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1. (of a black color) Intense, deep, dark.Examples: "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]."; "For some of us postpartum depression is the pitchest black we have ever known. From the dark womb we welcome new life, and our own new life, a life we haven't known, unfolds[…]"

1. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.Examples: "The pitch was low and inside."

2. (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)Examples: "The teams met on the pitch."AustraliaNew-ZealandUK

3. (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.

4. (rare) The field of battle.Examples: "“The two men of Alltraighe maintain, Two chiefs of the plain of Kerry, A clan the most active in pitch of battle, Their chiefs are O’Neide and Clan Conary.”"; "Every other day they would spend half of the training hours on the battle pitch."; "George’s cult was popular in the east because of his legendary feats on the battle pitch and because of the location of his tomb, which was a pilgrimage site."rare

5. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.Examples: "the pitch of an aircraft"

6. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.Examples: "The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered."

1. (transitive) To throw.Examples: "He pitched the horseshoe."Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashtransitive

2. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.Examples: "The hurler pitched a curveball."; "He pitched high and inside."intransitivetransitive

3. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.Examples: "Bob pitches today."intransitive

4. (transitive) To throw away; discard.Examples: "He pitched the candy wrapper."Synonyms: cast aside, throw away, junk, 86, bin, can, cast aside, cast offtransitive

5. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.Examples: "He pitched the idea for months with no takers."transitive

6. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.Examples: "At which level should I pitch my presentation?"transitive

1. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.Examples: "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."countableuncountable

2. (music) 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.Examples: "Are we in baroque pitch for this one?"countableuncountable

3. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.Examples: "Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start."countableuncountable

1. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.Examples: "[…] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher."intransitive

2. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.Examples: "His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it."transitive