pitch

pitch is a 5-letter English word with 46 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 46 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
2. noun. See Pitchstone.
3. noun. To cover over or smear with pitch.
4. noun. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
5. transitive verb. To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
6. transitive verb. To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
7. transitive verb. To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
8. transitive verb. To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
9. transitive verb. To set or fix, as a price or value.
10. intransitive verb. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
11. intransitive verb. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
12. intransitive verb. To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
13. intransitive verb. To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
14. noun. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
15. noun. That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
16. noun. A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
17. noun. Height; stature.
18. noun. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
19. noun. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
20. noun. The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
21. noun. The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
22. noun. The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
23. noun. The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
24. noun. The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
25. noun. the action or manner of throwing something

    "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

26. noun. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

    Synonyms: delivery

27. noun. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

    "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

    Synonyms: lurch, pitching

28. noun. an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
29. noun. a high approach shot in golf
30. noun. the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
31. noun. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

    "the roof had a steep pitch"

    Synonyms: rake, slant

32. noun. promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
33. noun. 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"

34. noun. any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

    Synonyms: tar

35. verb. set the level or character of

    "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

    Synonyms: gear

36. verb. set to a certain pitch

    "He pitched his voice very low"

37. verb. lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
38. verb. hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
39. verb. throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

    "The pitcher delivered the ball"

    Synonyms: deliver

40. verb. throw or toss with a light motion

    "flip me the beachball"

    "toss me newspaper"

    Synonyms: flip, sky, toss

41. verb. erect and fasten

    "pitch a tent"

42. verb. move abruptly

    "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

    Synonyms: lurch, shift

43. verb. heel over

    "The tower is tilting"

    "The ceiling is slanting"

    Synonyms: cant, slant, tilt

44. verb. fall or plunge forward

    "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

45. verb. be at an angle

    "The terrain sloped down"

    Synonyms: incline, slope

46. verb. sell or offer for sale from place to place

    Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend

Synonyms

delivery, lurch, pitching, rake, slant, tar, gear, deliver, flip, sky, toss, shift, cant, tilt, incline, slope, hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend

Common word forms

pitched, pitcher, pitches, pitching, pitchable

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