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Definition: Pitch |
PitchNoun1. The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration. 2. (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter. 3. (British) 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". 4. Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration. 5. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane: "the roof had a steep pitch". 6. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue. 7. A high approach shot in golf. 8. An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump. 9. Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting". 10. : the action or manner of throwing something; "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor". Verb1. Throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper". 2. Move abruptly. 3. Fall forwards. 4. Set to a certain pitch, as of an instrument or one's voice; "He pitched his voice very low". 5. Sell or offer for sale from place to place. 6. Be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down". 7. Heel over. 8. Erect and fasten; "pitch a tent". 9. Throw or hurl, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball". 10. : erect and fix firmly in place; "They pitched the roof at a steep slant". 11. : cause to be at a particular level; "She pitched her aspirations too high". 12. : set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pitch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Pitch \Pitch\, noun. [Old English pich, Anglo-Saxon pic, Latin pix; akin to Greek.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. Of a vehicle, an angular displacement about an axis parallel to the lateral axis of the vehicle. 2. In acoustics, that attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds may be ordered on a scale extending from low to high.Pitch depends primarily upon the frequency of the sound stimulus, but it also depends upon the sound pressure and waveform of the stimulus. The pitch of a sound may be described by the frequency or frequency level of that simple tone having a specified sound pressure level which is judged by listeners to produce the same pitch. (references) |
Bible | Pitch (Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found in pits near the Dead Sea (q.v.). It was used for various purposes, as the coating of the outside of vessels and in building. Allusion is made in Isa. 34:9 to its inflammable character. (See SLIME.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building | The angle of slope of a roof. (references) |
Computing | A word-processing term for the(unvarying)width of the escapement of all graphic characters in a given font. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Rotation kring en axel vilken är vinkelrät mot kroppens längsgående axel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | In air photography, the camera rotation about the transverse axis of the aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Downward inclination of a body. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A comprehensive term for secretions of certain trees, or of insects feeding on them, which are oxidation or polymerisation products of the terpenes, consisting of mixtures of aromatic acids and esters insoluble in water but soluble in e. g. ether, alcohol and other organic solvents; often exuding from wounds and obtained commercially by tapping or by extraction with solvents. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | The inclination of a rock stratum from the horizontal, the angle between its maximum slope and the horizontal being the true dip. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The angle at which the bevel of a cutter meets some stated plane of reference. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Pitch Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. "The finger that touches rougs will be red." "Evil communications corrupt good manners" "A rotten apple injures its companions." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | For single-start threads the same as the lead. For n-start threads pitch = lead/n. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The subjective awareness of the frequency or spectral distribution of a sound. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The angle between the horizontal and any linear feature, such as an ore shoot or lineation, measured in the plane containing the linear feature. See also:rake b. The angle between the horizontal and an axial line passing through the highest or lowest points of a given stratum in an anticline or syncline. c. Loosely, the grade, rise, or incline of a seam or bed. d. A vein-form deposit that follows dipping joint planes. This usage is confined largely to the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc deposits. e. The slope of a roof, in inches (or centimeters), of vertical rise per horizontal foot (or meter). f. The distance between tooth centers, as in a gear wheel, or the number of teeth per unit of diameter. See also:pitch line g. The grade of an incline or the rise of a coal seam h. The solid or semisolid residue from the partial evaporation of tar. Strictly, pitch is a bitumen with extraneous matter, such as free carbon, residual coke, etc i. The angular inclination of an ore shoot with respect to the surface, measured in the direction of the strike j. Of a lode, angle of deviation from the vertical taken by a section of ore having some special characteristic, such as enhanced value. (references) |
Physics | The rotation of an aircraft or ship about its lateral axis. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pitch can refer to any of the following:Also:
- Pitch (music) -- The property of a musical tone determined by its frequency
- In linguistics pitch, or tone of voice, refers to variation of tone in tonal language, and in languages with melodic accent
- Pitch (resin) -- Any of several types of resins
- Tar pitch or bitumen
- Pitch (card game) -- A bidding, point-taking game usually played in partnership
- Pitch (geographic) -- A vertical space; a term originally used in mining, now also used in the sports of caving and climbing
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- To set up a tent
- The angle of a roof or road
- A measure related to the angle of a propeller, or to an aircraft's attitude (nose up or nose down)
- A measure of the degree to which an air or sea vessel's nose tilts up or down
- The distance between dots in a computer display (also called "dot pitch"), lines on a page, threads on a screw, or teeth on a gear
- The delivery of a baseball
- A delivery of a golf ball with backspin
- A sales presentation
- An outdoor location, as for camping or open-air gatherings
- A field on which several sports are played:
- The center of a cricket field
- In the fictional game of Quidditch, the entire field
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pitch."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In music, pitch refers to the perception of the frequency of a note. For example, the A above middle C is nowadays set at 440 hertz (often written as "A=440 Hz", and known as concert pitch), although this has not always been the case (see #Historical pitch standards). However, the phrase "pitch difference" is sometimes used to mean frequency ratio. It must be noted that pitch is something we perceive. A slight change in frequency need not mean a change in pitch but a change in pitch implies a change in frequency. Like other human stimuli, the perception of pitch also can be explained by the Weber-Fechner Law.
