Definitions for pitch
pɪtʃpitch

Princeton's WordNet(4.31 / 16 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pitchnoun

   the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

2. pitch, deliverynoun

   (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

3. pitchnoun

   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. sales talk, sales pitch, pitchnoun

   promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

5. pitch, rake, slantnoun

   degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

   "the roof had a steep pitch"

6. pitch, tarnoun

   any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

7. pitch, pitch shotnoun

   a high approach shot in golf

8. pitch, auction pitchnoun

   an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

9. lurch, pitch, pitchingnoun

   abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

   "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

10. pitchverb

    the action or manner of throwing something

    "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

11. flip, toss, sky, pitchverb

    throw or toss with a light motion

    "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

12. lurch, pitch, shiftverb

    move abruptly

    "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

13. pitchverb

    fall or plunge forward

    "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

14. pitchverb

    set to a certain pitch

    "He pitched his voice very low"

15. peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitchverb

    sell or offer for sale from place to place

16. slope, incline, pitchverb

    be at an angle

    "The terrain sloped down"

17. cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitchverb

    heel over

    "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

18. pitch, set upverb

    erect and fasten

    "pitch a tent"

19. deliver, pitchverb

    throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

    "The pitcher delivered the ball"

20. pitchverb

    hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

21. pitchverb

    lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

22. gear, pitchverb

    set the level or character of

    "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

Webster Dictionary(2.50 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pitchnoun

   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

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

2. Pitchnoun

   see Pitchstone

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

3. Pitchnoun

   to cover over or smear with pitch

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

4. Pitchnoun

   fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

5. Pitchverb

   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

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

6. Pitchverb

   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

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

7. Pitchverb

   to set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

8. Pitchverb

   to fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

9. Pitchverb

   to set or fix, as a price or value

   Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

10. Pitchverb

    to fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

11. Pitchverb

    to light; to settle; to come to rest from flight

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

12. Pitchverb

    to fix one's choise; -- with on or upon

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

13. Pitchverb

    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

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

14. Pitchnoun

    a throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

15. Pitchnoun

    that point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

16. Pitchnoun

    a point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

17. Pitchnoun

    height; stature

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

18. Pitchnoun

    a descent; a fall; a thrusting down

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

19. Pitchnoun

    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

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

20. Pitchnoun

    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

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

21. Pitchnoun

    the limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

22. Pitchnoun

    the distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

23. Pitchnoun

    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

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

24. Pitchnoun

    the distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates

    Etymology: [See Pitch, n.]

Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Pitch

   Pitch is a name for any of a number of viscoelastic, solid polymers. Pitch can be made from petroleum products or plants. Petroleum-derived pitch is also called bitumen or asphalt. Pitch produced from plants is also known as resin. Some products made from plant resin are also known as rosin. Pitch was traditionally used to help caulk the seams of wooden sailing vessels. Pitch was also used to waterproof wooden containers, and is sometimes still used in the making of torches. Petroleum-derived pitch is black in colour, hence the adjectival phrase, "pitch-black".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pitch

   pich, n. the solid black shining substance obtained by boiling down common tar.—v.t. to smear with pitch.—adjs. Pitch′-black, Pitch′-dark, dark as pitch: very dark.—ns. Pitch′-blende, a black oxide of uranium; Pitch′-coal, a kind of bituminous coal: jet; Pitch′iness, state or quality of being pitchy; Pitch′-pine, a kind of pine which yields pitch, and is much used in America as fuel; Pitch′-plas′ter, a plaster of Burgundy or white pitch; Pitch′-stone, an old volcanic-like hardened pitch; Pitch′-tree, the kauri pine, the Amboyna pine, or the Norway spruce.—adj. Pitch′y, having the qualities of pitch: smeared with pitch: black like pitch: dark: dismal. [A.S. pic—L. pix, pic-is.]

2. Pitch

   pich, v.t. to thrust or fix in the ground: to fix or set in array: to fix the rate or price: to fling or throw: (mus.) to set the keynote of.—v.i. to settle, as something pitched: to come to rest from flight: to fall headlong: to fix the choice: to encamp: to rise and fall, as a ship.—n. a throw or cast from the hand: any point or degree of elevation or depression: degree: degree of slope: a descent: the height of a note in speaking or in music: (mech.) distance between the centres of two teeth in a wheel or a saw, or between the threads of a screw measured parallel to the axis.—ns. Pitched′-batt′le, a battle in which the contending parties have fixed positions: a battle previously arranged for on both sides; Pitch′er; Pitch′-far′thing, chuck-farthing; Pitch′fork, a fork for pitching hay, &c.: a tuning-fork.—v.t. to lift with a pitchfork: to throw suddenly into any position.—ns. Pitch′ing, the act of throwing: a facing of stone along a bank to protect against the action of water; Pitch′pipe, a small pipe to pitch the voice or tune with.—Pitch and pay (Shak.), pay down at once, pay ready-money; Pitch and toss, a game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost; Pitch in, to begin briskly; Pitch into, to assault. [A form of pick.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pitch

   Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence. It is used in a hot state with oakum in caulking the ship to fill the chinks or intervals between her planks. Also, in steam navigation, the distance between two contiguous threads of the screw-propeller, is termed the pitch. Also, in gunnery, the throw of the shot.--To pitch, to plant or set, as tents, pavements, pitched battles, &c.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pitch

   To fix firmly; to plant; to set in array; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

Matched Categories

1. • Adapt
   • Bitumen
   • Cards
   • Erect
   • Fall
   • Hit
   • Lean
   • Motion
   • Move
   • Play
   • Position
   • Sell
   • Set
   • Ship
   • Sound Property

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pitch' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3653

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pitch' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3645

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pitch' in Nouns Frequency: #1375

How to pronounce pitch?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pitch in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pitch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of pitch in a Sentence

1. Andrea Bocelli:

   Certainly, we will all have to pitch in, each to his and her best ability, and we will need some wise and enlightened people to guide us, because if we don't, it will be very difficult.

2. Andrew Solomon:

   A lot of teams rely way too heavily on two or three kids to pitch and those kids are getting overpitched from a pretty young age.

3. Donald Trump:

   If you had seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever anywhere. Pitch black. I have never seen anything like it.

4. Michael Jennings:

   All too often, conflicts have been assumed to be localized, just left alone until they reach a pitch where they show their international significance, the danger is that we don't see the links, we don't see people moving back and forth.

5. Sean Nolin:

   After the first pitch flew out of my hand, there didn’t seem to be anything going on so I was a little surprised.

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