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Definition of 'pitch'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) pitch
to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).

2.  pitch
to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position.

3.  pitch
to throw, fling, hurl, or toss.

4.  pitch
Baseball.

5.  pitch
to deliver or serve (the ball) to the batter.

6.  pitch
to serve as pitcher of (a game).

7.  pitch
to set at a certain point, degree, level, etc.:
He pitched his hopes too high.

8.  pitch
to establish the musical key of.

9.  pitch
to set or build with a downward slope: a pitched roof.

10.  pitch
to pave or revet with small stones.

11. (v.i.) pitch
to plunge or fall forward or headlong.

12.  pitch
to lurch.

13.  pitch
to throw or toss.

14.  pitch
Baseball.

15.  pitch
to deliver or serve the ball to the batter.

16.  pitch
to fill the position of pitcher.

17.  pitch
to slope downward; dip.

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.

31.  pitch
the act or manner of pitching.

32.  pitch
a throw or toss.

33.  pitch
Baseball. the serving of the ball to the batter by the pitcher.

34.  pitch
a pitching movement, as of a ship.

35.  pitch
a sloping part or place:
the pitch of a hill.

36.  pitch
a quantity of something pitched or placed somewhere.

37.  pitch
Cricket. the central part of the field; area between the wickets.

38.  pitch
Informal.

39.  pitch
a sales talk, often high-pressured.

40.  pitch
Aeron.

41.  pitch
the nosing of an airplane or spacecraft up or down about a transverse axis.

42.  pitch
the distance that a given propeller would advance in one revolution.

43.  pitch
(of a rocket or guided missile)

44.  pitch
the motion due to pitching.

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.

53.  pitch
any of various resins.

54.  pitch
the sap or crude turpentine that exudes from the bark of pines.

55. (v.t.) pitch
to smear or cover with pitch.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME pich, OE pic < L pic- (s. of pix), whence also D pek, G Pech; akin to Gk píssa pitch)

Definition of 'pitch'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) pitch
the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

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"

4. (noun) sales talk, sales pitch, pitch
promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

5. (noun) pitch, rake, slant
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
"the roof had a steep pitch"

6. (noun) pitch, tar
any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

7. (noun) pitch, pitch shot
a high approach shot in golf

8. (noun) pitch, auction pitch
an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

9. (noun) lurch, pitch, pitching
abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
"the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

10. (verb) pitch
the action or manner of throwing something
"his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

11. (verb) flip, toss, sky, pitch
throw or toss with a light motion
"flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

12. (verb) lurch, pitch, shift
move abruptly
"The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

13. (verb) pitch
fall or plunge forward
"She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

14. (verb) pitch
set to a certain pitch
"He pitched his voice very low"

15. (verb) peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch
sell or offer for sale from place to place

16. (verb) slope, incline, pitch
be at an angle
"The terrain sloped down"

17. (verb) cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
heel over
"The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

18. (verb) pitch, set up
erect and fasten
"pitch a tent"

19. (verb) deliver, pitch
throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
"The pitcher delivered the ball"

20. (verb) pitch
hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

21. (verb) pitch
lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

22. (verb) gear, pitch
set the level or character of
"She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

Definition of 'pitch'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) pitch
how high or low a sound or musical note is
the high pitch of the engine's whine

2.  pitch
the intensity of emotion or activity

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

2. (noun) pitch
see Pitchstone

3. (noun) pitch
to cover over or smear with pitch

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.

Translation of 'pitch'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to set up (a tent or camp) They pitched their tent in the field.
Afrikaans: opslaan	Arabic: يُقيمُ الخَيْمَه	Bulgarian: разпъвам
Brazilian: armar	Czech: postavit	German: aufschlagen
Danish: rejse; sætte op	Greek: στήνω (π.χ. σκηνή)	Spanish: plantar, armar, montar
Estonian: (telki v. laagrit)üles lö	Farsi: بر پا کردن	Finnish: pystyttää
French: dresser	Hebrew: לְהָקִים	Hindi: खेल के लिए स्थान
Croatian: tpodići (šator), utaborit	Hungarian: (sátrat) felállít	Indonesian: mendirikan
Icelandic: slá upp tjaldi	Italian: piantare, fissare	Japanese: 張る
Korean: 치다, 세우다	Lithuanian: įrengti, pastatyti	Latvian: uzsliet (telti)
Malay: memasang	Dutch: opslaan	Norwegian: slå opp (et telt)
Polish: rozbijać	Persian: بر پا کردن	Pashto: دردول ( لكه خيمه ) غور ځو
Portuguese: armar	Romanian: a ridica	Russian: разбивать, устанавливать
Slovak: postaviť, (u)táboriť (sa)	Slovenian: postaviti	Serbian: postaviti
Swedish: slå upp, resa	Thai: ตั้งโครงขึ้น	Turkish: kurmak
Taiwanese: 搭(帳)，紮(營)	Ukrainian: ст��вити намет; розташову	Urdu: نصب کرنا
Vietnamese: cắm trại	Chinese: 搭（帐），扎（营）
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