pitch

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The adjective is probably back-formed from, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".

Noun

 * 1) A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
 * 2) A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining  after distilling crude oil and tar.
 * 3)  Pitchstone.
 * 1)  Pitchstone.
 * 1)  Pitchstone.
 * 1)  Pitchstone.
 * 1)  Pitchstone.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: сайыр
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, breu, recina,
 * Georgian: ფისი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ingrian: pihka
 * Italian: ,
 * Ladin: reja
 * Nanai: нутэ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sevje
 * Occitan:, , , gema
 * Ottoman Turkish: زفت
 * Persian: ,
 * Picard: poé
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: živica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: ayangaw
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: pégoła


 * Afrikaans: pik
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: زِفْت
 * Egyptian Arabic: زفت
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bashkir: дегет, сайыр
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pega negra,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, , , alcatrén, breu, galipote
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πίσσα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ingrian: piki
 * Irish: pic
 * Italian:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زِفت
 * Latin: pix, bitumen
 * Maori: tā
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: bigiw
 * Ottoman Turkish: زفت, قطران
 * Picard: poé
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: teàrr, bìth
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To cover or smear with pitch.
 * 2) To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
 * 3) * 1704 (published), year written unknown,, On the Death of Amyntas
 * Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.
 * Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.

Adjective

 * 1) Very dark black; pitch-black.
 * 2)  Intense, deep, dark.
 * 1)  Intense, deep, dark.

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , a variant of 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, , modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
 * 2)  The act of pitching a baseball.
 * 3)  The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played.
 * 4)  A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
 * 5)  The field of battle.
 * 6) An effort to sell or promote something.
 * 7) The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
 * A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
 * 1) The angle at which an object sits.
 * 2)  The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
 * 3)  The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
 * 4)  A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
 * 5) An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
 * 6)  The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
 * 7) An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
 * 8) A level or degree, or, a peak or highest degree.
 * 9) * September 28, 1710,, Whig-Examiner No. 2
 * He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
 * 1) A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
 * 2) The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
 * 3)  Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
 * 4) The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
 * 5)  A person's or animal's height.
 * 6) Prominence; importance.
 * 7)  A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
 * 8)  A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
 * 9)  That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
 * 10) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
 * 11) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
 * 12)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
 * He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
 * 1) A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
 * 2) The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
 * 3)  Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
 * 4) The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
 * 5)  A person's or animal's height.
 * 6) Prominence; importance.
 * 7)  A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
 * 8)  A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
 * 9)  That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
 * 10) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
 * 11) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
 * 12)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
 * 1) Prominence; importance.
 * 2)  A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
 * 3)  A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
 * 4)  That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
 * 5) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
 * 6) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
 * 7)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
 * 1)  That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
 * 2) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
 * 3) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
 * 4)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
 * 1)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
 * 1)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
 * 1)  The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: vrh,
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: nadhoz
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: podanie
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech: hřistě
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: kauhanga
 * Polish: (do krykieta),  (do rugby)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak: ihrisko
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: myyntipuhe,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech: rozteč, rozestup, rozpal
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: rozstup
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 경사면
 * Maori:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: inclinare
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: sklon
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: nyökkääminen
 * French:
 * Portuguese: arfagem
 * Swedish: propellerstigning,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: úroveň, stupeň, miera
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: nyökkääminen
 * French: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: килово клатене
 * Finnish: nyökkääminen
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: toripaikka
 * French:


 * Finnish:,  ,
 * French:
 * Slovak: špic


 * Finnish:
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 * Finnish:
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 * Finnish:
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 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ;,  ;
 * French:
 * Maori:
 * Slovak: klesanie

Verb

 * 1)  To throw.
 * 2)  To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
 * 3)  To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
 * 4)  To throw away; discard.
 * 5)  To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
 * 6)  To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
 * 7)  To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
 * 8)  To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
 * 9)  To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
 * 10)  To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
 * 11)  To bounce on the playing surface.
 * 12)  To settle and build up, without melting.
 * 13)  To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
 * 14)  To fix one's choice.
 * 15)  To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
 * 16)  To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
 * 17)  To set or fix (a price or value).
 * 18)  To discard (a card) for some gain.
 * 19) To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
 * 1)  To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
 * 2)  To bounce on the playing surface.
 * 3)  To settle and build up, without melting.
 * 4)  To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
 * 5)  To fix one's choice.
 * 6)  To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
 * 7)  To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
 * 8)  To set or fix (a price or value).
 * 9)  To discard (a card) for some gain.
 * 10) To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
 * 1)  To fix one's choice.
 * 2)  To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
 * 3)  To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
 * 4)  To set or fix (a price or value).
 * 5)  To discard (a card) for some gain.
 * 6) To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
 * 1)  To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
 * 2)  To set or fix (a price or value).
 * 3)  To discard (a card) for some gain.
 * 4) To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
 * 1)  To discard (a card) for some gain.
 * 2) To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
 * 1) To attack, or position or assemble for attack.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: epa
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: desbotar
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ;
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, , ; pitsata, pitchata
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הקים
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, rizzare
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: pūpahi
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Maori: pūpahi
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: jyskiä, , nyökkiä ,  ,  ,  ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tūpoupou
 * Romanian: oscila longitudinal,


 * Finnish: lyödä pitch


 * Finnish:
 * Romanian:


 * Bulgarian: слягам се
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:, accumularsi
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Bulgarian:, гмуркам се
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French: ,
 * Maori: tūpoupou


 * Finnish: levittää sepeliä
 * French:


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Finnish:

Etymology 3
. Perhaps from the above sense of "inclination", "level", or "degree", or influenced by it.

Noun

 * 1)  The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
 * The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
 * 1)  The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
 * Are we in baroque pitch for this one?
 * 1)  In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
 * Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 音高
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, výška tónu
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: tonalto,
 * Finnish:
 * French: (d'un ton)
 * German:, Tonlage
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τόνος
 * Greenlandic: nipi
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tónhæð
 * Indonesian:, tinggi nada
 * Irish: airde
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Lao:
 * Malay: kelangsingan
 * Maori: hauoro,
 * Ottoman Turkish: سس
 * Polish: wysokość dźwięku
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , altura tonal
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: tinis
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1)  To produce a note of a given pitch.
 * 2)  To fix or set the tone of.
 * 1)  To fix or set the tone of.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * French:

Noun

 * 1)  cricket pitch