pitch

Plural: pitches

Noun

• the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
• (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
• a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
  • "he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors"
• promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
• degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
  • "the roof had a steep pitch"
• any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
• a high approach shot in golf
• an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
• abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
  • "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
• the action or manner of throwing something
  • "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"
• A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.
• Pitchstone.
• A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• The act of pitching a baseball.
• The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
• A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• The field of battle.
• 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.
• The angle at which an object sits.
• The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
• The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
• An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
• An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
• A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
• Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
• The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
• A person's or animal's height.
• Prominence; importance.
• A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• 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.
• The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
• The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
• In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

Verb

Verb Forms: pitched, pitching, pitches

• To throw or toss, or to set up a tent.
• throw or toss with a light motion
• move abruptly
• fall or plunge forward
  • "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"
• set to a certain pitch
  • "He pitched his voice very low"
• sell or offer for sale from place to place
• be at an angle
• heel over
• erect and fasten
  • "pitch a tent"
• throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
  • "The pitcher delivered the ball"
• hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
• lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
• set the level or character of
  • "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
• To cover or smear with pitch.
• To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• To throw.
• To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• To throw away; discard.
• To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
• To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
• To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
• To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• To bounce on the playing surface.
• To settle and build up, without melting.
• To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• To fix one's choice.
• To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
• To set or fix (a price or value).
• To discard (a card) for some gain.
• To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
• To add yeast as a step while making beer
• To produce a note of a given pitch.
• To fix or set the tone of.

Adj

• Very dark black; pitch-black.
• Intense, deep, dark.

Examples

• a good pitch in quoits
• A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
• a steep pitch in the road
• Are we in baroque pitch for this one?
• At which level should I pitch my presentation?
• Bob pitches today.
• Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
• He gave me a sales pitch.
• He pitched high and inside.
• He pitched the candy wrapper.
• He pitched the horseshoe.
• He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
• It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
• It was pitch black because there was no moon.
• Pitch the tent over there.
• She decided to PITCH her strategy early, aiming for high-scoring words.
• The airplane pitched.
• The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
• The barrel was sealed with pitch.
• The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
• The field pitches toward the east.
• The hurler pitched a curveball.
• The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
• the pitch of a roof
• the pitch of an aircraft
• The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
• The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
• the pitch of the roof or haystack
• The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
• The pitch was low and inside.
• The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.
• The teams met on the pitch.
• The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
• They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
• to pitch from a precipice

Synonyms

auction pitch, cant, cant over, deliver, delivery, flip, gear, hawk, huckster, incline, lurch, monger, peddle, pitch shot, pitching, rake, sales pitch, sales talk, set up, shift, sky, slant, slope, tar, tilt, toss, vend, 86, bin, bung, can, cast, cast aside, cast away, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, chunk, cook, dash, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, feck, fling, get rid of, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, jettison, junk, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, scrap, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, throw aside, throw away, throw out, traject, trash, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

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