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Pitch can be a noun or a verb.
pitch used as a noun:
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
"It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand." - A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
"They put pitch on the mast to protect it. The barrel was sealed with pitch." - The act of pitching a baseball.
"The pitch was low and inside." - The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played.
"The teams met on the pitch." - An effort to sell or promote something.
"He gave me a sales pitch." - The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw, the turns of a screw thread, or letters in a monospace font.
"The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch." - The angle at which an object sits.
"The pitch of the roof or haystack" - More specifically, the rotation angle about the transverse axis.
- A measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down.
"The pitch of an aircraft" - A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
"The propellor blades' pitch" - The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its athwartships axis, causing its bow and stern to go up and down. Compare with roll, yaw and heave.
- The place where a busker performs.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- An intensity.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
"The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope." - The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
"The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians." - 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."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
pitch used as a verb:
- To throw.
"He pitched the horseshoe." - To throw (the ball) toward home plate.
"The hurler pitched a curveball." - To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
"Bob pitches today." - To throw away; discard.
"He pitched the candy wrapper." - To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
"He pitched the idea for months with no takers." - To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
"At which level should I pitch my presentation?" - To assemble or erect (a tent).
"Pitch the tent over there." - To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
"The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship." - 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." - To bounce on the playing surface.
"The ball pitched well short of the batsman." - To settle and build up, without melting.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is pitch?
- Noun usage: It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand.
- Noun usage: They put pitch on the mast to protect it. The barrel was sealed with pitch.
- Noun usage: It was pitch black because there was no moon.
- Noun usage: The pitch was low and inside.
- Noun usage: The teams met on the pitch.
- Noun usage: He gave me a sales pitch.
- Noun usage: The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
- Noun usage: The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
- Noun usage: The pitch of the roof or haystack
- Noun usage: The pitch of an aircraft
- Noun usage: The propellor blades' pitch
- Noun usage: The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
- Noun usage: The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
- Noun usage: Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
- Verb usage: He pitched the horseshoe.
- Verb usage: The hurler pitched a curveball.
- Verb usage: He pitched high and inside.
- Verb usage: Bob pitches today.
- Verb usage: He pitched the candy wrapper.
- Verb usage: He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
- Verb usage: At which level should I pitch my presentation?
- Verb usage: Pitch the tent over there.
- Verb usage: The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
- Verb usage: The airplane pitched.
- Verb usage: The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
- Verb usage: The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pitch are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pitch, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).