Pitch

Pitch may refer to:

  • Pitch (resin), a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum
  • Pitch (card game)
  • Sales pitch
    • Elevator pitch, a very short sales presentation, allegedly short enough to be made during an elevator ride
  • Pitch accent
  • Pitch (aviation), along with roll and yaw, an aspect of aircraft flight dynamics

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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)

    He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.
    Dorothy Uhnak (b. 1933)

    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)