loud |
1. adj. (of a sound) Of great intensity. | |
Turn that music down; it's too loud. | |
2. adj. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy. | |
a loud party that went on all night | |
3. adj. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash. | |
4. adj. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy. | |
a loud style of dress; loud colors | |
5. adj. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality | |
6. n. (slang) High-quality marijuana | |
7. adv. Loudly. | |
shrill |
1. adj. High-pitched and piercing. | |
The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds. | |
2. adj. Having a shrill voice. | |
3. adj. Sharp or keen to the senses. | |
4. adj. (figuratively, derogatory) Especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident. | |
5. v. To make a shrill noise. | |
6. n. A shrill sound. | |
piercing |
1. v. present participle of pierce | |
2. n. The action of the verb to pierce. | |
3. n. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it. | |
ear piercing | |
4. n. An item of jewelry designed to be fitted through a piercing. | |
5. adj. Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating. | |
piercing eyes | |
6. adj. Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter. | |
7. adj. Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill. | |
The piercing noise of the children could be heard two blocks from the elementary school. | |
pierce |
1. v. to puncture; to break through | |
The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash. | |
to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship | |
2. v. to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry | |
Can you believe he pierced his tongue? | |
3. v. to break or interrupt abruptly | |
A scream pierced the silence. | |
4. v. (transitive, figurative) To get to the heart or crux of (a matter). | |
to pierce a mystery | |
5. v. (transitive, figurative) To penetrate; to affect deeply. | |
high |
1. adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty. | |
The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain | |
2. adj. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions. | |
3. adj. (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders. | |
the pitch (or: the ball) was high | |
4. adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | |
5. adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall. | |
three feet high three Mount Everests high | |
6. adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character. | |
The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish. | |
7. adj. Most exalted; foremost. | |
the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar | |
8. adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive). | |
high crimes, the high festival of the sun | |
9. adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith. | |
high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) s | |
10. adj. Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend). | |
11. adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time. | |
high latitude, high antiquity | |
12. adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory. | |
13. adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc. | |
in high spirits | |
14. adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich. | |
high living, the high life | |
15. adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud. | |
a high tone | |
16. adj. (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused. | |
17. adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves. | |
18. adj. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc). | |
My bank charges me a high interest rate. I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol. high voltage high prices high winds a high number | |
19. adj. Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, (which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative)). | |
Carrots are high in vitamin A. made from a high-copper alloy | |
20. adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations). | |
The note was too high for her to sing. | |
21. adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate. | |
22. adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc. | |
23. adj. (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush. | |
I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush. | |
9-high straight = 98765 unsuited | |
Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush | |
24. adj. (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc. | |
North's hand was high. East was in trouble. | |
25. adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose. | |
Epicures do not cook game before it is high. | |
The tailor liked his meat high. | |
26. adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century) usually alcohol, but now (by the mid 20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, c | |
27. adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind. | |
28. adv. In or to an elevated position. | |
How high above land did you fly? | |
29. adv. In or at a great value. | |
Costs have grown higher this year again. | |
30. adv. In a pitch of great frequency. | |
I certainly can't sing that high. | |
31. n. A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. | |
32. n. A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best. | |
It was one of the highs of his career. | |
33. n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. | |
That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown. | |
34. n. A drug that gives such a high. | |
35. n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone. | |
A large high is centred on the Azores. | |
36. n. The maximum value attained by some quantity within a specified period. | |
Inflation reached a ten-year high. | |
37. n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period. | |
Today's high was 32°C. | |
38. n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn. | |
39. v. (obsolete) To rise. | |
The sun higheth. | |
40. n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose. | |
41. v. To hie; to hasten. | |
pitched |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of pitch | |
2. adj. Having a slope. | |
a pitched roof | |
3. adj. (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range. | |
a high-pitched scream. | |
4. adj. (not comparable) Fought from predetermined positions at a specified time and place. | |
a pitched battle | |
5. adj. (not comparable) Covered in pitch. | |
pitch |
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. | |
48. v. To fix or set the tone of. | |
rough |
1. adj. Not smooth; uneven. | |
2. adj. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished. | |
a rough estimate; a rough sketch of a building; a rough plan | |
3. adj. Turbulent. | |
The sea was rough. | |
4. adj. Difficult; trying. | |
Being a teenager nowadays can be rough. | |
5. adj. Crude; unrefined | |
His manners are a bit rough, but he means well. | |
6. adj. Violent; not careful or subtle | |
This box has been through some rough handling. | |
7. adj. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating. | |
a rough tone; a rough voice | |
8. adj. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem. | |
a rough diamond | |
9. adj. Harsh-tasting. | |
rough wine | |
10. adj. (chiefly UK, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick | |
11. adj. (chiefly UK, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover | |
12. n. The unmowed part of a golf course. | |
13. n. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. | |
14. n. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce. | |
15. n. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created. | |
16. n. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming and a vital step in the design process. | |
17. n. (obsolete) Boisterous weather. | |
18. v. To create in an approximate form. | |
Rough in the shape first, then polish the details. | |
19. v. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player. | |
20. v. To render rough; to roughen. | |
21. v. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes. | |
22. v. To endure primitive conditions. | |
23. adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly. | |
sounding |
1. n. The action of the verb to sound. | |
2. adj. Emitting a sound. | |
The sounding bell woke me up. | |
3. adj. Sonorous. | |
4. v. present participle of sound | |
Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed. | |
5. n. Test made with a probe or sonde. | |
6. n. A measured depth of water. | |
The sailor took a sounding every five minutes | |
7. n. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes | |
8. n. (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom. | |
9. n. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom. | |
sound |
1. adj. Healthy. | |
He was safe and sound. | |
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work. | |
2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure. | |
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound. | |
3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness. | |
4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent. | |
"How are you?" - "I'm sound.". | |
That's a sound track you're playing. | |
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him. | |
5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply. | |
Her sleep was sound. | |
6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force. | |
a sound beating | |
7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. | |
a sound title to land | |
8. adv. Soundly. | |
9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm. | |
- I found my jacket.- Sound. | |
10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | |
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound. | |
11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations. | |
12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc | |
13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise. | |
14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. | |
Stay within the sound of my voice. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound. | |
When the horn sounds, take cover. | |
16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound. | |
He sounded good when we last spoke. | |
That story sounds like a pack of lies! | |
17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. | |
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound. | |
19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law. | |
20. v. To cause to produce a sound. | |
Sound the alarm! | |
He sounds the instrument. | |
21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce. | |
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded. | |
22. n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. | |
Puget Sound; Owen Sound | |
23. n. The air bladder of a fish. | |
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food. | |
24. n. A cuttlefish. | |
25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale. | |
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive. | |
26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. | |
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal. | |
27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. | |
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope. | |
28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. | |
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra | |
29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde. | |
30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra. | |