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Pitch   /pɪtʃ/   Listen
Pitch

noun
1.
The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.
2.
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.  Synonym: delivery.
3.
A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk).
4.
Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration.  Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk.
5.
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane.  Synonyms: rake, slant.
6.
Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.  Synonym: tar.
7.
A high approach shot in golf.  Synonym: pitch shot.
8.
An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump.  Synonym: auction pitch.
9.
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).  Synonyms: lurch, pitching.
10.
The action or manner of throwing something.
verb
(past & past part. pitched; pres. part. pitching)
1.
Throw or toss with a light motion.  Synonyms: flip, sky, toss.  "Toss me newspaper"
2.
Move abruptly.  Synonyms: lurch, shift.
3.
Fall or plunge forward.
4.
Set to a certain pitch.
5.
Sell or offer for sale from place to place.  Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend.
6.
Be at an angle.  Synonyms: incline, slope.
7.
Heel over.  Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt.  "The ceiling is slanting"
8.
Erect and fasten.  Synonym: set up.
9.
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball.  Synonym: deliver.
10.
Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.
11.
Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.
12.
Set the level or character of.  Synonym: gear.



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"Pitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... together, and Sile felt something prick him sharply on the left arm near the shoulder. At the same moment he saw the red man reel to and fro upon his horse, and then pitch off head foremost ...
— Two Arrows - A Story of Red and White • William O. Stoddard
... was thy blessed will To call him from a sinful land, Oh let us all be thankful still That it was done by thine own hand: No pitch of honour can be ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... touched, and squeezed the spinster's hand without uttering a word in reply. Then Mr Thorne expressed a hope that Mr Arabin found the church easy to fill, and Mr Arabin having replied that he had no doubt he should do so as soon as he had learnt to pitch his voice to the building, they all sat down to the good things ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... he never failed to be ready for all sorts of adventures and excursions. One pitch-dark rainy night we landed about ten o'clock at the mouth of a salmon stream when the water was phosphorescent. The salmon were running, and the myriad fins of the onrushing multitude were churning all the stream into a silvery glow, wonderfully beautiful and impressive in the ebon darkness. ...
— Stickeen • John Muir
... these great jugs, tightly sealed with plaster and pitch, properly dated and labeled, often remaining for many years. Some writers mention wine thus kept for a hundred years; the porosity of the earthen crocks, often holding fifty gallons or more, allowed evaporation, so that the wine in ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius


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