pitch (english) - Kamus SABDA

Kata bahasa Indonesia English word

Daftar Isi -- POS
TANDA HUBUNG
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

Link, Gadget dan Share

POS

Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

TANDA HUBUNG

pitch

top

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun has 10 senses

pitch(n = noun.attribute) - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration;

Derived form verb pitch₄

pitch(n = noun.act) delivery - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter;

Derived form verb pitch₉

pitch(n = noun.location) - 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"

Derived form verb pitch₅

pitch(n = noun.communication) sales pitch, sales talk - promotion by means of an argument and demonstration;

Derived form verb pitch₅

pitch(n = noun.attribute) rake, slant - degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

Derived form verb pitch₆, verb pitch₇

pitch(n = noun.substance) tar - any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue;

Derived form adjective pitchy₁, adjective pitchy₂

pitch(n = noun.act) pitch shot - a high approach shot in golf;

Derived form verb pitch₁₀

pitch(n = noun.act) auction pitch - an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump;

Derived form verb pitch₁₁

pitch(n = noun.act) lurch, pitching - abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

Derived form verb pitch₂

pitch(n = noun.act) - the action or manner of throwing something; "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

Derived form verb pitch₁

Verb has 12 senses

pitch(v = verb.contact) flip, sky, toss - throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

Derived form noun pitch₁₀

Sample sentence:
The children %s the ball

pitch(v = verb.motion) lurch, shift - move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

Derived form noun pitch₉, noun pitching₂

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Something ----s

pitch(v = verb.motion) - fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

Sample sentence:
The airplane is sure to %s

pitch(v = verb.change) - set to a certain pitch; "He pitched his voice very low"

Derived form noun pitch₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

pitch(v = verb.possession) hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend - sell or offer for sale from place to place;

Derived form noun pitch₃, noun pitch₄

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

pitch(v = verb.motion) incline, slope - be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"

Derived form noun pitch₅

Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

pitch(v = verb.motion) cant, cant over, slant, tilt - heel over; "The ceiling is slanting"; "The tower is tilting"

Derived form noun pitch₅

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s

pitch(v = verb.contact) set up - erect and fasten; "pitch a tent"

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

pitch(v = verb.contact) deliver - throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball"

Derived form noun pitch₂, noun pitcher₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

pitch(v = verb.contact) - hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin;

Derived form noun pitch₇

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

pitch(v = verb.competition) - lead (a card) and establish the trump suit;

Derived form noun pitch₈

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

pitch(v = verb.change) gear - set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something to somebody

top

CIDE DICTIONARY

, n. Array

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. [1913 Webster]
See Pitchstone. [1913 Webster]

Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See Kauri. -- Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy. -- Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree (Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum. -- Jew's pitch, bitumen. -- Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt. -- Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal. -- Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy luster. -- Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.

, v. t. Array

To cover over or smear with pitch. Gen. vi. 14. [1913 Webster]
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. [1913 Webster]

, v. t. Array

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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. Knight. [1913 Webster]
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune. [1913 Webster]
To set or fix, as a price or value. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; -- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]

, v. i.

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. Gen. xxxi. 25. [1913 Webster]
To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. [1913 Webster]
To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.

, n.

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. [1913 Webster]
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. [1913 Webster]
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound. [1913 Webster]
Height; stature. Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. [1913 Webster]
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch. [1913 Webster]
The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.

Pitch and toss, a game played by tossing up a coin, and calling “Heads or tails;” hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be careless or trust to luck about it. “To play pitch and toss with the property of the country.” G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck.

