Word: pitch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick. Pronunciation: /pɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To throw. Labels: transitive Example: He pitched the horseshoe. 2. To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The hurler pitched a curveball. Example: He pitched high and inside. 3. To play baseball in the position of pitcher. Labels: intransitive Example: Bob pitches today. 4. To throw away; discard. Labels: transitive Example: He pitched the candy wrapper. 5. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell. Labels: transitive Example: He pitched the idea for months with no takers. 6. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind. Labels: transitive Example: At which level should I pitch my presentation? 7. To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively. Labels: transitive Example: Pitch the tent over there. Example: Why not, when it was clearly now possible to pitch your tent well beyond whatever expert consensus considered reasonable and be lionised instead of punished [...] 8. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. Labels: intransitive Example: Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead. 9. To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship. Example: The airplane pitched. 10. To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt. Labels: transitive Example: Driveway cross slopes along Owyhee Street in Boise reach nearly 9%, which could cause a person in a wheelchair or using another mobility device to be pitched into the street. The cross slope should be no greater than 2% in order to prevent this. 11. To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin. Labels: transitive Example: The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker. 12. To bounce on the playing surface. Labels: intransitive Example: The ball pitched well short of the batsman. 13. To settle and build up, without melting. Labels: intransitive 14. To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch 15. To fix one's choice. Example: Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy. Example: "'Tis very unlucky that we didn't pitch on a sound one, when there were so many more of 'em!" 16. To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope. Labels: intransitive Example: to pitch from a precipice Example: The field pitches toward the east. 17. To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones. Labels: transitive Example: […]pitch the road with hard stones [rather] than to break them up for a road covering 18. To set or fix (a price or value). Labels: transitive Example: Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie, That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie. 19. To discard (a card) for some gain. Labels: slang, transitive 20. To attack, or position or assemble for attack. Example: They pitched at the waters of Merom. These waters of Merom are generally thought to be nothing but the lake of Semechon,[…] Example: “Vy don’t you pitch into her Sarah?” exclaims one half-dressed matron by way of encouragement. 21. To add yeast as a step while making beer Example: except for the cell growth which is higher for the yeast pitched with lower vitality Example: five pitching rates were applied to lab-scale fermentations to investigate its impact on the yeast