pitch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

   “It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.”

2. isim A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.

   “They put pitch on the mast to protect it.”

3. isim Pitchstone.
4. fiil To cover or smear with pitch.

   ““Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.””

5. fiil To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

   “1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.”

6. sıfat Very dark black; pitch-black.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.”

7. sıfat Intense, deep, dark.

   “Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report.”

8. isim A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.

   “a good pitch in quoits”

9. isim The act of pitching a baseball.

   “The pitch was low and inside.”

10. isim The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)

    “The teams met on the pitch.”

11. isim A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
12. isim The field of battle.

    ““The two men of Alltraighe maintain, Two chiefs of the plain of Kerry, A clan the most active in pitch of battle, Their chiefs are O’Neide and Clan Conary.””

13. isim An effort to sell or promote something.

    “He gave me a sales pitch.”

14. isim 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.

    “The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.”

15. isim The angle at which an object sits.

    “the pitch of the roof or haystack”

16. isim The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.

    “the pitch of an aircraft”

17. isim A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.

    “The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.”

18. isim An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
19. isim The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.

    “Another reason is that the prostitute who makes her pitch at Marble Arch stands a chance of being picked up by an out-of-town business man stopping at one of the hotels in the vicinity, and of being treated to a steak dinner […]”

20. isim An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
21. isim A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.

    “He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.”

22. isim A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.

    “Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down / Into this deep.”

23. isim The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.

    “From the pitch of Cape-Fraward, to the pitch of Cape-Holland, the Streight lies in the Channel West and by North, nearest, and is distant full five Leagues;”

24. isim Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.

    “Such breadth of ſhoulders as might mainely beare Olde Atlas burthen, twixt his manly pitch, A pearle more worth, then all the world is plaſte:”

25. isim The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
26. isim A person's or animal's height.

    “Alba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame; that great Alexander a little man of stature, Augustus Cæsar of the same pitch […].”

27. isim Prominence; importance.

    “Enterprises of great pitch and moment.”

28. fiil To throw.

    “He pitched the horseshoe.”

29. fiil To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

    “The hurler pitched a curveball.”

30. fiil To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

    “Bob pitches today.”