Hopefully just a quick one

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:37 pm

What word comes before:
force
figures
pitch

There's supposed to be just one that fits them all but try as I might, I can't figure it out. Can anyone help?

lolwhites · Post by **lolwhites** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:25 pm

full?

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:15 pm

I think that you are right, but how would you define "full pitch"?

lolwhites · Post by **lolwhites** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:21 pm

The usage example in my French dictionary is Excitement was at full pitch.

lolwhites · Post by **lolwhites** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:23 pm

Actually, I'm not sure about full figures - a full figure seems more natural-sounding, though I suppose we could say three ladies with full figures.

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:02 pm

Duh, I couldn't get the idea of an aircraft pitching, sth to do with the fact I did sth about ornithopters with the same class.

Excitement at full pitch, also volume at full pitch.

Full figures could refer to accountancy, not hiding anything. Yep, "full" is the answer.

Thing is, I didn't have the teachers book. I don't usually need it but I just couldn't figure that one out for some reason. Thanks.

PS, if you don't know what an ornithopter is, and you can play mpeg video, check this out:
http://www.ornithopter.net/images/full-scale.mpg

Not sure that Carmina Burana is the right music for it, though.

tigertiger · Post by **tigertiger** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:50 pm

Andrew Patterson wrote:Duh, I couldn't get the idea of an aircraft pitching, .

I think it would be the aircraft propeller that was at full pitch, perhaps not the aircraft.

Some prop have variable pitch (the angle of attack of the blade).
By putting the prop on full pitch you get maximum forward thrust. And most noise.

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:27 am

The answer is obviously the

Actually, the second most common collocation after 'the *' is 'sales *'. This is probably the answer they are searching for.

The site I use to access the British National Corpus allows me to search for words that come near the target word. Very useful for these kind of questions.

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:40 am

Both "full" "the" fit IMHO

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:46 am

Tigertiger wrote:

I think it would be the aircraft propeller that was at full pitch, perhaps not the aircraft.

Not in the movie of the aircraft that I posted because it didn't have a propeller (unless you count anything that propels something forward as a propeller.)

Could you say the wings were flapping at full pitch?
http://www.ornithopter.net/images/full-scale.mpg

stephen · Post by **stephen** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:17 am

How about the right force?
figures?
pitch?

Or correct/incorrect, exact, any, and impressive?

tigertiger · Post by **tigertiger** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:52 am

Andrew Patterson wrote:Tigertiger wrote:
I think it would be the aircraft propeller that was at full pitch, perhaps not the aircraft.
Not in the movie of the aircraft that I posted because it didn't have a propeller (unless you count anything that propels something forward as a propeller.)

Could you say the wings were flapping at full pitch?
http://www.ornithopter.net/images/full-scale.mpg

I think the inventors can make up thier own terms here.
Perhaps we could say that the use of the verb pitch is irregualr here

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:15 am

Perhaps we could say that the use of the verb pitch is irregualr here

Well, considering that it is a noun here, yes.

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:46 pm

TigerTiger wrote:

I think the inventors can make up thier own terms here.
Perhaps we could say that the use of the verb pitch is irregualr here

It's off topic I know, but in your opinion, did the ornithopter actually fly?

abufletcher · Post by **abufletcher** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:16 am

I don't know about the ornithopter but here are a few other aeronautic turkeys that managed to make it off the ground!

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/fa ... tml?1=BACK