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leap
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?p, IPA(key): /li?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hl?apan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
Verb
leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lopen)
- (intransitive) To jump.
- c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
- It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
- 1600, anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4
- I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
- 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
- Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
- 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
- It is better to leap into the void.
- c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
- (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
- (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
- (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a human)
- go leap her, and engender young devilings
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
Usage notes
The choice between leapt and leaped is often generally a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English whereas leaped is somewhat more common in American English (although this is not to say that leapt is not used in American English, especially in areas with historical ties to England). According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.
Synonyms
- (jump from one location to another): bound, hop, jump, spring
- (jump upwards): bound, hop, jump, spring
Derived terms
- beleap
- forthleap
- leaper
- outleap
- overleap
- upleap
Translations
Noun
leap (plural leaps)
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
- Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A group of leopards.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)
- Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]
- 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- A salmon ladder.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
leap (not comparable)
- (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
Etymology 2
From Middle English leep, from Old English l?ap (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).
Alternative forms
- leep
Noun
leap (plural leaps)
- (obsolete) A basket.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
Anagrams
- Alep, Lape, Peal, e-pal, pale, pale-, peal, pela, plea
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pitch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English pi?, from Latin pix. Cognate with Dutch pek, German Pech, and Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”).
Noun
pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
Derived terms
- pitch-black
- pitchblende
- pitch-dark
- pitch darkness
- pitch-tar
Translations
Descendants
- ? Galician: piche
- ? Portuguese: piche
See also
- piceous
Verb
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
- Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.
- 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
Etymology 2
From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), an assibilated variant of Middle English picken, pikken (“to pick, pierce”). More at pick.
Noun
pitch (plural pitches)
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- (sports, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) 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" is the preferred word.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- 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 helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
- He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press (1973), section 11:
- But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
- 2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (page 190)
- In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]
- September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
- The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
- (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 with roll, yaw, and heave.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (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 with roll, yaw, and heave.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- 1975, Tom A. Cullen, The Prostitutes' Padre (page 94)
- Another reason is that the prostitute who makes her pitch at Marble Arch stands a chance of being picked up by an out-of-town business man stopping at one of the hotels in the vicinity, and of being treated to a steak dinner […]
- 1975, Tom A. Cullen, The Prostitutes' Padre (page 94)
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- Prominence; importance.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering (page 84)
- You lead "through" instead — your companion leads a pitch, then you join him. But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.
- 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering (page 84)
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Hyponyms
- football pitch
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.
- (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous
- Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
- (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown. Perhaps related to the above sense of level or degree, or influenced by it.
Noun
pitch (plural pitches)
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, pages 196–197:
- His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, pages 196–197:
Translations
References
- pitch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
Noun
pitch m (plural pitchs)
- pitch (sales patter, inclination)
Italian
Noun
pitch m (plural pitch)
- (cricket) cricket pitch
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