The relative pitches of individual notes in a scale may be determined by one of a number of tuning systems. In the west, the twelve-note chromatic scale is the most common method of organisation, with equal temperament now the most widely used method of tuning that scale. In it, the pitch ratio between any two successive notes of the scale is exactly the twelfth root of two. In well-tempered systems (as used in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, for example), different methods of musical tuning were used. Almost all of these systems have one interval in common, the octave, where the pitch of one note is double the frequency of another. For example, if the A above middle C is 440 Hz, the A an octave above that will be 880 Hz.
Like other senses, the relative perception of pitch can be fooled, resulting in "audio illusions". There are several of these, such as the tritone paradox, but most notably the Shepard scale, where a continuous or discrete sequence of specially formed tones can be made to sound like this sequence continues ascending forever, when this in fact is a clever audio illusion.
Historical pitch standards
As well as various systems of musical tuning being used to determine the relative frequency of notes in a scale, various pitch standards have been used historically to fix the absolute position of the scale. In 1955, the International Organization for Standardization fixed the frequency of the A above middle C at 440 Hz, but in the past, various frequencies have been used.
Until the 19th century, there was no concerted effort to standardize musical pitch and the levels across Europe varied widely. Even within one church, the pitch used could vary over time because of the way organss were tuned. Generally, the end of an organ pipe would be hammered inwards to a cone, or flared outwards to raise or lower the pitch. When the pipe ends became frayed by this constant process, they were all trimmed down, thus raising the overall pitch of the organ.
Some idea of the variance in pitches can be gained by examining old tuning forks, organ pipes and other sources. For example, an English pitchpipe from 1720 plays the A above middle C at 380 Hz, while the organss played by Johann Sebastian Bach in Hamburg, Leipzig and Weimar were pitched at A=480 Hz, a difference of around four semitones. In other words, the A produced by the 1720 pitchpipe would have been at the same frequency as the F on one of Bach's organs.
Pitch levels did not just vary from place to place, or over time - pitch levels could vary even within the same city. The pitch used for an English cathedral organ in the 17th century for example, could be as much as five semitones lower than that used for a domestic keyboard instrument in the same city.
The need to standardize pitch levels, at least within one city or country, rose as performance of music which combined the organ with instrumental ensembles became more popular. One way in which pitch could be controlled was with the use of tuning forks, although even here there was variation - a tuning fork associated with Handel, dating from 1740, is pitched at A=422.5 Hz, while a later one from 1780 is pitched at A=409 Hz, almost a semitone lower. Nonetheless, there was a tendency towards the end of the 18th century for the frequency of the A above middle C to be in the range of 400 to 450 Hz.
Throughout the first half of the 19th century, there was a tendency for the pitch used by orchestras to rise. This was probably largely due to orchestras competing with each other, each attempting to fill increasingly large concert halls with a brighter, more "brilliant", sound than that of their rivals. They were helped in this endeavour by the improved durability of the violins' E-strings - in the 16th century, Michael Praetorius had rejected various high pitch standards as leading to snapped strings, but the new strings could take the higher tension without breaking.
The rise in pitch at this time can be seen reflected in tuning forks. A 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A=423.2 Hz, while one of eleven years later from the same opera house gives A=435 Hz. At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as 451 Hz.
The most vocal opponents of the upward tendency in pitch were singers, who complained that it was putting a strain on their voices. Largely due to their protestations, the French government passed a law on February 16, 1859 which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the diapason normal. It became quite a popular pitch standard outside of France as well.
