pitch
/pɪt͡ʃ/ verb B2- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To fix or set the tone of.
He/she/it pitches · Past pitched · Past participle pitched · -ing form pitching
Verb forms
- Base form
- pitch
- He/she/it
- pitches
- Past
- pitched
- Past participle
- pitched
- -ing form
- pitching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- pitch around To intentionally throw pitches which are slightly out of ...
- pitch in To help out; lend assistance; contribute; to do one's par...
- pitch into To attack; to assault; to abuse.
- pitch on To throw (something) onto (something).
- pitch out To intentionally throw the ball outside to the catcher wh...
- pitch up To arrive; to turn up.
From the library
The latter, sure of quelling the tempest when the waves became too violent, allowed them to rise to a certain pitch that he might be revenged on the importunate Andrea, and besides it would afford him some recreation during the long day.
Ten minutes after she pitched forward, then the other way, spun round and round, and then good-bye to the Pharaon.
It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz’s ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
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