pitch
verb
- throw
- give a promotional presentation
- act as pitcher in a baseball game
- set up a tent
- set a musical tone
noun
- resin
- perceived frequency of a musical tone
- sports playing surface
- in baseball, the act of throwing the ball toward the home plate to start play
- rotation of a vehicle about the left-right axis
- brief presentation of an idea for film / television
- throw
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /pɪt͡ʃ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".
- Very dark black; pitch-black.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.”
- Intense, deep, dark.
“Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report.”
“If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out].”
noun
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from the above sense of "inclination", "level", or "degree", or influenced by it.
- The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
“The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.”
“Hertzian waves are not caused by vibrations of the ponderable matter of the brass balls, the form of which only determines the pitch.”
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
“Are we in baroque pitch for this one?”
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from the above sense of "inclination", "level", or "degree", or influenced by it.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
“[…] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.”
- To fix or set the tone of.
“His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.”
“I record voice messages in Russian, with my voice pitched to a sexy-baby timbre and a heavy American accent.”