pitch

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 1.3.2.2 Related terms 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.4.2 Verb 1.5 References

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɪtʃ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɪtʃ

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English piċ, from Latin pix.

[edit] Noun

pitch (plural pitches)

1. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

   It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand.

2. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

   They put pitch on the mast to protect it. The barrel was sealed with pitch.

   It was pitch black because there was no moon.

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• pitch-black, pitchblack
• pitchblende

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English pitch (“‘to thrust in, fasten, settle’”), from Old English

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pitch (plural pitches)

1. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.

   The pitch was low and inside.

2. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played.

   The teams met on the pitch.

3. An effort to sell or promote something.

   He gave me a sales pitch.

4. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw, the turns of a screw thread, or letters in a monospace font.

   The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.

   The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.

5. The angle at which an object sits.

   The pitch of the roof or haystack

6. More specifically, the rotation angle about the transverse axis.
7. (aviation) A measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down.

   The pitch of an aircraft

8. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.

   The propellor blades' pitch

9. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its athwartships axis, causing its bow and stern to go up and down. Compare with roll, yaw and heave.
10. The place where a busker performs.
11. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
12. An intensity.
    • 1748, David Hume, w:Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 11.

      But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity

13. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
14. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.

    The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.

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[edit] Verb

to pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)

1. (transitive) To throw.

   He pitched the horseshoe.

2. (baseball, transitive or intransitive) To throw (the ball) toward home plate.

   (transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball.

   (intransitive) He pitched high and inside.

3. (baseball, intransitive) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

   Bob pitches today.

4. (transitive) To throw away; discard.

   He pitched the candy wrapper.

5. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.

   He pitched the idea for months with no takers.

6. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.

   At which level should I pitch my presentation?

7. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).

   Pitch the tent over there.

8. (aviation or nautical, ambitransitive) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.

   (transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.

   (intransitive) The airplane pitched.

9. (golf, transitive) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.

   The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.

10. (cricket, intransitive) To bounce on the playing surface.

    The ball pitched well short of the batsman.

11. (Bristolian, of snow, intransitive) To settle and build up, without melting.

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[edit] Etymology 3

Unknown

[edit] Noun

pitch (plural pitches)

1. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

   The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

2. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

   Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

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[edit] Verb

to pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)

1. To produce a note of a given pitch.

[edit] References

• pitch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Notes:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese (in collaborazione con Oxford University Press). Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003. ISBN 8839551107. Online version here