[
US
/ˈpɪtʃɪŋ/
]
[ UK /pˈɪtʃɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪtʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team
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abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
the pitching and tossing was quite exciting
How To Use pitching In A Sentence
- His pitching was a legend among major league hitters.
- ‘We are pitching for new clients every week, and expanding our mid-cap company sector,’ he said.
- In a bunt, the aircraft experiences a rapid, uncontrolled, tight forward pitching rotation.
- He's a rookie, spent a year in the minors after pitching for Stanford.
- What a wonderful place the city had been to leave, as I looked down at it through the free and lucid air, the plane pitching in the thunderstorm which loomed as usual over Kenscoff.
- Great news for all you crazy Westlife fans who like to go camping - the fabulous fivesome will be appearing in the flesh at HMV next Friday so get pitching your tents!
- The experiment indicated that the angular rate sensor can sense the angular rate of pitching of rotating carrier.
- It was the "cluk-cluk" of water moving about inside the butt, its motion being caused by the pitching of the ship, and a slight rolling of the cask itself, which had not been steadily "cleated" in its place. The Boy Tar
- The dynamic hysteresis depend on reduced frequency pitching rates and pivot positions.
- It also places more importance on high pitching moments at high speeds, and less on the ones at low speeds.