Transcription
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- [pich]
- /pɪtʃ/
- /pɪtʃ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pich]
- /pɪtʃ/
Definitions of pitch word
- verb with object pitch to smear or cover with pitch. 1
- verb without object pitch to plunge or fall forward or headlong. 1
- verb without object pitch to lurch. 1
- verb without object pitch to throw or toss. 1
- verb without object pitch Baseball. to deliver or serve the ball to the batter. to fill the position of pitcher: He pitched for the Mets last year. 1
- verb without object pitch to slope downward; dip. 1
Information block about the term
Origin of pitch
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; (v.) Middle English picchen to thrust, pierce, set, set up (a tent, etc.), array, throw; perhaps akin to pick1; (noun) derivative of the v.
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Pitch
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pitch popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pitch usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pitch
noun pitch
- abruptness — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- advertising — Advertising is the activity of creating advertisements and making sure people see them.
- baccalaureate — The baccalaureate is an examination taken by students at the age of eighteen in France and some other countries.
- bevel — a surface that meets another at an angle other than a right angle
- big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
verb pitch
- address — Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
- advertise — If someone or something advertises a particular quality, they show it in their appearance or behaviour.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- aways — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- bailed — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
adj pitch
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- charcoal — Charcoal is a black substance obtained by burning wood without much air. It can be burned as a fuel, and small sticks of it are used for drawing with.
- coaler — a ship, train, etc, used to carry or supply coal
- ebon — ebony (def 6).
- melanoid — of or characterized by melanosis.
adjective pitch
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- inklike — Resembling ink.
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- onyx — Mineralogy. a variety of chalcedony having straight parallel bands of alternating colors. Compare Mexican onyx.
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