There were still variations, however. The diapason normal resulted in middle C being tuned at approximately 258.65 Hz. An alternative pitch standard known as philosophical or scientific pitch, which fixed middle C at exactly 256 Hz (that is, 28 Hz), and resulted in the A above it being tuned to approximately 430.54 Hz, gained some popularity due to its mathematical convenience (the frequencies of all the Cs being a power of two). This never received the same official recognition as A=435, however, and was not as widely used.
In 1939, an international conference recommended that the A above middle C be tuned to 440 Hz. This standard was taken up by the International Organization for Standardization in 1955 (and was reaffirmed by them in 1975) as ISO 16. The difference between this and the diapason normal is due to confusion over which temperature the French standard should be measured at. The initial standard was A=439 Hz, but this was superseded by A=440 Hz after complaints that 439 Hz was difficult to reproduce in a laboratory owing to 439 being a prime number.
Despite such confusion, A=440 Hz is now used virtually world wide, at least in theory. In practice, as orchestras still tune to a note given out by the oboe, rather than to an electronic tuning device (which would be more reliable), and as the oboist himself may not have used such a device to tune in the first place, there is still some variance in the exact pitch used. Solo instruments such as the piano (which an orchestra may tune to if they are playing together) are also not universally tuned to A=440 Hz. Overall, it is thought that the general trend since the middle of the 20th century has been for standard pitch to rise, though it has certainly been rising far more slowly than it has in the past..
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pitch (music)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pitch is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids which appears solid, most commonly bitumen.Unlike glass, pitch flows at room temperature, very very slowly. The pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years.
External links
- The Pitch Drop experiment
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pitch (resin)."
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Pitch is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids which appears solid, most commonly bitumen.Unlike glass, tar pitch flows at room temperature, very very slowly. The pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years.
External links
- The Pitch Drop experiment
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pitch drop experiment."
Synonyms: PitchSynonyms: auction pitch (n), delivery (n), lurch (n), pitch shot (n), pitching (n), rake (n), sales pitch (n), sales talk (n), slant (n), tar (n), cant (v), cant over (v), deliver (v), flip (v), gear (v), hawk (v), huckster (v), incline (v), monger (v), peddle (v), set up (v), shift (v), sky (v), slope (v), tilt (v), toss (v), vend (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: lay-by (industry, meteorology & standards). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Degree | Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort. |
Depression | Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate. |
Descent | Tumble, trip, stumble, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper. |
Evolution | Fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; AdVerb: pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter. |
Height | Noun: height, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; Adjective: sublimity. |
Location | Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in. |
Regression | Verb: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip. |
Resin | Noun: resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber, ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan. |
Summit | Noun: summit, summity; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole. |
Term | Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pitch |
| English words defined with "pitch": absolute pitch ♦ concert pitch ♦ Diametral pitch ♦ high pitch ♦ international pitch ♦ low pitch ♦ perfect pitch, philharmonic pitch, pitch accent, Pitch and toss, Pitch circle, pitch contour, Pitch farthing, Pitch line, Pitch of a roof, Pitch pine, Pitch pipe, Pitch point ♦ Radical pitch ♦ Stone pitch, submarine pitch ♦ wild pitch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pitch": chordal pitch, coal-tar pitch ♦ Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot, dot pitch ♦ involute and pitch testing machine ♦ Pitch Angle, Pitch Control, PITCH FILLER, PITCH FINGER, Pitch into Him, PITCH WORKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pitch": Tone. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Walk him and pitch to the rhino (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) This is a sales pitch. It's not going to be won by the law, it's going to be won by the lawyers (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) In case you haven't caught on by now, this girl's gonna do what she's gonna do no matter what you or anyone else says, so you've got two choices: back off or pitch in. (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra) Pitch in and help him. (The Thin Man; writing credit: Dashiell Hammett; Albert Hackett) It couldn't possibly have anything to do with your sales pitch. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fever Pitch (2003) The Perfect Pitch (2002) Fever Pitch (2001) | |
