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UK
/pˈɪtʃ/
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[ US /ˈpɪtʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
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degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
the roof had a steep pitch - promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- a high approach shot in golf
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the action or manner of throwing something
his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
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a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors - an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
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abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
the pitching and tossing was quite exciting - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
VERB
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be at an angle
The terrain sloped down - lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
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throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
The pitcher delivered the ball -
fall or plunge forward
She pitched over the railing of the balcony -
set the level or character of
She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience -
move abruptly
The ship suddenly lurched to the left -
set to a certain pitch
He pitched his voice very low -
heel over
The tower is tilting
The ceiling is slanting - sell or offer for sale from place to place
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
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throw or toss with a light motion
flip me the beachball
toss me newspaper -
erect and fasten
pitch a tent
How To Use pitch In A Sentence
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin. The Complete Father Brown
- Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
- Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?
- Or is the idea of foreign policy beyondmilitary commitmentsso far off the radar that when the polls open, everything will hinge on the pitch-and-toss of national concerns? And Now, The Choice « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
- “You come to make a sales pitch?” he asked grouchily. Fatal Circle
- Wells was stuffed on a pitchout on fourth-and-one from the Houston 45.
- Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
- Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
- When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher. WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