Concert pitch (Mus.), the standard of pitch used by orchestras, as in concerts, etc. -- Diametral pitch (Gearing), the distance which bears the same relation to the pitch proper, or circular pitch, that the diameter of a circle bears to its circumference; it is sometimes described by the number expressing the quotient obtained by dividing the number of teeth in a wheel by the diameter of its pitch circle in inches; as, 4 pitch, 8 pitch, etc. -- Pitch chain, a chain, as one made of metallic plates, adapted for working with a sprocket wheel. -- Pitch line, or Pitch circle (Gearing), an ideal line, in a toothed gear or rack, bearing such a relation to a corresponding line in another gear, with which the former works, that the two lines will have a common velocity as in rolling contact; it usually cuts the teeth at about the middle of their height, and, in a circular gear, is a circle concentric with the axis of the gear; the line, or circle, on which the pitch of teeth is measured. -- Pitch of a roof (Arch.), the inclination or slope of the sides expressed by the height in parts of the span; as, one half pitch; whole pitch; or by the height in parts of the half span, especially among engineers; or by degrees, as a pitch of 30°, of 45°, etc.; or by the rise and run, that is, the ratio of the height to the half span; as, a pitch of six rise to ten run. Equilateral pitch is where the two sloping sides with the span form an equilateral triangle. -- Pitch of a plane (Carp.), the slant of the cutting iron. -- Pitch of poles (Elec.), the distance between a pair of poles of opposite sign. -- Pitch pipe, a wind instrument used by choristers in regulating the pitch of a tune. -- Pitch point (Gearing), the point of contact of the pitch lines of two gears, or of a rack and pinion, which work together.

top

OXFORD DICTIONARY

, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. (also absol.) erect and fix (a tent, camp, etc.).
2 tr. a throw; fling. b (in games) throw (a flat object) towards a mark.
3 tr. fix or plant (a thing) in a definite position.
4 tr. express in a particular style or at a particular level (pitched his argument at the most basic level).
5 intr. (often foll. by against, into, etc.) fall heavily, esp. headlong.
6 intr. (of a ship etc.) plunge in a longitudinal direction (cf. ROLL v. 8a).
7 tr. Mus. set at a particular pitch.
8 intr. (of a roof etc.) slope downwards.
9 intr. (often foll. by about) move with a vigorous jogging motion, as in a train, carriage, etc.
10 Cricket a tr. cause (a bowled ball) to strike the ground at a specified point etc. b intr. (of a bowled ball) strike the ground.
11 tr. colloq. tell (a yarn or a tale).
12 tr. Golf play (a ball) with a pitch shot.
13 tr. pave (a road) with stones.
--n.
1 a the area of play in a field-game. b Cricket the area between the creases.
2 height, degree, intensity, etc. (the pitch of despair; nerves were strung to a pitch).
3 a the steepness of a slope, esp. of a roof, stratum, etc. b the degree of such a pitch.
4 Mus. a that quality of a sound which is governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone. b = concert pitch.
5 the pitching motion of a ship etc.
6 Cricket the act or mode of delivery in bowling, or the spot where the ball bounces.
7 colloq. a salesman's advertising or selling approach.
8 Brit. a place where a street vendor sells wares, has a stall, etc.
9 (also pitch shot) Golf a high approach shot with a short run.
10 Mech. the distance between successive corresponding points or lines, e.g. between the teeth of a cog-wheel etc.
11 the height to which a falcon etc. soars before swooping on its prey.
12 the delivery of a baseball by a pitcher.

Idiom

pitch-and-toss a gambling game in which coins are pitched at a mark and then tossed. pitched battle
1 a vigorous argument etc.
2 Mil. a battle planned beforehand and fought on chosen ground. pitched roof a sloping roof. pitch in colloq. set to work vigorously.
pitch into colloq.
1 attack forcibly with blows, words, etc.
2 assail (food, work, etc.) vigorously. pitch on (or upon) happen to select. pitch-pipe Mus. a small pipe blown to set the pitch for singing or tuning. pitch up Cricket bowl (a ball) to bounce near the batsman. pitch wickets Cricket fix the stumps in the ground and place the bails.

, n. & v.
--n.
1 a sticky resinous black or dark-brown substance obtained by distilling tar or turpentine, semi-liquid when hot, hard when cold, and used for caulking the seams of ships etc.
2 any of various bituminous substances including asphalt.
--v.tr. cover, coat, or smear with pitch.

Idiom

pitch-black (or -dark) very or completely dark. pitch-pine any of various pine-trees, esp. Pinus rigida or P. palustris, yielding much resin.

