pitch
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[ verb ] throw or toss with a light motion
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 . Related terms |
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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 . Related terms sound_property tone key high_pitch concert_pitch tune low_pitch high low |
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[ noun ] (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Synonyms 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 |
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[ noun ] promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
Synonyms 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 . |
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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 |
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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 . |
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[ noun ] degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
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 . |
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[ verb ] set the level or character of
Synonyms Examples "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (cards,games) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
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[ verb ] hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
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[ verb ] cause to be at a particular level
Examples "She pitched her aspirations too high" Related terms |
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