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Pitch   /pɪtʃ/   Listen
Pitch

noun
1.
The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.
2.
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.  Synonym: delivery.
3.
A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk).
4.
Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration.  Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk.
5.
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane.  Synonyms: rake, slant.
6.
Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.  Synonym: tar.
7.
A high approach shot in golf.  Synonym: pitch shot.
8.
An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump.  Synonym: auction pitch.
9.
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).  Synonyms: lurch, pitching.
10.
The action or manner of throwing something.
verb
(past & past part. pitched; pres. part. pitching)
1.
Throw or toss with a light motion.  Synonyms: flip, sky, toss.  "Toss me newspaper"
2.
Move abruptly.  Synonyms: lurch, shift.
3.
Fall or plunge forward.
4.
Set to a certain pitch.
5.
Sell or offer for sale from place to place.  Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend.
6.
Be at an angle.  Synonyms: incline, slope.
7.
Heel over.  Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt.  "The ceiling is slanting"
8.
Erect and fasten.  Synonym: set up.
9.
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball.  Synonym: deliver.
10.
Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.
11.
Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.
12.
Set the level or character of.  Synonym: gear.



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"Pitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Phineas walked over at him as though he were going to pitch him instantly out of the window. "You may go and write as many more as you like. It is your trade, and you must do it or starve. But do not come to me again." Then he opened the door and stood with ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope
... Mrs. Nelson to lose her appetite. Clayton was to her the limit of civilization; there was too much sunshine, too much fresh air, too much out of doors. She disliked nature in its crude state; she preferred it softened and toned down to drawing-room pitch. ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... and exposed for the monster which he was; and that the Lord would destroy him with the brightness of his coming; the man who had dressed the Christians in skins, and hunted them with dogs; who had covered them with pitch, and burnt them; who had beheaded St. Paul and crucified St. Peter; who had murdered his own wife; who had put to death every good man whom he could seize, simply for being good; who had committed every conceivable ...
— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... Trinidad and Tobago Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... then, The nation that has doomed our Council-Fires— Splashed with our blood—will on its Father turn, Once more, whose lion-paws, stretched o'er the sea, Will sheathe their nails in its unnatural tides, Till blood will flow, as free as pitch in spring, To gum the chafed seams of our sinking bark. This opportunity, well-nursed, will give A respite to our wrongs, and heal our wounds; And all our nations, knit by me and ranged In headship with our Saganash allies, Will turn the mortal issue 'gainst our foes, And wall our threatened ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair


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