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
  • music The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • nautical The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its athwartships axis, causing its bow and stern to go up and down. Compare with roll, yaw and heave.
  • sports The field on which field hockey is played.
  • The angle at which an object sits.
  • The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw, the turns of a screw thread, or letters in a monospace font.
  • The place where a busker performs.

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Verb:

  • baseball|intransitive To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • or|nautical|ambitransitive To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
  • baseball|transitive|or|intransitive To throw (the ball) toward home plate.
  • Bristolian dialect|of snow|intransitive To settle and build up, without melting.
  • cricket|intransitive To bounce on the playing surface.
  • golf|transitive To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • transitive To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • transitive To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • transitive To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • transitive To throw.
  • transitive To throw away; discard.

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