Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To throw, usually with careful aim. synonym: throw.
- intransitive verb To discard by throwing.
- intransitive verb To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.
- intransitive verb To play (a game or part of a game) as pitcher.
- intransitive verb To assign as pitcher.
- intransitive verb To erect or establish; set up.
- intransitive verb To set firmly; implant; embed.
- intransitive verb To set at a specified downward slant.
- intransitive verb To set at a particular level, degree, or quality.
- intransitive verb Music To set the pitch or key of.
- intransitive verb To adapt so as to be applicable; direct.
- intransitive verb Informal To attempt to promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner.
- intransitive verb Sports To hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
- intransitive verb To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
- intransitive verb To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).
- intransitive verb To throw or toss something, such as a ball, horseshoe, or bale.
- intransitive verb Baseball To play in the position of pitcher.
- intransitive verb To plunge headlong.
- intransitive verb To stumble around; lurch.
- intransitive verb To buck, as a horse.
- intransitive verb Nautical To dip bow and stern alternately.
- intransitive verb To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.
- intransitive verb To oscillate about a lateral axis that is both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and horizontal to the earth. Used of a missile or spacecraft.
- intransitive verb To slope downward.
- intransitive verb To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.
- intransitive verb Sports To hit a golf ball in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
- noun The act or an instance of pitching.
- noun A throw of the ball by the pitcher to the batter.
- noun A ball so thrown.
- noun Sports A playing field.
- noun Nautical The alternate dip and rise of the bow and stern of a ship.
- noun The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.
- noun A steep downward slope.
- noun The degree of such a slope.
- noun The angle of a roof.
- noun The highest point of a structure.
- noun A level or degree, as of intensity.
- noun Acoustics The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
- noun Music The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When two gears of equal size mesh together, the pitch line, or the _pitch circle_, as it is also called, is exactly midway between the centers of the two wheels.
Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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-- To illustrate: If a gear has 40 teeth, and the pitch diameter of the wheel is 4 inches, there are 10 teeth to each inch of the pitch diameter, and the gear is then 10 _diametral pitch_.
Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in a pitch, pitch that defiles: defile!
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The Indians hollow the red elms into canoesi fome of which made out of one spiece will contain twenty perfons; others are made of the bark; the different pieces of which they few together with the inner rind, and daub over the feams with pitch or rather a bituminous matter refem - bling pitch» to prevent their leaking; the ribs of thefs canoes are made of boughs of trees.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States 1795
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The term pitch count was still a century from being fashionable when Charles Howard Hinton was whiling away afternoons watching the Princeton baseball team.
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BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is, although inside I think the term pitch is a very, very quiet pitch, dignified pitch.
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Unidentified Group: (Singing foreign language) GREENSPAN: Down on the pitch is a fierce four-against-four match as players kick the ball from one side to the other, ricocheting it off the sides of the ring before the striker can run up and launch it between the goalposts.
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The creative team in your pitch is the one we expect to see actually working on your book.
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For example, Babe Ruth III invents an electronic device that can signal whether a pitch is a ball or a strike.
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For example, Babe Ruth III invents an electronic device that can signal whether a pitch is a ball or a strike.
Legal Definitions 2008
brtom commented on the word pitch
Depend upon it, child, I’ll never control your choice; but Mr. Marlow whom I have pitched upon, is the son of my old friend, Sir Charles Marlow, of whom you have heard me talk so often.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I
January 8, 2007
bilby commented on the word pitch
A playing surface for the game of cricket.
November 29, 2007
bilby commented on the word pitch
What time is it? What time is it?
This dark corridor shrouded in thought
Cannot resist the night coachman . . .
The telephone rings, rings again, nervously—
What time is it? What time is it?
God, this sudden early-morning rain
Attacks like an endless torrent of pitch.
- Galaktion Tabidze, 'What Time Is It?' translated from the Georgian by Adam J. Sorkin and Nana Bukhradze
November 10, 2008
madmouth commented on the word pitch
"'There's one place where that Dalrymple chap talks even on for two pages, and never lets the girl get a word in edgewise. If he'd done that in real life she'd have pitched him.'"
-Mr. Harrison in Anne of the Island
May 29, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word pitch
"Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?" - American League baseball pitcher Jerome Hanna (Dizzy) Dean - asked of new/young batters he'd never pitched against.
February 19, 2011