pitch
IPA: pˈɪtʃ
noun
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- (rare) The field of battle.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- 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 angle at which an object sits.
- 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.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
- (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.
- (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.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
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Examples of "pitch" in Sentences
- The surface of the pitch is artificial.
- The pitch was the largest in Yugoslavia.
- The apartment is right next to the pitch.
- The foregoing describes the actual pitch.
- On the pitch, the season was as stressful.
- The pitch is a rectangular area of the ground.
- The elevators are the primary control of pitch.
- Famous billionaire Donald Trump threw the first pitch of the game.
- The spat continued when the players walked off the pitch for half time.
- Fortunes on the pitch suffered as the shortfall was met by selling players.