pitcher

«pitcher» in Mova's school dictionary: a large jug with a handle and a lip for pouring drinks… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pitcher, pitchers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pitcher is a large jug with a handle and a lip for pouring drinks such as water, milk or juice (US: any jug; UK: often a big pottery jug). tree →

2) (sport) In baseball and softball, the pitcher is the player who throws the ball to the batter. tree →

3) A pitcher plant is a plant with jug-shaped leaves that trap and digest insects. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, a pitcher holds a capacity (a 2-litre pitcher) in measuring problems. In US school life and sport, the pitcher is the key player in a baseball game. In science, pitcher plants are meat-eating plants. Old saying: "Little pitchers have big ears" means children hear more than adults think.

examples

• Please fill the pitcher with cold water. tree →
• A pitcher of lemonade stood on the picnic table. tree →
• The pitcher holds 2 litres; how many 250 ml cups can you fill? tree →
• Our team's pitcher threw three strikes in a row. tree →
• She wants to be the pitcher in the softball team. tree →
• A pitcher plant traps flies inside its slippery leaves. tree →
• Dad poured milk from the pitcher into our glasses. tree →
• So saying, she broke her pitcher and went home. tree →

note

Countable: pitchers. In British English "jug" is more common for drinks; "pitcher" sounds American. In baseball the pitcher throws, the batter hits, the catcher catches. Do not confuse with "picture".

In the corpora

• Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pitcher» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.