Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɪtʃ/
pitch
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
- The barrel was sealed with pitch.
- It was pitch black because there was no moon.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- French: résine, sève, poix
- German: Harz, Pech
- Italian: resina, pece
- Portuguese: seiva, breu
- Russian: смола́
- Spanish: brea, pez
- French: poix, brai
- German: Pech
- Italian: pece, bitume, catrame
- Portuguese: piche, pez, breu
- Russian: дёготь
- Spanish: pez
pitch (pitches, present participle pitching; past and past participle pitched)
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- Book of Genesis 6:14, King James Version
- “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
- Book of Genesis 6:14, King James Version
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- Soon he found / The welkin pitched with sullen cloud.
pitch (plural pitches)
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- a good pitch in quoits
(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball. - The pitch was low and inside.
- (sports, Australia, NZ) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" is the preferred word.
- The teams met on the pitch.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- He gave me a sales pitch.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
- The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
- A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- the pitch of the roof or haystack
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
- He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
- 1748, David Hume,
, Oxford University Press (1973), section 11: - But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
- 2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (page 190)
- In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]
- September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
- The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- the pitch of an aircraft
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The place where a busker performs.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down / Into this deep.
- Prominence; importance.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 3, member 2:
- Alba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame; that great Alexander a little man of stature, Augustus Cæsar of the same pitch […] .
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- a steep pitch in the road
- the pitch of a roof
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- French: lancer
- German: Wurf
- Italian: servizio
- Portuguese: arremesso
- Russian: пода́ча
- Spanish: lanzamiento
- French: terrain
- German: Sportplatz
- Italian: campo, pitch
- Portuguese: campo
- Spanish: campo
- French: laïus, argument, présentation, promotion
- German: Verkaufsgespräch
- Italian: promozione, sostegno, lancio
- French: pas, écartement
- German: Teilung, Abstand
- Italian: passo
- Russian: питч
- Spanish: distancia, paso (de rosca o hélice)
- French: inclinaison, angle, pente
- German: Neigung, Steigung
- Italian: inclinazione, pendenza
- Russian: ска́т
- Spanish: declive
- French: tangage
- French: tangage
- Italian: beccheggio
- Russian: тангаж
- French: tangage
- Italian: beccheggio
- Russian: дифферент
- French: emplacement
- French: extremum
- French: puits
- French: taille
- French: chute
- French: descente
pitch (pitches, present participle pitching; past and past participle pitched)
(transitive) To throw. - He pitched the horseshoe.
(transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. - (transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball.
- (intransitive) He pitched high and inside.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- Bob pitches today.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- He pitched the candy wrapper.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- At which level should I pitch my presentation?
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
- Pitch the tent over there.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 31:25 ↗:
- Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
- (transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
- (intransitive) The airplane pitched.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- to pitch from a precipice
- The field pitches toward the east.
- (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
- (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
- French: lancer
- German: werfen
- Portuguese: arremessar
- Russian: подава́ть
- Spanish: echar, lanzar
- German: wegwerfen
- German: werben, bewerben
- Italian: promuovere, sostenere
- Spanish: promover
- French: déclamer
- German: aufschlagen
- Portuguese: armar
- Russian: ста́вить
- Spanish: armar, plantar
- French: camper
- German: aufschlagen
- Russian: поста́вить
- French: tanguer
- French: s'accumuler
- Italian: crescere, accumularsi
- French: arrêter
- French: paver
- French: fixer
pitch (plural pitches)
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
- French: hauteur (d'un ton)
- German: Tonhöhe, Tonlage
- Italian: altezza f , tono, intonazione, timbro
- Portuguese: altura, agudeza, agudez
- Russian: тон
- Spanish: tono, altura, altura tonal
pitch (pitches, present participle pitching; past and past participle pitched)
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:
- […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 196–197:
- His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 196–197:
- French: donner la note
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