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![]() | Birch Island glacial sculpted smooth rocky point with ospreys on pitch pine. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pitch pine - Pinus rigida. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
![]() | At smaller osmotic pressure long DNA fragments exist in a cholesteric phase, characterised by the cholesteric pitch and pronounced positional disorder. Credit: NICHD. | ![]() | You'll have to get in there and pitch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and "Pitch" the mascot. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Pitch, the ship's mascot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Empty barrels which had contained pitch from the turpentine pine at still, State Line, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mitchell Field. Business end of a bomber engine. The controllable pitch housing in the propeller hub assembly contains the mechanism that automatically adjusts the set of the three propellers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Private Philip A. Zilinsky, propeller specialist with a mobile unit checking the pitch of a propeller. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Pitch in your opinions : Liberal Democratic Party, responsible for the 100 million. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pitch adj." by Stuart Creegan Commentary: "Turntable ptich adjuster." | "Time travel" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "Civil War actors pitch their tents around a space exhibit at Navarro College, Corsicana, TX." |
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| Highly active spacy texture with staccato melody and a pitch bend. | A large group of men chanting in unison rhythm and pitch. | ||
| Sharp pitch. | A mid tone bell being struck with a sustained pitch. | ||
| A note struck on a small-sized tympani yielding a high pitch. | |||
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| Author | Quotation |
James Montgomery | Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. |
Jonathan Swift | She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. |
Joseph Addison | The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It was no wonder that they should pitch upon, and naturally run into that form of government, which from their infancy they had been all accustomed to; and which, by experience, they had found both easy and safe. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Convention of November 16 and 19, 1885, regarding the establishment of a concert pitch. (reference) |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | The suns blazed into the pitch of space and a low ghostly music floated through the bridge: Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Greek fire did not dishonour Archimedes, boiling pitch did not dishonour Bayard |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was pitch dark almost |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Here pitch our tent, even here in Bosworth field |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The high hum of the motor dulled and the song of the tires dropped in pitch. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines, into a larger wood about the swamp |
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Health | Changes in voice quality, such as loss of volume or pitch, may also be noticeable. (references) | |
Vocal misuse is improper voice usage such as speaking too loudly or at an abnormally high or low pitch. (references) | ||
Ask for help when you need it. Ask family and friends to pitch in with things like child care, shopping, housework, or driving. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. 'Twas a pair of boots that the lady bought, And the salesman laced them tight To a very remarkable height -- Higher, indeed, than I think he ought -- Higher than can be right. For the Bible declares -- but never mind: It is hardly fit To censure freely and fault to find With others for sins that I'm not inclined Myself to commit. Each has his weakness, and though my own Is freedom from every sin, It still were unfair to pitch in, Discharging the first censorious stone. Besides, the truth compels me to say, The boots in question were made that way. As he drew the lace she made a grimace, And blushingly said to him: "This boot, I'm sure, is too high to endure, It hurts my -- hurts my -- limb." The salesman smiled in a manner mild, Like an artless, undesigning child; Then, checking himself, to his face he gave A look as sorrowful as the grave, Though he didn't care two figs For her paints and throes, As he stroked her toes, Remarking with speech and manner just Befitting his calling: "Madam, I trust That it doesn't hurt your twigs." B. Percival Dike |
