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.
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To produce a note of a given pitch.
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To fix or set the tone of.
noun
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The act of throwing or casting.
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wild pitching in baseball
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The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
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A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Examples of pitching in a Sentence
It was a moonless night and the perpetrator cut the power, pitching the farm house into total darkness.
In steep pitching beds sufficient excavated material is allowed to remain in the stope for the support of the machines and men, the excess being drawn out from time to time and loaded into cars.
If it were possible to sterilize the must prior to pitching with pure yeast no doubt better results might be obtained, but this appears to be out of the question inasmuch as the heating of the must which sterilization involves is not a practicable operation.
They are prepared by adding water to the concentrated saccharine matter and subsequently pitching with wine yeast at an appropriate temperature.
In consequence of the swell, the ship is continually pitching in a somewhat irregular way, the oscillations up and down being sometimes great and sometimes small.
This cools the wort to the correct temperature for adding the yeast (pitching ).
The effect of the rising tide is in the nature of a secular variation, while the pitching is periodic.
That is to say, making abstraction of the pitching, the ship is slowly rising and falling in a total period of nearly twelve hours, while superimposed upon this slow motion is a more rapid motion due to the waves.
The key to making these beats sound decent is pitching them down several semitones - this gives them a trashy feel.
And now we have the gnome, which Sky is pitching as an alternative to DAB digital radios.
For wings, 92% of the data for the pitching moment coefficient increment are predicted to within ± 0.02.
Having found that some of the commonest diseases of beer, such as yeast turbidity and the objectionable changes in flavour, were caused not by bacteria but by certain species of yeast, and, further, that different species of good brewery yeast would produce beers of different character, Hansen argued that the pitching yeast should consist only of a single species - namely, that best suited to the brewery in question.
This cools the wort to the correct temperature for adding the yeast (pitching).
Beyond the fun stuff, you and some friends can consider pitching in for a big ticket item, such as a stroller or swingset designed for multiples.
The lower-priced campsites are typically barebones and require pitching a tent.
The pitching wedge should be used when you are in a sand trap or in a wooded area.
Some players will substitute their 7 or 8 iron if they don't have a pitching wedge in their bag.
We started pitching the project around town and created a huge buzz around the script.
Awhile ago, rumors were circulating about the Lohans pitching a reality show.
In order to win the Shutout and Pitching challenges, make sure the pitcher you start with is the one you end the game with.
The meat of the pitching game is charged pitches where each characters has a special "Star Pitch", which uses up your stars.
Ted Hase was vital in pitching the concept of the Xbox.
If online content isn't your cup of tea, send query letters to local newspapers and magazines pitching an article idea.
Freelance Writing Gigs - This website lists job opportunities plus gives advice to new writers on pitching for jobs.
When you're pitching ideas for features, you must quickly convince an editor that your proposal has merit.
Still others may be interested in pitching a script to the Disney Channel and want to see a successful script for inspiration.
For families that wish to sample the outdoors without the aggravation of pitching tents or enduring cold nights, static RVs (referred to as caravans) may provide a suitable alternative.
Pitching a TV reality show involves skills, but nothing you can't learn with some practice, a good idea, and face time with producers or buyers.
Once you have an appointment, you need to do a couple more things before pitching a TV reality show.
See if there is anyone you know that has experience in pitching to the producers so you can pitch to their interests.
Many TV producers, novice and pros alike, have embraced reality show pitching.
Michael Ballard, owner of Full Throttle, has been pitching a reality show based on bar for seven years.
They use that copy in brochures, signs, and even in personally pitching their work to new clients.
He was right, to a degree It isn't the past that I'm pitching you, Alex.
Look what he dreamt; a woman ironing shirts, a child playing, a cat and a farmer pitching hay.
What she needed was a little of that stuff she had been pitching at Josh... trust.
The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.
The simplest form of weir is a solid, watertight dam of firm earthwork or rubble stone, faced with stone pitching, with cribs filled with rubble, with fascine mattresses weighted with stone, or with masonry, and protected from undermining by sheet piling or one or more rows of well foundations.
It is also used for preparing shoemaker's wax, as a flux for soldering metals, for pitching lager beer casks, for rosining the bows of musical instruments and numerous minor purposes.
In this case the motion of U, while still periodic, is seemingly irregular, being much like that of a pitching ship, which has no one unvarying period.
The French entered the gates and began pitching their camp in the Senate Square.
The men are usually ' Coco-nut fibre and the gum which exudes from the bread-fruit tree are generally used for " caulking " and " pitching " canoes.
I could see a man and a boy some distance away, pitching hay into a horse drawn wagon.