- to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position.
- to throw, fling, hurl, or toss.
- Baseball.
- to deliver or serve (the ball) to the batter.
- to fill the position of pitcher in (a game): He pitched a no-hitter. He pitched a good game.
- to choose or assign as a pitcher for a game: The manager pitched Greene the next night.
- to set at a certain point, degree, level, etc.: He pitched his hopes too high.
- to set at a particular pitch, or determine the key or keynote of (a melody).
- Cards.
- to lead (a card of a particular suit), thereby fixing that suit as trump.
- to determine (the trump) in this manner.
- to pave or revet with small stones.
- Masonry.
- to square (a stone), cutting the arrises true with a chisel.
- to cut with a chisel.
- to attempt to sell or win approval for; promote; advertise: to pitch breakfast foods at a sales convention.
- to approach or court (as a person, company, or the public) in hope of a sale, approval, or interest; make an appeal to.
- to cause to pitch.
- to set in order; to arrange, as a field of battle.
- to fix firmly as in the ground; embed.
- to plunge or fall forward or headlong.
- to lurch.
- to throw or toss.
- Baseball.
- to deliver or serve the ball to the batter.
- to fill the position of pitcher He pitched for the Mets last year.
- to slope downward; dip.
- to plunge with alternate fall and rise of bow and stern, as a ship (opposed to roll).
- (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.
- to fix a tent or temporary habitation; encamp: They pitched by a mountain stream.
- to play a pitch shot.
- to attempt to sell or win approval for something or someone by advertising, promotion, etc.: politicians pitching on TV.
- to become established; settle down.
- relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- the degree of inclination or slope; angle: the pitch of an arch; the pitch of a stair.
- the highest point or greatest height: enjoying the pitch of success.
- (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.
- the particular tonal standard with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative level.
- the apparent predominant frequency sounded by an acoustical source.
- act or manner of pitching.
- a throw or toss.
- the serving of the ball to the batter by the pitcher, usually preceded by a windup or stretch.
- a pitching movement or forward plunge, as of a ship.
- upward or downward inclination or slope: a road descending at a steep pitch.
- a sloping part or place: to build on the pitch of a hill.
- a quantity of something pitched or placed somewhere.
- the central part of the field; the area between the wickets.
- Informal.
- an often high-pressured talk or message intended to sell or win approval for something: a sales pitch for a new product;an email pitch to gain support for a proposal.
- a specific plan of action; angle: to tackle a problem again, using a new pitch.
- the specific location in which a person or object is placed or stationed; allotted or assigned place.
- the established location, often a street corner, of a beggar, street peddler, newspaper vendor, etc.
- 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.
- (of a rocket or guided missile)
- the motion due to pitching.
- the extent of the rotation of the longitudinal axis involved in pitching.
- the inclination of a linear feature, as the axis of a fold or an oreshoot, from the horizontal.
- 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.
- (in carpet weaving) the weftwise number of warp ends, usually determined in relation to 27 inches (68.6 centimeters).
- Cards.
- a true or even surface on a stone.
- (of typewriter type) a unit of measurement indicating the number of characters to a horizontal inch: Pica is a 10-pitch type.
- pitch in, Informal.
- to begin to work in earnest and vigorously: If I really pitch in, I may be able to finish the paper before the deadline.
- to contribute to a common cause; join in: When they took up a collection for the annual dinner, he promised to pitch in.
- pitch into, Informal.
- to attack verbally or physically: He apologized for pitching into me yesterday.
- to begin to work on vigorously.
- to choose, especially casually or without forethought; decide on: We pitched on a day for our picnic.
- 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.
- any of certain bitumens, as asphalt: mineral pitch.
- any of various resins.
- the sap or crude turpentine that exudes from the bark of pines.
- to smear or cover with pitch.
- to hurl or throw (something); cast; fling
- to set up (a camp, tent, etc)
- to place or thrust (a stake, spear, etc) into the ground
- to move vigorously or irregularly to and fro or up and down
- to aim or fix (something) at a particular level, position, style, etc
- to aim to sell (a product) to a specified market or on a specified basis
- to slope downwards
- to fall forwards or downwards
- (of a vessel) to dip and raise its bow and stern alternately
- to bowl (a ball) so that it bounces on a certain part of the wicket, or (of a ball) to bounce on a certain part of the wicket
- (of a missile, aircraft, etc) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by movement of the longitudinal axis about the lateral axis
- (in golf) to hit (a ball) steeply into the air, esp with backspin to minimize roll
- (tr) music
- to sing or play accurately (a note, interval, etc)
- (of a wind instrument) to specify or indicate its basic key or harmonic series by its size, manufacture, etc
- to lead (a suit) and so determine trumps for that trick
- baseball
- to throw (a baseball) to a batter
- to act as pitcher in a baseball game
- to snow without the settled snow melting
- taking part with enthusiasm
- to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
- the degree of elevation or depression
- the angle of descent of a downward slope
- such a slope
- the extreme height or depth
- a section of a route between two belay points, sometimes equal to the full length of the rope but often shorter
- the degree of slope of a roof, esp when expressed as a ratio of height to span
- the distance between corresponding points on adjacent members of a body of regular form, esp the distance between teeth on a gearwheel or between threads on a screw thread
- the distance between regularly spaced objects such as rivets, bolts, etc
- the pitching motion of a ship, missile, etc
- the distance a propeller advances in one revolution, assuming no slip
- the blade angle of a propeller or rotor
- the distance between the back rest of a seat in a passenger aircraft and the back of the seat in front of it
- music
- the auditory property of a note that is conditioned by its frequency relative to other notes
- an absolute frequency assigned to a specific note, fixing the relative frequencies of all other notes. The fundamental frequencies of the notes A–G, in accordance with the frequency A = 440 hertz, were internationally standardized and accepted in 1939
- the rectangular area between the stumps, 22 yards long and 10 feet wide; the wicket
- the inclination of the axis of an anticline or syncline or of a stratum or vein from the horizontal
- another name for seven-up
- the act or manner of pitching a ball, as in cricket
- a vendor's station, esp on a pavement
- a persuasive sales talk, esp one routinely repeated
- (in many sports) the field of play
- an approach shot in which the ball is struck in a high arc
- make a pitch for US and Canadian slang
- to give verbal support to
- to attempt to attract (someone) sexually or romantically
- to upset someone's plans
- any of various heavy dark viscid substances obtained as a residue from the distillation of tars
- any of various similar substances, such as asphalt, occurring as natural deposits
- any of various similar substances obtained by distilling certain organic substances so that they are incompletely carbonized
- crude turpentine obtained as sap from pine trees
- to apply pitch to (something)