Definitions for pitch

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Spelling: [pich]

IPA: /pɪtʃ/

Pitch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in pitch (chipt).

Definitions for pitch

noun

1. relative point, position, or degree:
2. the degree of inclination or slope; angle:
3. the highest point or greatest height:
4. (in music, speech, etc.) the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations by which it is produced.
5. Music. the particular tonal standard with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative level.
6. Acoustics. the apparent predominant frequency sounded by an acoustical source.
7. act or manner of pitching.
8. a throw or toss.
9. Baseball. the serving of the ball to the batter by the pitcher, usually preceded by a windup or stretch.
10. a pitching movement or forward plunge, as of a ship.
11. upward or downward inclination or slope:
12. a sloping part or place:
13. a quantity of something pitched or placed somewhere.
14. Cricket. the central part of the field; the area between the wickets.
15. Informal. a high-pressure sales talk: a specific plan of action; angle:
16. the specific location in which a person or object is placed or stationed; allotted or assigned place.
17. Chiefly British. the established location, often a street corner, of a beggar, street peddler, newspaper vendor, etc.
18. Aeronautics. the nosing of an airplane or spacecraft up or down about a transverse axis. the distance that a given propeller would advance in one revolution.
19. the motion due to pitching. the extent of the rotation of the longitudinal axis involved in pitching.
20. Also called plunge. Geology. the inclination of a linear feature, as the axis of a fold or an oreshoot, from the horizontal.
21. Machinery. the distance between the corresponding surfaces of two adjacent gear teeth measured either along the pitch circle (circular pitch) or between perpendiculars to the root surfaces (normal pitch) the ratio of the number of teeth in a gear or splined shaft to the pitch circle diameter, expressed in inches. the distance between any two adjacent things in a series, as screw threads, rivets, etc.
22. (in carpet weaving) the weftwise number of warp ends, usually determined in relation to 27 inches (68.6 cm).
23. Cards. all fours (def 2). auction pitch.
24. Masonry. a true or even surface on a stone.
25. (of typewriter type) a unit of measurement indicating the number of characters to a horizontal inch:
26. any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
27. any of certain bitumens, as asphalt:
28. any of various resins.
29. the sap or crude turpentine that exudes from the bark of pines.

Verb phrases

1. pitch in, Informal. to begin to work in earnest and vigorously: to contribute to a common cause; join in:
2. pitch into, Informal. to attack verbally or physically: to begin to work on vigorously.
3. pitch on/upon, to choose, especially casually or without forethought; decide on:

verb (used with object)

1. to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
2. to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position.
3. to throw, fling, hurl, or toss.
4. Baseball. to deliver or serve (the ball) to the batter. to fill the position of pitcher in (a game): to choose or assign as a pitcher for a game:
5. to set at a certain point, degree, level, etc.:
6. Music. to set at a particular pitch, or determine the key or keynote of (a melody).
7. Cards. to lead (a card of a particular suit), thereby fixing that suit as trump. to determine (the trump) in this manner.
8. to pave or revet with small stones.
9. Masonry. to square (a stone), cutting the arrises true with a chisel. to cut with a chisel.
10. Informal. to attempt to sell or win approval for; promote; advertise:
11. Informal. to approach or court (as a person, company, or the public) in hope of a sale, approval, or interest; make an appeal to.
12. to cause to pitch.
13. Obsolete. to set in order; to arrange, as a field of battle.
14. Obsolete. to fix firmly as in the ground; embed.
15. to smear or cover with pitch.

verb (used without object)

1. to plunge or fall forward or headlong.
2. to lurch.
3. to throw or toss.
4. Baseball. to deliver or serve the ball to the batter. to fill the position of pitcher:
5. to slope downward; dip.
6. to plunge with alternate fall and rise of bow and stern, as a ship (opposed to roll).
7. (of a rocket or guided missile) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by oscillations of the longitudinal axis in a vertical plane about the center of gravity.
8. to fix a tent or temporary habitation; encamp:
9. Golf. to play a pitch shot.
10. Informal. to attempt to sell or win approval for something or someone by advertising, promotion, etc.:
11. Rare. to become established; settle down.

Origin of pitch

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English picchen to thrust, pierce, set, set up (a tent, etc.), array, throw; perhaps akin to pick¹; (noun

Examples for pitch

The captain had ordered Cooper to boil some pitch at the galley.

Then the body had become a "mummy" because it was filled with "Mumiai" or pitch.

If the pitch remains the same but the seat becomes slimmer, the result should be more body room, right?

The picture became obscured, and presently it was pitch dark.

With the bases loaded, the ultimately rational Palmer always throws every pitch at a corner--even with three balls on the batter.

They told how Tomo was wrought to a pitch of frenzied interest by this manhunt.

Ebola will fade enough for the Democrats to make this pitch by next week.

In the same cabin, the business class has flat beds with a 70-inch pitch.

Draw a diagram representing the circumference line and pitch in feet.

Downtown Perry, Georgia is the sort of place you could roll a ball through with one pitch.