Definition of Pitch

Verb: pitch pich

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

Noun: pitch pich

The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
- delivery
[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"
Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- sales talk, sales pitch
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
"the roof had a steep pitch";
- rake, slant
Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- tar
A high approach shot in golf
- pitch shot
An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- auction pitch
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
"the pitch and tossing was quite exciting";
- lurch, pitching
The action or manner of throwing something
"his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"
The distance between successive things