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ALL meanings of pitch

pitch
P p
  • verb transitive pitch to determine or set the key of (a tune, an instrument, or the voice) 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to encamp 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to take up one's position; settle 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to hurl or toss anything, as hay, a baseball, etc. 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to fall or plunge headlong 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to incline downward; dip 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to plunge or toss with the bow and stern rising and falling abruptly 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to move in a like manner in the air 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to plunge forward; lurch, as when off balance 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to act as pitcher in a ballgame 0
  • intransitive verb pitch to loft a golf ball, as in making an approach 0
  • noun pitch act or manner of pitching 0
  • noun pitch a throw; fling; toss; specif., a throw by a pitcher to a batter 0
  • noun pitch the rising and falling of the bow and stern of a ship in a rough sea 0
  • noun pitch the movement up or down of the nose and tail of an airplane 0
  • noun pitch anything pitched 0
  • noun pitch the amount pitched 0
  • noun pitch a point or degree 0
  • noun pitch the degree of slope or inclination 0
  • noun pitch a card game of the all-fours family in which the suit of the first card led becomes trump 0
  • noun pitch a line of talk, such as a salesman uses to persuade customers 0
  • noun pitch a playing field 0
  • noun pitch a place, often assigned, for pitching a tent or parking a trailer, etc. 0
  • noun pitch a place where a street vendor, street performer, racecourse bookmaker, etc. sets up his stand 0
  • noun pitch the adjustable blade angle of the propeller or rotor blade 0
  • noun pitch the distance advanced by a propeller in one revolution 0
  • noun pitch the slope of the sides of a roof, expressed by the ratio of its height to its span 0
  • noun pitch the dip of a stratum or vein 0
  • noun pitch a short, lofted shot, usually to the green 0
  • noun pitch the distance between corresponding points on two adjacent gear teeth 0
  • noun pitch the distance between corresponding points on two adjacent threads of a screw, measured along the axis 0
  • noun pitch that element of a tone or sound determined by the frequency of vibration of the sound waves reaching the ear: the greater the frequency, the higher the pitch 0
  • noun pitch a tone used as a standard of pitch for tuning instruments 0
  • noun pitch a black, sticky substance formed in the distillation of coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc. and used for waterproofing, roofing, pavements, etc. 0
  • noun pitch any of certain bitumens, as asphalt, asphaltite, etc. 0
  • noun pitch a resin found in certain evergreen trees 0
  • noun pitch any of various synthetic substances having pitchlike properties 0
  • verb transitive pitch to cover or smear with or as with pitch 0
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