pitch

Noun

pitch (plural pitches)

1. a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap

   It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand.

2. 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.

3. (baseball) the act of pitching a baseball

   The pitch was low and inside.

4. (sports) the field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played

   The teams met on the pitch.

5. an effort to sell or promote something

   He gave me a sales pitch.

6. the distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw 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.

7. the angle at which an object sits

   The pitch of the roof or haystack, the propellor blades" pitch

8. more specifically, the rotation angle about the transverse axis

   The pitch of an aircraft

9. the perceived frequency of a sound or note

   The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

10. 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.

5 letters in word "pitch": C H I P T.

No anagrams for pitch found in this word list.

Words found within pitch:

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• Definitions:
• flip: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" lurch: move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left" the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony" set to a certain pitch; "He pitched his voice very low" (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter peddle: sell or offer for sale from place to place 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" sales talk: promotion by means of an argument and demonstration slope: be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch" cant: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" a high approach shot in golf deliver: throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball" an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin lead (a card) and establish the trump suit lurch: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" the action or manner of throwing something; "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor" gear: set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
• Pitch is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids which appear solid. Pitch can be made from petroleum products or plants. Petroleum-derived pitch is also called bitumen. Pitch produced from plants is also known as resin. Products made from plant resin are also known as rosin.
• Pitch is a Canadian documentary in which two young filmmakers, Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice attend the Toronto Film Festival and pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled The Dawn, concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. ...
• Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a longitudinal wave, and therefore is a mechanical wave. Sound is characterized by the properties of sound waves, which are frequency, wavelength, period, amplitude, and speed.
• Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. While the actual fundamental frequency can be precisely determined through physical measurement, it may differ from the perceived pitch because of overtones, or partials, in the sound. ...
• A pitch is an open outdoor area for various activities. It is used in British and Australian English; the comparable term in American English is field. However, there are some differences, as a cricket field contains the cricket pitch.
• In baseball, a pitch is the act of throwing a baseball toward home plate to start a play. The term comes from the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, the ball had to be literally "pitched" underhand, as with pitching horseshoes. Overhand throwing was not allowed in baseball until 1894.
• Pitch is a card game played with a standard 52-card pack of playing cards. It may be played by three players (cutthroat) or by four players organized in teams of two. Pitch involves bidding and trick-taking. Pitch may involve betting or gambling of any sort. ...
• A pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film, generally made by a screenwriter or director to a producer or studio executive in the hope of attracting development finance to pay for a screenplay to be written. ...
• To a good approximation the perceived pitch of a sine wave is directly related to the frequency of the sound.
• In rock climbing and ice climbing, a pitch is a steep section of a route that requires a rope between two belays, as part of a climbing system. ...
• To verbally describe a property to a potential buyer in the hope it will be bought.
• the center-to-center spacing between conductors, such as pads and pins, on a board.
• In flat cable, the normal distance between the index edges of two adjacent conductors.
• The pitch of a note is determined by the frequency of the sound wave. The higher the frequency of a note, the higher its pitch. See Frequency.
• The rate at which a roof or other surface slopes.
• A sudden drop in, or steeper section of, a set of rapids.
• The distance between the centers of two adjacent pixels in an array.
• a short-range shot that travels fairly high into the air.
• A reasonably high shot onto the green, traveling anything from a few yards to 120 yards (110m). You generally use a 9 iron, a pitching wedge, or a sand wedge.
• The angle of slope of a roof.
• The degree of slope of a roof.
• A measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down. Also a measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
• A lofted shot to a green that produces little run at the end of its flight.
• Rotation of a barcode symbol about an axis parallel to the direction of the bars.
• The presentation of an advertising message to a prospective or existing client.
• The pitch of a roof is the degree of the inclination upward from horizontal or flat. It may be expressed in degrees or as the ratio of the number of inches it rises in each 12 inches of horizontal span: 4/12 means the roof rises four inches in every foot of horizontal span.
• The highness or lowness of a tone, as determined by the frequency of vibrations per second.
• Downward slope of a drain pipe in the direction of the water flow.
• The angle at which a hole is drilled into a bowling ball.
• The degree of roof incline expressed as the ratio of the rise, in feet, to the span, in feet.
• A short lofted shot from around the green that goes high and doesn’t roll all that far after landing
• (a) The incline slope of a roof or the ratio of the total rise to the total width of a house, ie, an 8-foot rise and 24-foot width is a one-third pitch roof. Roof slope is expressed in the inches of rise per foot of run. A term frequently used to designate coal tar pitch.
• To add yeast to wort.
• (film stock) - the spacing between perforations.
• The rotation of a car about a horizontal axis, which causes its nose or tail to bob up and down. Dive and squat are pitching motions.

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