English Dictionary

pitch

/pɪt͡ʃ/

verb

(transitive) To throw. / (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. / (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

He pitched the ball to his teammate.

意味（1）

(transitive) To throw.

He pitched the horseshoe.

意味（2）

(transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

The hurler pitched a curveball.

意味（3）

(intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

Bob pitches today.

意味（4）

(transitive) To throw away; discard.

He pitched the candy wrapper.

意味（5）

(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.

He pitched the idea for months with no takers.

意味（6）

(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.

At which level should I pitch my presentation?

意味（7）

(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).

Pitch the tent over there.

意味（8）

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

Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.

意味（9）

(transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

His bone leg steadied in that hole ; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud ; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.

意味（10）

(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.

意味（11）

(intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.

The ball pitched well short of the batsman.

意味（12）

(intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.

意味（13）

(intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch

意味（14）

(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.

Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.

意味（15）

(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.

to pitch from a precipice

意味（16）

(transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.

[…]pitch the road with hard stones [rather] than to break them up for a road covering

意味（17）

(transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.

Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie,

Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie, That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

意味（18）

(transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.

意味（19）

To attack, or position or assemble for attack.

They pitched at the waters of Merom. These waters of Merom are generally thought to be nothing but the lake of Semechon,[…]