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say it: pich
pitch is a verb and noun meaning "throw or toss with a light motion". It is pronounced /ˈpɪtʃ/ — pich. It carries 23 recorded senses.
hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
set the level or character of
“She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience”
the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
“he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors”
United Kingdom
promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
a high approach shot in golf
an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
the action or manner of throwing something
“his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pitch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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