1. Throw with a light motion
   "pitch me the beachball";
   - flip, toss, sky
    
2. Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
   "The pitcher pitched the ball";
   - deliver
    
3. Set to a certain pitch
   "He pitched his voice very low"
    
4. Set the level or character of
   "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience";
   - gear
    
5. Sell or offer for sale from place to place
   "He pitched magazines door to door";
   - peddle, monger, huckster [N. Amer], hawk, vend
    
6. Erect and fasten
   "pitch a tent";
   - set up
    
7. Fall or plunge forward
   "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"
    
8. Move abruptly
   "The ship suddenly pitched to the left";
   - lurch, shift
    
9. Heel over
   "The tower is pitching";
   - cant, cant over, tilt, slant
    
10. Be at an angle
    "The terrain pitched down";
    - slope, incline
     
11. Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
    "She pitched the ball onto the green, where it stopped quickly"
     
12. (card game) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
    "He pitched hearts as trump"

1. A high approach shot in golf
   "She used a pitch shot to clear the bunker and land softly on the green";
   - pitch shot
    
2. The action or manner of throwing something
   "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"
    
3. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
   "They used pitch to seal the cracks in the boat";
   - tar
    
4. The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
   "The singer's pitch was perfect throughout the performance"
    
5. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
   "the roof had a steep pitch";
   - rake, slant
    
6. Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
   "the pitch and tossing was quite exciting";
   - lurch, pitching
    
7. [Brit] A piece of land prepared for playing a game
   "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the pitch";
   - playing field, athletic field, playing area, field
    
8. [Brit] A vendor's position (especially on the pavement)
   "he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors"
    
9. Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
   "The salesperson gave a convincing sales pitch for the new product";
   - sales talk, sales pitch
    
10. The distance between successive things
    "The carpenter adjusted the pitch of the roof tiles"
     
11. A sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
    "The new community park included a regulation-size pitch";
    - soccer field
     
12. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
    "The pitcher delivered a perfect pitch";
    - delivery
     
13. An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
    "Auction pitch is popular in some parts of the United States";
    - auction pitch

Derived forms: pitched, pitching, pitches

See also: high, high-pitched, low, low-pitched, pitched

Type of: accommodate, adapt, all fours, angle, approach, approach shot, bitumen, come down, deal, descend, erect, fling, go down, gradient, high-low-jack, hit, lean, motility, motion, move, movement, packaging, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, place, play, position, promo [informal], promotion, promotional material, publicity, rear, sell, set, slant, slope, sound property, throw, tilt, tip, tract, trade, wing

Part of: arena, bowl [N. Amer], sports stadium, stadium

Encyclopedia: Pitch, roll, and yaw