Definition of Pitch

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Definition of Pitch

Pitch

The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

See Pitchstone.

To cover over or smear with pitch.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

To set or fix, as a price or value.

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

Height; stature.

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.

The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.

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Pitch Quotations

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Hank Aaron

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
Wanda Sykes

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
Wanda Sykes

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks

All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Chevy Chase

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
Jose Mourinho

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus

Pitch Translations

pitch in Swedish is lutning

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