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pitch

UK/pɪt͡ʃ/ US/ˈpɪtʃ/ common slang uk

verb

1.

throw or toss with a light motion

  • “flip me the beachball”
  • “toss me newspaper”
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2.

move abruptly

  • “The ship suddenly lurched to the left”
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3.

fall or plunge forward

  • “She pitched over the railing of the balcony”
4.

set to a certain pitch

  • “He pitched his voice very low”
5.

sell or offer for sale from place to place

6.

be at an angle

  • “The terrain sloped down”
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7.

heel over

  • “The tower is tilting”
  • “The ceiling is slanting”
8.

erect and fasten

  • “pitch a tent”
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9.

throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

  • “The pitcher delivered the ball”
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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

  • “She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience”
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noun

1.

the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

2.

(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

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3.

a vendor''s position (especially on the sidewalk)

  • “he was employed to see that his paper”
5.

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

  • “the roof had a steep pitch”
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6.

any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

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7.
8.

an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

9.

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

  • “the pitching and tossing was quite exciting”
10.

the action or manner of throwing something

  • “his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor”

Origin

From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".

Phrases

  • absolute pitch
  • auction pitch
  • baroque pitch
  • brushback pitch
  • Burgundy pitch
  • Canada pitch
  • ceremonial first pitch
  • concert pitch
  • dark as pitch
  • earth pitch
  • elevator pitch
  • fever pitch

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