pitch

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
2. (countable, uncountable) A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.
3. (countable, uncountable) Pitchstone.

Verb

1. To cover or smear with pitch.
2. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Adj

1. Very dark black; pitch-black.
2. Intense, deep, dark.

Verb

1. (transitive) To throw.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
3. (intransitive) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
4. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
5. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
6. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
7. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
8. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
9. (ambitransitive) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
10. (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
11. (transitive) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
12. (intransitive) To bounce on the playing surface.
13. (intransitive) To settle and build up, without melting.
14. (archaic, intransitive) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
15. To fix one's choice.
16. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
17. (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
18. (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
19. (slang, transitive) To discard (a card) for some gain.
20. To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
21. To add yeast as a step while making beer

Verb

1. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
2. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

Synonyms

throw

toss

tar

fling

cast

tone

hurl

resin

slope

roll

slant

lurch

key

🔑

tilt

incline

flip

cant

tune

set up

sling

sway

totter

intonation

sky

gum

gradient

serve

rake

project

deliver

chuck

pass

monger

cant over

launch

lob

court

shy

heave

hawk

field

put up

delivery

grade

degree

erect

pitching

rock

🪨

strain

vend

Translations

werfen

Pech

lancer

arremessar

pece

pas

poix

echar

pez

beccheggio

werpen

lanzar

jeter

Tonlage

gooien

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɪt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: picche

Inherited from Old English: piċ

Cognate with Ancient Greek: πίσσα

Cognate with Latin: pīnus

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Pik

Cognate with Dutch: pek

Cognate with German: Pech

Cognate with Catalan: pega

Cognate with Spanish: pegar

Cognate with Arpitan: pouatche

Cognate with French: poix

Inherited from Old English: *piċċan

Cognate with Middle English: pikken

Cognate with English: pick

In summary

From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".

Sentences

Pitch the straw through the door of the stable .