18. pitch to plunge with alternate fall and rise of bow and stern, as a ship.
19. pitch (of a rocket or guided missile) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by oscillations of the longitudinal axis in a vertical plane about the center of gravity.
20. pitch to fix a tent or temporary habitation; encamp.
21. pitch Golf. to play a pitch shot.
22. pitch Informal.
23. pitch to contribute to a common cause.
24. pitch Informal.
25. pitch to attack verbally or physically.
26. (n.)pitch relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
27. pitch the degree of inclination or slope; angle.
28. pitch (in music, speech, etc.) the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations by which it is produced.
29. pitch Music. the particular tonal standard with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative level.
30. pitch the apparent predominant frequency sounded by an acoustical source.
45. pitch the extent of the rotation of the longitudinal axis involved in pitching.
46. pitch Geol. the inclination of a linear feature, as the axis of a fold or an oreshoot, from the horizontal.
47. pitch the distance between the corresponding surfaces of two adjacent gear teeth, measured between perpendiculars to the root surfaces.
48. pitch the distance between any two adjacent things in a series, as screw threads or rivets.
49. pitch Cards.
50. pitch a unit of typographic measurement indicating the number of characters to a horizontal inch.
51. (n.)pitch any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
52. pitch any of certain bitumens, as asphalt: mineral pitch.
2. (noun)pitch, delivery (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
3. (noun)pitch 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"
3. pitch fever pitch high intensity Excitement about the tournament has reached a fever pitch this week.
4. pitch a speech used to sell a product the car salesman's pitch
5. pitch in baseball, an act of throwing a ball to the batter The first pitch was a strike.
6. pitch a field for playing a sport on a football pitch
7. (verb)pitch in baseball, to throw a ball to the batter He's pitching a lot of fast balls.; Who's pitching?
8. pitch pitch a tent to put a tent up They pitched their tent beneath the trees.
Definition of 'Pitch'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Pitch a thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them
4. (noun)Pitch fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure
5. (noun)Pitch a throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits
6. (noun)Pitch that point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled
7. (noun)Pitch a point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound
8. (noun)Pitch height; stature
9. (noun)Pitch a descent; a fall; a thrusting down
10. (noun)Pitch the point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof
11. (noun)Pitch the relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low
12. (noun)Pitch the limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out
13. (noun)Pitch the distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch
14. (noun)Pitch the length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller
15. (noun)Pitch the distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates
16. (verb)Pitch to throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball
17. (verb)Pitch to thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp
18. (verb)Pitch to set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway
19. (verb)Pitch to fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune
20. (verb)Pitch to set or fix, as a price or value
21. (verb)Pitch to fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp
22. (verb)Pitch to light; to settle; to come to rest from flight
23. (verb)Pitch to fix one's choise; -- with on or upon
24. (verb)Pitch to plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east
Definition of 'Pitch'
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
1. Pitch 1. The movement of an aircraft or ship about its transverse axis. 2. In air photography, the camera rotation about the transverse axis of the aircraft. Also called tip.