verb
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To cover or smear with pitch.
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To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
verb
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To throw.
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He pitched the horseshoe.
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To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
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To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
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Bob pitches today.
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To throw away; discard.
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He pitched the candy wrapper.
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To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
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He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
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To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
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At which level should I pitch my presentation?
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To assemble or erect (a tent).
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Pitch the tent over there.
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To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
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To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
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To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
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The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
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To bounce on the playing surface.
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The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
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(of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
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To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
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(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
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To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
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The field pitches toward the east.
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(of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
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(of a price, value) To set or fix.
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(of a card) To discard for some gain.
verb
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To produce a note of a given pitch.
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To fix or set the tone of.
adjective
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Having a slope.
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a pitched roof
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Having a specified tonal range.
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a high-pitched scream.
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Fought from predetermined positions at a specified time and place.
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a pitched battle
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Covered in pitch.
Examples of pitched in a Sentence
He pitched his camp at Ingogo.
Coriolanus pitched his camp quite near to the city.
I pitched out the junk mail and paid the bills.
When they had crossed the field to the spot where Dean's tent was pitched, he began to dismantle it.
Even Mrs. Reynolds pitched in with some stuffed animals - a giraffe and horse.
Carmen pitched the disposable diaper in the trash and hefted Destiny from the changing table.
She pitched it in the trash and then paused at the door.
Bern was in command and was seriously wounded in the last pitched battle of the war, fought there on the 9th of August.
Saturninus, defeated in a pitched battle in the Forum (Dec. 10), took refuge with his followers in the Capitol, where, the water supply having been cut off, they were forced to capitulate.
Many wreckers and not a few Customs men were killed in pitched battles over the booty.
Cade came through the kitchen door and pitched his hat on the peg.
Pitched to the other end of the cabin, the two soldiers had strapped themselves in.
I was the one who spotted the suitcases while Byrne was around the corner doing his business so I pitched them in his trunk without opening them.
This proved to be the last pitched battle of the war, the Danes never again venturing to attack their once more invincible enemy in the open field.
He was victorious in the pitched battle fought at the foot of Ithome in the fifth year of his reign, a battle in which the Messenians, reinforced by the entire Arcadian levy and picked contingents from Argos and Sicyon, defeated the combined Spartan and Corinthian forces.
Sir Thomas More was pitched upon by the court on this occasion in order that his popularity with the Commons might be employed to carry the money grant for which Wolsey asked.
Convinced that it was impossible to meet Alexander in a pitched battle, his plan was to lay waste the country and retire into the interior, meanwhile organizing resistance on sea (where the Persians were far superior to the Macedonians) and carrying the war into Greece.
This victory, remarkable besides as Gustavus's first pitched battle, completed the conquest of Livonia.
I was the first one to the accident scene and I pitched the bottle—the only bottle.
Their distress call is a high pitched beep beep beep sound.
With some uneven bounce in the wicket, the bowlers had a chance to defend their low score if they pitched the ball right.
A new loft conversion is to be done in an existing pitched roof of a house.
True to her word, Verity pitched up at my office ready to ' dish the dirt ' on the CML.
Steep pitched clay tile roofs with pitched roof dormers.
Steep pitched Swithland slate roof with stone ridge and deep eaves.
Tents embroidered with gold were pitched within the sacred enclosure; and the wealth of Dionysius was vividly shown by the number of chariots which he had entered.
Fostat signifies " the tent," the town being built where Amr had pitched his tent.
These vessels were made of planks well fitted and sewn together, the joints being caulked and pitched.'
The longbow here scored its first victory in a pitched battle.
His trained regiments were defeated in two pitched battles by Major Adams, at Gheria and at Udha-nala, and he himself took refuge with the nawab wazir of Oudh, who refused to deliver him up. This led to a prolongation of the war.
He won pitched battles at Aligarh and Laswari, and captured the cities of Delhi and Agra, thus scattering the French troops of Sindhia, and at the same time coming forward as the champion of the Mogul emperor in his hereditary capital.
The army of Holkar was defeated in the following month at the pitched battle of Mehidpur.
Harun then marched against Nicomedia, where he vanquished the domesticus, the chief commander of the Greek forces, and pitched his camp on the shores of the Bosporus.
Tahir continued his victorious march, conquered Ahwaz, took Wasit and Madain, and pitched his camp near one of the gates of the capital, where he was rejoined by Harthama.
Instead of obeying he pitched his camp near the summit of a mountain overlooking Monterey, fortified his position, and raised the United States flag.
On the 19th of June he laid siege to La Roche-aux-Moines, the fortress which defended Angers and commanded the Loire valley; but on the approach of a royal army under Prince Louis on the 2nd of July his Poitevin barons refused to risk a pitched battle, and he fled hastily to La Rochelle.
It is not possible, however, by this method to entirely reproduce the character of the wine from which the yeast is derived inasmuch as this depends on other factors as well, particularly the constitution of the grape juice, conditions of climate, &c. The other micro-organisms naturally present in the must which is pitched with the pure culture are not without their influence on the result.
A pitched battle took place between them, in which the army of Karim was defeated.
The Zend issued from Ispahan, and was a second time defeated in a pitched battle by, the Kajar.
On receiving intelligence of this discomfiture, the king himself marched with strong reinforcements, and a pitched battle was fought in which Nasir Khan was worsted.
It was behind the Ridge at this point that the main portion of the British camp was pitched.
Almost daily sallies, which often turned into pitched battles, were made by the rebels upon the over-worked handful of Europeans, Sikhs and Gurkhas.
These huts are sometimes made simply of straw and are surrounded by high thorn hedges, but, in the north, square houses, built in stories, flat-roofed, the roof sometimes laid at the same slope as the hillside, and some with pitched thatched roofs, are common.
This time the Abyssinians were more successful, and beat the rebels in a pitched fight; but the difficulties of the country again precluded effective co-operation.
Ptolemy Philometor, who was Alexander's father-in-law, went over to his side, and Alexander was defeated in a pitched battle near Antioch in Syria.
According to this the fight was not a pitched battle but a surprise, the Austrians not having had time to form up into ranks.
In the year 871 these two gallant kinsmen fought no less than six pitched battles against the invaders.
The impression made on the Scots was so great that for some years they refused to engage in another pitched battle.
But the Beauchamps returned more than once to vain attacks on the stout walls of Berkeley, and a quarrel of two generations ended with the pitched battle of Nibley Green.
Within its limits he then pitched a tent, in which he sat down with covered head, asked the gods for a sign, and waited for an answer.