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Robert Novak | Governor Thompson was also, I thought, clear on being against human cloning. The president did make a big pitch for the bill to abolish human cloning about a week ago, two weeks ago, but he hasn't said anything much since. |
Tim McGraw | Watched him pitch. It was first time I had ever been out of Louisiana, I think. Might have went to Florida to my grandmothers maybe once before. |
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| "Pitch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.93% of the time. "Pitch" is used about 2,717 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.93% | 2,579 | 3,540 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.45% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.59% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,717 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pitch" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pitch | Last name | 100 | 79,761 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pitch". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pisidia | N/A | Biblical | Pitch |
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Expressions using "pitch": absolute pitch ♦ adjustable pitch propeller ♦ Amboyna pitch ♦ as black as pitch ♦ as dark as pitch ♦ at concert pitch ♦ at its highest pitch ♦ Auction pitch ♦ automatic pitch ♦ body pitch ♦ brewers' pitch ♦ Burgundy pitch ♦ Canada pitch ♦ coarse pitch ♦ coarse pitch stop ♦ concert pitch ♦ Diametral pitch ♦ dot pitch ♦ Earth pitch ♦ effective pitch ♦ feathered pitch ♦ fine pitch ♦ fine pitch stop ♦ fixed pitch propeller ♦ geometrical pitch ♦ glance pitch ♦ glycerol pitch ♦ high pitch ♦ indicated pitch ♦ indicated pitch angle ♦ international pitch ♦ involute and pitch testing machine ♦ it is pitch dark ♦ it's pitch dark here ♦ jew's pitch ♦ Judean pitch ♦ low pitch ♦ make a pitch for ♦ mineral pitch ♦ northern pitch pine ♦ perfect pitch ♦ petroleum pitch ♦ philharmonic pitch ♦ pitch a camp ♦ pitch a party ♦ pitch a tent ♦ pitch a yarn ♦ pitch accent ♦ pitch and pay ♦ pitch and toss ♦ pitch angle ♦ pitch apple ♦ pitch attitude ♦ pitch battle ♦ pitch black ♦ pitch blackness ♦ pitch camp ♦ pitch chain ♦ pitch change spider ♦ pitch channel ♦ pitch circle ♦ pitch coal ♦ pitch contour ♦ pitch dark ♦ pitch darkness ♦ pitch diameter ratio of propeller ♦ Pitch Discrimination ♦ pitch farthing ♦ pitch forward ♦ pitch hay ♦ pitch in ♦ pitch into ♦ pitch into him! ♦ pitch into smb. ♦ pitch into the water ♦ pitch it strong ♦ pitch line ♦ pitch of a plane ♦ pitch of a roof ♦ pitch of poles ♦ pitch of sound ♦ pitch on ♦ pitch one's aims very high ♦ pitch one's tents ♦ pitch out ♦ pitch over ♦ pitch paper ♦ pitch peat ♦ Pitch Perception ♦ pitch pine ♦ pitch pipe ♦ pitch pocket ♦ pitch point ♦ pitch setting of propeller ♦ pitch shot ♦ pitch smth. away ♦ pitch torch ♦ pitch upon ♦ pitch wheel ♦ propeller pitch ♦ queer smb.'s pitch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pitch": pitch-accent, pitch-and-putt, pitch-and-toss, pitch-back, pitch-balls, Pitch-black, pitch-blackness, pitch-class, pitch-classes, pitch-covered, pitch-covering, pitch-covers, Pitch-dark, Pitch-faced, pitch-fibre, pitch-filled, pitch-forked, pitch-forks, pitch-man, Pitch-ore, pitch-overs, pitch-pine, pitch-pipe, pitch-pole, pitch-shifted, pitch-side, pitch-support, pitch-thick, pitch-to-voltage, pitch-up. | |
Ending with "pitch": fever-pitch, fixed-pitch. | |
Containing "pitch": bank-and-pitch indicator, flysheet-pitch-first, variable-pitch propeller. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
baseball pitch | 568 | pitch wiffleball | 50 |
pitch | 402 | rule of slow pitch softball | 42 |
pitch black | 274 | baseball different pitch | 41 |
pitch weekly | 166 | dot pitch | 39 |
throw baseball pitch | 144 | pitch softball | 37 |
slow pitch softball | 134 | pitch type | 37 |
pitch card game | 130 | baseball grip pitch | 37 |
slow pitch softball bat | 118 | grip pitch | 33 |
roof pitch | 114 | sales pitch | 32 |
ball pitch wiffle | 111 | slow pitch | 31 |
throw pitch | 109 | baseball pitch type | 30 |
fast pitch softball | 96 | city kansas pitch | 30 |
ontario pitch slo | 96 | baseball different pitch throw | 29 |
perfect pitch | 90 | melody mermaid pichi pichi pitch | 28 |
inside pitch | 88 | pitch back | 27 |
pitch slo | 77 | black fan fiction pitch | 26 |
different pitch throw | 72 | fast pitch softball bat | 25 |
national pitch slo | 70 | pitch slider | 25 |
2 black pitch | 60 | pitch pipe | 25 |
2003 inside pitch | 60 | fastest pitch | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pitch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pikswart (pitch black). (various references) | |
