Meaning of 'pitch' (Webster Dictionary)
- A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in
coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
- See Pitchstone.
- To cover over or smear with pitch.
- Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as,
a good pitch in quoits.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights
when bowled.
- A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or
depression; hence, a limit or bound.
- Height; stature.
- 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; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
- The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by
the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a
scale of high and low.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of
the ore taken out.
- The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth
of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
- The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of
the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw
propeller.
- The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes
in boiler plates.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to
encamp.
- To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
- To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or
slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy
sea; the field pitches toward the east.
- To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to
cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a
ball.
- To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles;
hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange;
as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as
an embankment or a roadway.
- To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
- To set or fix, as a price or value.
Meaning of 'pitch' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
Example in sentence:- he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors
Meaning (2):
- the action or manner of throwing something
Example in sentence:- his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor
Meaning (3):
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
Example in sentence:- the pitching and tossing was quite exciting
Meaning (4):
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
Example in sentence:- the roof had a steep pitch
Meaning (5):
- throw or toss with a light motion
Example in sentence:- flip me the beachball;
- toss me newspaper
Meaning (6):
- set to a certain pitch
Example in sentence:- He pitched his voice very low
Meaning (7):
- erect and fasten
Meaning (8):
- set the level or character of
Example in sentence:- She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience
Meaning (9):
- fall or plunge forward
Example in sentence:- She pitched over the railing of the balcony
Meaning (10):
- heel over
Example in sentence:- The ceiling is slanting;
- The tower is tilting
Meaning (11):
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
Example in sentence:- The pitcher delivered the ball
Meaning (12):
- move abruptly
Example in sentence:- The ship suddenly lurched to the left
Meaning (13):
- be at an angle
Definition
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