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| 1. n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. |  |
| It is hard to get this pitch off my hand. | |
| 2. n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. | |
| They put pitch on the mast to protect it. | |
| The barrel was sealed with pitch. | |
| It was pitch black because there was no moon. | |
| 3. n. (geology) Pitchstone. | |
| 4. v. To cover or smear with pitch. | |
| 5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure. | |
| 6. n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. | |
| a good pitch in quoits | |
| 7. n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball. | |
| The pitch was low and inside. | |
| 8. n. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i | |
| The teams met on the pitch. | |
| 9. n. An effort to sell or promote something. | |
| He gave me a sales pitch. | |
| 10. n. 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 pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch. | |
| The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood. | |
| A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning. | |
| 11. n. The angle at which an object sits. | |
| the pitch of the roof or haystack | |
| 12. n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree. | |
| 13. n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis. | |
| 14. n. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare | |
| the pitch of an aircraft | |
| 15. n. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller. | |
| The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered. | |
| 16. n. The place where a busker performs. | |
| 17. n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader. | |
| 18. n. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar. | |
| 19. n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression. | |
| 20. n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances. | |
| 21. n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders. | |
| The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope. | |
| 22. n. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height. | |
| 23. n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. | |
| 24. n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. | |
| 25. n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant. | |
| a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof | |
| 26. n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. | |
| 27. v. To throw. | |
| He pitched the horseshoe. | |
| 28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. | |
| (transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball. | |
| (intransitive) He pitched high and inside. | |
| 29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher. | |
| Bob pitches today. | |
| 30. v. To throw away; discard. | |
| He pitched the candy wrapper. | |
| 31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell. | |
| He pitched the idea for months with no takers. | |
| 32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind. | |
| At which level should I pitch my presentation? | |
| 33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent). | |
| Pitch the tent over there. | |
| 34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. | |
| 35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down. | |
| (transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship. | |
| (intransitive) The airplane pitched. | |
| 36. v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin. | |
| The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker. | |
| 37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface. | |
| The ball pitched well short of the batsman. | |
| 38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting. | |
| 39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight. | |
| 40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice. | |
| 41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope. | |
| to pitch from a precipice | |
| The field pitches toward the east. | |
| 42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones. | |
| 43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix. | |
| 44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain. | |
| 45. n. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note. | |
| The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians. | |
| 46. n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by. | |
| Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start. | |
| 47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch. | |
| 48. v. To fix or set the tone of. | |