Albanian | pjerrësi (cocking, declination, declivity, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, knee, ramp, recliner, scarp, set, shearing, site, slant, slope, splay, talus, tilt, trim), pisë (tar), pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, full stop, globule, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, point, score, spot, touch), ngre me sfurk (pitchfork), flak (cast, cast off, chuck, clear out, fling, heave, hurl, reject, scrap, throw, throw away), flakje (casting, disposition, fling, hurl, throw, throwing), hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), hedhje (Bob, buck, cast, chuck, dart, dash, disposal, drop, fling, flirt, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss), intonoj (intone), katran (coal tar, creosote, tar), lëkundem bash e kiç, lëkundje (backlash, dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, quake, reel, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swing, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble), lartësi (altitude, altitudes, elevation, eminence, headway, height, highness, Hill, inches, level, loftiness, rise, stature, superiority, swell, swelling), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), mbaj (attach, Bate, bear, breed, carry, deduct, enshrine, force upon, get off, give, have, have smth. on, hold, keep, keep on, maintain, man, perform, preserve, refrain, respect, retain, save, support, sustain, wear, withhold), zift (tar), ngreh (dress, prick, set, wind up), nivel (class, degree, extent, league, level, Mark, notch, plane, reach, standard, stream), ritëm (cadence, cadency, eurhythmics, number, pace, rate, rhythm, swing, tempo, velocity), rrështirë bimore, rrëzohem (cant, descend, fall, sink, slump, tumble), shesh lojërash (playground, playing field, pleasure ground), shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, calibre, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, ladder, level, measure, notch, peg, phase, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), vendqëndrim (bus stop, emplacement, halt station, site, stand, ubiety), lyej me katran (pay). (various references) | |
Arabic | طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), درجة الميل و الانحراف, رمى (bin, bowl along, cast, cast down, chuck, discard, lance, pop, project, sling, strike in, sweep, throw, tilt), رمية (put, throw), أعطى النغمة, أوج (acme, apex, climax, culmination, noontide, pinnacle, ridge, summit, top, zenith), أقام معسكرا (set up), إشارة (allusion, cue, denotation, forerunner, gesture, hint, index, indication, innuendo, mark, motion, prognostic, reference, sign, signal, tip off), إعلان (ad, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, bill, bush, declaration, exploitation, gazette, notification, placard, poster, proclamation, profession, promulgation, pronunciation, protestation, publicity, sign, spot), إنحدر (batter, bevel away, decline, descend, devolve, dip, drop, incline, run, shelve, slant, slope), بدأ العمل (get working, set to work), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), كلام منمق (bombast), زفت (tar), ساعد (aid, assist, bear smb. a hand, encourage, facilitate, forearm, help, lend, relieve, shoulder, support, take a hand), تأرجح (fluctuate, fluctuation, hover, overbalance, rock, rocking, seesaw, sway, swing, teeter, vacillate, vacillation), غالى (exaggerate, overstrain, romance), غوص (bog, dive, diving, draught, pearl fishery, plunge, sink, submerge, submergence), قار (bitumen, tar), قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), قير (tar), نصب خيمة (set up), نغمة (key, tone), إهتزاز (quiver, rock, shaking, shudder, thrill, trembling, tremolo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | придавам определена височина на, надлъжно клатене, надлъжно люлеене, ниво (level, notch, plane), мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, put on, sell, send, shaft, shoot, sling, slip over, spoof, swing, throw, toss, tumble about), модул (module), зацепвам се (gear, mesh), зацепвам (couple, engage, enmesh, hitch, mesh), запращам (aim, dash, drive, hurl, leg it, project, send, smash, sock, speed, throw, whirl), запокитвам, зифт, давам основен тон на, продавам енергично, нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, tell, trim), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, place, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put on, put up, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate, stage), покривам със зифт, покривам с катран, покривам с калдъръм, полегатост (cant, incline, obliquity, slant, slope, versant), подаване (handing over, lodgement, lodgment, pass, passing, presentation, serve, submission), подавам (feed, hand, hold out, lay, pass, prefer, present, reach, supply, tender, thrust out), павирам (cube, pave), падам тежко (flop, plump), игрище (lawn, playfield, playground, playing field, recreation ground, sports ground), борова смола, хвърляне (cast, casting, delivery, draught, fling, heave, hurl, hurling, precipitation, projection, release, shy, sling, throw, throwing, toss), стъпка (footfall, footstep, measure, move, numbers, pace, remove, step, track, tread), степен (degree, exponent, extent, gradations, grade, length, magnitude, notch, order, peg, power, prairie, rate, remove), скат (devil fish, hang, ramp, shoulder, skat, skate, slope, thornback, whip ray), склон (ascent, decline, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitching, ramp, side, slant, slope, talus, versant), смола (gum, resin, tar), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), спуск (drop, runway), рекламирам енергично, разказвам (narrate, recite, record, recount, relate, report, tell, tell around), намазвам с катран, разполагам (collocate, dispose, position, settle, site, situate), накланям се (decline, lurch, slope down), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), хвърлей (cast), търговска реклама (plug), тупвам (flump, thud, whop), катран (coal tar, tar), клатя се надлъжно, височина (altitude, drop, elevation, gauntness, height, highness, key, loftiness, rise, upland), определям коз, определям (allot, allow, assign, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, prescribe, qualify, set down, settle, spot, state), настройвам (attune, key, key up, prejudice, syntonize, tone, tune, tune up), ъгъл на наклона, разпъвам (rack, stretch). (various references) | |
Chinese | 沥青 (Asphalt, Bituminous, tar). (various references) | |
Czech | postavit (build, construct, contrast, erect, field, found, place, put, put up, raise, rear, right, set, state), vysmolit, výška (altitude, depth, elevation, height, loftiness, tallness, thickness), svah (descent, dip, downgrade, downhill, fall, gradient, Hill, hillside, ramp, rise, side, slope, steep, upgrade, uphill), stupeò (degree, grade, order, phase, point, rank, rate, rung, stage, step, tier), stoupání (ascension, elevation, gradient, rise, uproar), smùla (bad luck, hard luck, hoodoo, ill luck, mischance, misfortune), rozbít (break, break up, bust, crack, dash, destroy, shatter, smash, sunder, wreck), mrštit (chuck, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, pop, sling, strike, throw, toss), intenzita (depth, intensity, strength), hodit (bung, cast, chuck, drop, fling, heave, hurtle, spang, throw, tip, toss), hod (cast, heave, sling, throw, toss), dopadnout (apprehend, capture, go over, hound down, hunt down, land, receive, seize, strike), dláždit (pave). (various references) | |
Danish | plovlegemets dybdevinkel (body pitch), pitch (tip inclination, twisting number, twisting number of a DNA), naturharpiks (natural resin), duvning (pitching), dyk (dip, dive, inclination, plunge, rake, strike), hældning (dip, inclination, plunge, rake, ramp, slope, strike, tilt, tip inclination), hulafstand, indfaldsvinkel (angle of attack, angle of incoming wind, angle of penetration, down suction, downward bend of a share point, incidence, share pitch, share suction, vertical suction), inklination (angle of inclination, dip, inclination, plunge, rake, strike), deling (binary fission, division, fission, partitioning, scale division, scale spacing, sharing), mellemrum (diastasis, gap, interrecord gap, interstice, interval, record gap, space, space character, spacing, spatium, transitional space), vibration i længderetning (longitudinal vibration), slåning (amount of twist, lay, lay method, twist), stampning (pitching), stigning (apogean range, elevation, grade, gradient, lead, rise, slope, swell, twisting number, twisting number of a DNA, upgrade, upwards grade), tegn pr.tomme, tonehoejde, længdesvingning (longitudinal vibration). (various references) | |
Dutch | pitch, pek (prick, spades, sting), natuurlijke hars (natural resin), deling (division), gangafstand, gatafstand, helling (acclivity, hillside, slope), helling op de horizontaal (dip, inclination, plunge, rake, strike), hellingshoek (body pitch, canting angle, declivity of hill, gradient of slope), Afstand tussen twee naast elkaar liggende schroefgangen, inclinatiehoek (dip, inclination, plunge, rake, strike), trilling over de lengte-as (longitudinal vibration), ondergreep (angle of penetration, down suction, downward bend of a share point, share pitch, share suction, vertical suction), schriftdeling, spaanhoek, stampen (crush, pound, tango), toonhoogte, hellingshoek op de horizontaal (dip, inclination, plunge, rake, strike). (various references) | |
Esperanto | peĉo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bik. (various references) | |
Farsi | ضربت باچوگان , به طرف چوگان زن پرتاب کردن , دانگ صدا, استوارکردن (Firm, Fix, Stabilize), استقرار, اوج (Acme, Apogee, Climax, Crescendo, Culmination, Meridian, Noontide, Pinnacle, Summit, Tiptop, Top, Zenith), اوج پرواز, برپاکردن (Erect, Establish, Inaugurate, Raise), خیمه زدن (Tent), پلکان (Ramp, Stairway, Step), زیروبمی صدا (Intonation), سرازیری (Bent, Declivity, Dip, Downhill, Slide, Slope, Tilt), توپ رازدن , نصب (Installation), نصب کردن (Fix, Mount, Setup, Stick, Uprear), پرتاب (Hurl, Jaculation, Jet, Pounce, Projection, Put, Shove, Shy, Throw, Tilt, Toss), جای شیب . (various references) | |
Finnish | sävelkorkeus, piki (cobbler's wax). (various references) | |
French | tangage (pitching), pas. (various references) | |
Frisian | pikswart (pitch black). (various references) | |
German |