pitch

Meanings

Noun

• A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• Pitchstone.
• A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• The act of pitching a baseball.
• The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in the US of America or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.
• An effort to sell or promote something.
• The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
• The angle at which an object sits.
• The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
• An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
• A level or degree, or , a peak or highest degree.
• A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
• Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
• The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
• A person's or animal's height.
• Prominence; importance.
• A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
• The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

Verb

• To cover or smear with pitch.
• To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• To throw.
• To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• To throw away; discard.
• To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• To assemble or erect (a tent).
• To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
• To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• To bounce on the playing surface.
• To settle and build up, without melting.
• To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• To fix one's choice.
• To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• To set or fix.
• To discard for some gain.
• To produce a note of a given pitch.
• To fix or set the tone of.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• football pitch

Origin

• From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik, Dutch pek, German Low German Pick, German Pech, and Spanish pegar ("to stick, glue").
• From Middle English picchen, pycchen, an assibilated variant of Middle English picken, pikken. More at pick.
• Unknown. Perhaps related to the above sense of level or degree, or influenced by it.