pitch has definitions from the fields of sport,baseball,nautical,cards,games,golf,music,chemistry,business
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[ verb ] throw or toss with a light motion

Synonyms

toss sky flip

Examples

"flip me the beachball" "toss me newspaper"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on .

(Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)

And so it was over the weekend what with 40 - year old Warren_Spahn pitching his no-hit masterpiece against the Giants and the Giants ' Willie_Mays retaliating with a record tying 4 - homer spree Sunday .

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

`` We 're getting Friend some runs for a change , and he has been pitching good '' , Murtaugh said .

Larry_Scherer last night pitched a no-hit_game , said to be the first in Billiken baseball history , as the Blue_and_White beat Southeast_Missouri_State_College , 5 - 1 , at Crystal_City .

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[ verb ] move abruptly

Synonyms

lurch shift

Examples

"The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

Used in print

(R. Leslie Gourse, With Gall and Honey....)

His body pitched back_and_forth on the bench .

Related terms

move shift lurch lurch

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[ noun ] (music) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

Used in print

(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)

The problem is to disentangle the linguistic features of pitch from the co-occurring nonlinguistic features .

Pitch differences from one speaker to another , or from one emotional_state to another , may far exceed the small differences between tones .

The inventory of tones is much smaller , and commonly the contrasts range along one single dimension , pitch level .

(Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)

Gun held his breath a moment , pushing the volume and pitch of his voice down under the trapdoor in his throat .

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[ noun ] (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

Synonyms

delivery

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

John_Powell , batting for Adair , fanned after fouling off two 2 - and 2 pitches , and Buddy_Barker , up for Stepanovich , bounced_out sharply to Jerry_Lumpe at second to end the 2 - hour and - 27 - minute contest .

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[ verb ] fall or plunge forward

Examples

"She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

Related terms

descend

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[ noun ] promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

Used in print

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

They , perhaps , gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American_Assembly_of_Columbia_University , because it was non-partisan .

Related terms

promotion peddle

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[ verb ] set to a certain pitch, as of an instrument or one's voice

Examples

"He pitched his voice very low"

Related terms

set

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[ noun ] (British) a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)

Examples

"he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors"

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

He then got a job with the Chicago_Herald-Examiner as a circulation_slugger , a rough fighter employed to see that his paper 's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors .

Related terms

position UK

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[ noun ] degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

Synonyms

slant rake

Examples

: "the roof had a steep pitch"

Used in print

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

At each angle of its pitch a big skylight had been fitted into the roof and all these skylights were fitted with systems of multiple screens and shades .

Related terms

gradient cant slope

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[ verb ] heel over

Examples

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

Related terms

move cock bank bevel tilter lean

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[ verb ] erect and fasten

Synonyms

set_up

Examples

"pitch a tent"

Related terms

rear camp

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[ noun ] (chemistry) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

Synonyms

tar

Related terms

bitumen coal_tar tar

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[ verb ] set the level or character of

Synonyms

gear

Examples

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

Related terms

adapt popularise

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[ noun ] (sport,golf) a high approach shot in golf

Synonyms

pitch_shot

Related terms

approach

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[ noun ] (cards,games) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

Synonyms

auction_pitch

Related terms

all_fours

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[ verb ] hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

Related terms

hit

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[ verb ] cause to be at a particular level

Examples

"She pitched her aspirations too high"

Related terms

set

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[ verb ] erect and fix firmly in place

Examples

"They pitched the roof at a steep slant"

Related terms

put set

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[ verb ] be at an angle

Synonyms

incline slope

Examples

"The terrain sloped down"

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[ verb ] (business) sell or offer for sale from place to place
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[ verb ] (baseball) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

Synonyms

deliver

Examples

"The pitcher delivered the ball"

Related terms

throw fan

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[ verb ] (cards) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

Related terms

play card_game

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

Synonyms

pitching lurch

Examples

"the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

Related terms

motion rock ship lurch

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[ noun ] (sport) the action or manner of throwing something

Examples

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

Related terms

throw flip

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