Etymology

OE pic f. Gmc f. L pix picis

top

THESAURUS

AF, French pitch, abuse, acme, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, amount, angularity, apex, apogee, ascend, asphalt, assail, assault, assist, attack, audio frequency, ballyhoo, bank, base, belabor, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bevel, bezel, bitumen, bivouac, blunder, bob, bobble, bowl, brow, buck off, build, build in, bung, caliber, camp, camp out, cannonball, cant, cap, capsize, careen, career, cascade, cast, cast up, catapult, cataract, chalk talk, change of pace, change-up, charcoal, chip in, choose, chuck, chunk, chute, classical pitch, climax, climb, cloud nine, coal, coggle, collapse, come a cropper, come down, compass, contribute, cooperate, crash, crash dive, crest, crow, crown, culmen, culmination, curve, cut, dangle, dart, dash, debate, declamation, decline, degree, depth, descend, determine, diatribe, dip, dip down, dive, down, downcurve, drive stakes, drop, drop down, drop off, easy slope, ebon, ebony, edge, elect, elevate, encamp, erect, establish, eulogy, exhortation, extent, extreme limit, extremity, fall, fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, fastball, filibuster, fire, fix, fleam, fling, flip, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flutter, forensic, forensic address, fork, formal speech, forward pass, found, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, funeral oration, gainer, gentle slope, get a cropper, glacis, go camping, go down, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, ground, hanging gardens, harangue, harmonic, header, heave, heaven, heavens, height, helicline, help, high noon, high pitch, highest pitch, highest point, hillside, hobbyhorse, hoist, hortatory address, hurl, hurtle, inaugural, inaugural address, inclination, incline, inclined plane, incurve, inflection, ink, install, interval, intonation, intonation pattern, invective, invest, jackknife, jeremiad, jerk, jet, jump on, keel, key, knuckleball, labor, lance, lash out at, lateral, lateral pass, launch, launching ramp, lay into, lay the foundation, lean, leaning, leaning tower, leap, let fly, level, librate, lift up, light into, limit, list, lob, lose altitude, low pitch, lurch, make heavy weather, mark, maximum, measure, meridian, modulation, monotone, monotony, mountaintop, move, name, ne plus ultra, new philharmonic pitch, night, no place higher, nominate, noon, nose dive, nose-dive, notch, note, nuance, nutate, opt for, oration, oscillate, outcurve, overtone, parachute, parachute jump, partial, partial tone, pas, pass, patter, peak, peg, pelt, pendulate, pep talk, period, peroration, persuasion, philharmonic pitch, philippic, philosophical pitch, pick, pinnacle, pitch accent, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, pitch camp, pitch in, pitch into, pitchfork, pitchpole, place, plane, plant, plateau, plop, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, point, pole, position, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pound, pour down, power dive, precipitate, prepared speech, prepared text, proportion, public speech, put, put in, put the shot, put up, rain, raise, raise aloft, raise up, rake, ramp, range, ratio, raven, reach, reading, rear, rear aloft, recital, recitation, reel, register, remove, resonate, retreat, ridge, rise, rock, roll, rough it, round, rung, running dive, sail into, sales pitch, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scale, scarp, scend, scope, screed, screwball, seat, seethe, select, send, serve, service, set, set speech, set up, set upon, seventh heaven, shade, shadow, shake, shelve, shelving beach, shoot, shot-put, shy, side, sidle, sinker, skin-dive, sky, sky dive, sky-dive, slant, sleep out, slider, sling, sloe, slope, smoke, smut, snap, song and dance, soot, sound, space, speech, speech tune, speechification, speeching, spiel, spire, spitball, spitter, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stair, stand upright, standard, standard pitch, stationary dive, steep slope, step, stiff climb, stint, stoop, struggle, stumble, summit, suprasegmental, swag, swan dive, sway, swing, swoop, swoop down, take a fall, take a header, take a pratfall, talk, talkathon, talus, tar, tent, thrash about, throw, tilt, tip, tip-top, tirade, tonality, tone, tonelessness, top, topple, topple down, topple over, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tower of Pisa, tread, trend downward, trip, tumble, tu