Definitions for pitching

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pitching pitch·ing

Spelling: [pich-ing]

IPA: /ˈpɪtʃ ɪŋ/

Pitching is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in pitching (cghiinpt).

Definitions for pitching

noun

1. the act of revetting or paving with small stones.
2. stones so used.
3. relative point, position, or degree:
4. the degree of inclination or slope; angle:
5. the highest point or greatest height:
6. (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.
7. Music. the particular tonal standard with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative level.
8. Acoustics. the apparent predominant frequency sounded by an acoustical source.
9. act or manner of pitching.
10. a throw or toss.
11. Baseball. the serving of the ball to the batter by the pitcher, usually preceded by a windup or stretch.
12. a pitching movement or forward plunge, as of a ship.
13. upward or downward inclination or slope:
14. a sloping part or place:
15. a quantity of something pitched or placed somewhere.
16. Cricket. the central part of the field; the area between the wickets.
17. Informal. a high-pressure sales talk: a specific plan of action; angle:
18. the specific location in which a person or object is placed or stationed; allotted or assigned place.
19. Chiefly British. the established location, often a street corner, of a beggar, street peddler, newspaper vendor, etc.
20. 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.
21. the motion due to pitching. the extent of the rotation of the longitudinal axis involved in pitching.
22. Also called plunge. Geology. the inclination of a linear feature, as the axis of a fold or an oreshoot, from the horizontal.
23. 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.
24. (in carpet weaving) the weftwise number of warp ends, usually determined in relation to 27 inches (68.6 cm).
25. Cards. all fours (def 2). auction pitch.
26. Masonry. a true or even surface on a stone.
27. (of typewriter type) a unit of measurement indicating the number of characters to a horizontal inch:
28. 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.
29. any of certain bitumens, as asphalt:
30. any of various resins.
31. the sap or crude turpentine that exudes from the bark of pines.

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.

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:

Origin of pitching

First recorded in 1685-95; pitch¹ + -ing¹

Examples for pitching

Mrs. Blair staggered to her feet, entangled by her skirt, and pitching like a ship at sea.

If mother Coupeau has left us nothing, it's no reason for pitching her into the ground like a dog.

Caen was pitching and I was crouched behind the dish, catching.

He knows baseball, but all he knows about pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

We travelled from Merced to this place in our own wagons, pitching our tents every night.

Of course, if he's pitching, ordinarily he'll do as well as he can on his own account.

In 2000, Rocker was suspended by MLB, and by 2001 he was traded with his pitching in serious decline.

Still, it took writer Stephen Beresford twenty years of pitching his story around to get the film made.

That finding is a direct reflection of the original premise behind Roger Ailes pitching Fox News as “far and balanced.”

Eliot doesn't like me, and he isn't going to let me do any pitching.