Some articles on pitch:
... The 2007 Pitch and putt European Teams Championship held in Chia (Italy) was organized by the Federazione Italiana Pitch and Putt and promoted by the ...
... The responsibility for selecting the type of pitch was traditionally made by the catcher by relaying hand signals to the pitcher with the fingers ... However, current form is to have the manager or a coach relay the pitch selection to the catcher, via secret hand signals to prevent the opposing team from having the advantage of knowing what the next pitch will be ...
... The gameplay is similar to SingStar the game analyzes the pitch of each singer and scores the performance based on how precisely the song was performed ... As a reference, the lyrics, the notes and the singer's pitch are displayed on screen as the song plays ... clone SingStar but rather has unique features such as scrolling notes and precise singing pitch display as a wave drawn on screen ...
... and conducts world championship competition in women's men's fast pitch, junior women's junior men's fast pitch (19-and-under), women's, men's coed slow pitch, and women ...
... Pitch (filmmaking), a proposal for a film Pitch (film) Pitch Weekly, a free urban weekly newspaper in Kansas City ...
More definitions of "pitch":
- (verb): Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.
- (noun): Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).
Synonyms: lurch, pitching
- (noun): Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
Synonyms: tar
- (verb): Set the level or character of.
Synonyms: gear
- (noun): The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.
- (noun): The action or manner of throwing something.
Example: "His pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"
- (noun): Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane.
Example: "The roof had a steep pitch"
Synonyms: rake, slant
- (verb): Set to a certain pitch.
Example: "He pitched his voice very low"
- (noun): A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk).
Example: "He was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors"
- (verb): Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.
- (noun): A high approach shot in golf.
Synonyms: pitch shot
- (noun): Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration.
Synonyms: sales talk, sales pitch
- (verb): Erect and fasten.
Example: "Pitch a tent"
Synonyms: set up
- (noun): (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.
Synonyms: delivery
- (noun): An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump.
Synonyms: auction pitch
- (verb): Fall or plunge forward.
Example: "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"
Famous quotes containing the word pitch:
“Though I have locked my gate on them
I pity all the young,
I know what devil’s trade they learn
From those they live among,
Their drink, their pitch and toss by day,
Their robbery by night....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)