Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The problem is to disentangle the linguistic features of pitch from the co-occurring nonlinguistic features.

The inventory of tones is much smaller, and commonly the contrasts range along one single dimension, pitch level.

Pitchers grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal.

Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.

The Valley House is now a hostel and bar offering accommodation and pitch and putt golf facilities.

The acre is also approximately 56. 68 percent of a long by wide association football ( soccer ) pitch.

One application of pitch shifting is pitch correction.

Here a musical signal is tuned to the correct pitch using digital signal processing techniques.

* time stretching-the opposite of pitch shift, that is, the process of changing the speed of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.

* In music recording, autocorrelation is used as a pitch detection algorithm prior to vocal processing, as a distortion effect or to eliminate undesired mistakes and inaccuracies.

* WP — Wild pitches: charged when a pitch is too high, low, or wide of home plate for the catcher to field, thereby allowing one or more runners to advance or score

* He is hit by a pitch ( HBP ).

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

A hit by pitch is not counted statistically as a walk, though the effect is mostly the same, with the batter receiving a free pass to first base.

A ball pitched in this manner is called an intentional ball and counts as a ball in the pitcher's pitch count.

In order to count as an intentional ball, the ball must be legally pitched, i. e., the pitcher's foot must be on the pitcher's rubber, the catcher must be in the catcher's box, and the batter must be in the batter's box appearing ready to take a pitch at the time the ball is thrown.

In baseball, hit by pitch ( HBP ), or hit batsman ( HB ), is a batter or his equipment ( other than his bat ) being hit in some part of his body by a pitch from the pitcher.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

While he often claimed an inability to read music, he was quite the conductor and was said to have perfect pitch.

The match was played at The Oval in August on what was said to be a difficult pitch.

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

Former Feyenoord player Mike Obiku once said " Every time you enter the pitch, you're stepping into a lion's home.

" You can't pitch fastballs inside anymore, and you never get a called strike with a fastball inside ," said former pitcher Gene Garber.

For some instruments ( e. g., the piccolo or the double bass ), the sounding pitch is still a C, but in a different octave ; these instruments are said to transpose " at the octave ".

Winkles said he would give Jackson a look, and the next day while still in his football gear, he hit a home run on the second pitch he saw.

Bailey is a talented pianist and guitarist, and has perfect pitch ; of this he has said

When asked about this after the match, Milner said he had no preference where on the pitch he played.

He helped set up the winning goal for Micah Richards against Finland, and manager Stuart Pearce said after the match, " The modern-day full-back can get up and down the pitch and I knew would be comfortable ".

" It was about making space, coming into space, and organizing space-like architecture on the football pitch ," said Hulshoff.

' Now we'll see ,' said Morton, ' whether he can pitch to Ruth or not.

According to Schilling, the umpire behind the plate had said " I can't call that pitch a strike, the machine won't let me.

Returning to the broadcast booth at the end of the game, he said, " I said I can pitch better than nine of the ten guys on the staff, and I can.

Wisden said, ' MCC have sent more powerful teams from Lord's than this one, but never one superior in terms of corporate effort on the playing pitch and harmony in the pavilion.

" Right after I saw what happened with the fan, I woke up the next morning and told my wife that if the Cubs asked me to throw out the first pitch in the World Series, I was going to take that fan out to the mound with me ," he said.

Prior to the match some skeptics questioned the state of the pitch and also the ability of Russian authorities to keep order amongst the traveling British fans, however the match passed incident free and a British Embassy in Moscow spokesman said, " The security and logistical arrangements put in place by the Russian authorities have been first-rate, as has been their cooperation with their visiting counterparts from the UK.

His greatest assets were his physical strength and his level of authority on the pitch, which was said to be remarkable for such a young player, and he was particularly noted for his high level of stamina.

The pitch at Crimble is said to be one of the largest pitches in Lancashire, second only to Old Trafford.

In this context, the ball is said to pitch before it reaches the batsman.

" We're not taking any chances on that arm and we're not going to allow him to pitch again until the last trace of soreness has disappeared ," said Slapnicka.

I had to pitch to Tommy Henrich, Charlie Keller and Joe DiMaggio in the ninth inning to get the Yankees out ," Feller said.