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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pitchingnoun

    (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team

  2. lurch, pitch, pitchingnoun

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

    "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

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  1. pitching

    Pitching generally refers to the act of throwing a ball towards a target. It is a term most commonly used in sports such as baseball and cricket. However, it can also refer to the process of presenting or proposing an idea, project, or product to someone with the aim of convincing them to accept or approve it. In the context of aviation, pitching refers to the movement of an aircraft around its lateral axis, causing the nose to move up or down.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pitching

    of Pitch

  2. Pitchingnoun

    the act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball

  3. Pitchingnoun

    the rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone

  4. Pitchingnoun

    a facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. pitching

    The plunging of a ship's head in a sea-way; the vertical vibration which her length makes about her centre of gravity; a very straining motion.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pitching in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pitching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of pitching in a Sentence

  1. Jim Palmer:

    The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

  2. Jamie Chadwick:

    Walking up and down the paddock, obviously people were pitching to me 'today that was a bit dominant' but... we're all in the same cars and sharing each others' data and onboards, so especially in the dry it's going to be close... the longer tests we've done, you wouldn't believe how close it gets and that's all because we're all sharing each others' data.

  3. Brian Snitker:

    This whole World SeriesAdam, world championship, you can't say enough about our pitching.

  4. Scott Servais:

    He’s been probably one of our most consistent at-bats here over the last week or so, just grinding through it, obviously, his niche is killing the lefties. He usually stays right on left-handed pitching, and he was right there again tonight.

  5. New York:

    We can call it aggressive because of the way Walker was pitching, right? he didn’t deserve to be out of the game, but the back-to-back plays just led to that decision.

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