pitch
part of speech
noun (a pitch, pitches; pitch, uncountable for sound); verb (pitch, pitches, pitched, pitching)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pitch is a field marked out for a sport, like a football, rugby or cricket pitch (mainly UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ). tree →
2) Pitch is how high or low a sound is. tree →
3) To pitch a tent means to put it up. tree →
4) To pitch means to throw a ball, especially in baseball or softball, and a pitch is that throw. tree →
5) Pitch black or pitch dark means completely dark. tree →
6) Pitch is a black sticky substance made from tar. tree →
7) A pitch is a talk to persuade people, like a sales pitch. tree →
8) To pitch can mean to fall forward or a ship rocking up and down. tree →
9) Pitch can also mean the highest or lowest level of something, like a level of excitement. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and music lessons: pitch depends on how fast something vibrates; faster vibrations make a higher pitch; short or tight strings and small instruments make high pitches; long, loose strings make low ones. In sport: football pitch (UK) is a field (US), baseball pitcher throws the pitch. Camping: pitch a tent away from rivers and under no dead branches. Phrases: «high-pitched», «low-pitched», «pitch black», «pitch a tent», «pitch in» (join in to help), «sales pitch».
examples
- The football pitch was muddy after the rain. tree →
- A whistle has a very high pitch. tree →
- Tighten the guitar string to make the pitch higher. tree →
- We pitched our tent near the lake. tree →
- He threw the fastest pitch of the game. tree →
- The cave was pitch black. tree →
- Everyone pitched in to clean up the classroom. tree →
- The mouse made a high-pitched squeak. tree →
- She made a great pitch for her idea. tree →
- His words excited my curiosity to the highest pitch. tree →
note
Plural and verb with he/she/it: «pitches». Pitch (how high or low) is different from volume (how loud or quiet). A football «pitch» in the UK is a «field» in the US. A «pitcher» is a baseball thrower and also, in the US, a jug.
In the corpora
- The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.
- Bumblebees can buzz at a special pitch that shakes pollen out of tomato flowers, and farmers use them in greenhouses.
- Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds that people cannot hear.
- Pitch a tent on flat, high ground away from dead trees, rivers and the bottom of slopes.
- Theo thought playing in the pitch dark was cooler, like a cinema.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pitch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.