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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitch \Pitch\, n. (Elec.) 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 of poles} (Elec.), the distance between a pair of poles of opposite sign. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitched}; p. pr & vb n. {Pitching}.] [See {Pitch}, n.] 1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi 14. 2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. The welkin pitched with sullen could --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [OE. picchen akin to E. pick pike.] 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. To set face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. --Knight. 4. To fix or set the tone of as to pitch a tune. 5. To set or fix, as a price or value. [Obs.] --Shak. {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] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitch \Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS pic, L. pix; akin to Gr ?.] 1. 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 He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. --Ecclus. xiii. 1. 2. (Geol.) See {Pitchstone}. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitch \Pitch\, v. i. 1. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. ``Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.'' --Gen. xxxi. 25. 2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. --Mortimer. 3. To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy. --Tillotson. 4. 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. {Pitch and pay}, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitch \Pitch\, n. 1. A throw; a toss a cast, as of something from the hand; as a good pitch in quoits. {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}. 2. (Cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. 3. A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence a limit or bound. Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep. --Milton. Enterprises of great pitch and moment. --Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. --Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. --Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends --Sharp. 4. Height; stature. [Obs.] --Hudibras. 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; as a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof. 7. (Mus.) 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 Note: Musical tones with reference to absolute pitch, are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet; with reference to relative pitch, in a series of tones called the scale, they are called one two three four five six seven eight Eight is also one of a new scale an octave higher, as one is eight of a scale an octave lower. 8. (Mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out 9. (Mech.) a The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line -- called also circular pitch. b The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. c The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. {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[deg], of 45[deg], 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 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dip \Dip\, n. 1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. ``The dip of oars in unison.'' --Glover. 2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line slope; pitch. 3. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. 4. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] --Marryat. {Dip of the horizon} (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. {Dip of the needle}, or {Magnetic dip}, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line -- called also {inclination}. {Dip of a stratum} (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the {pitch}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pitch n 1: the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration 2: the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter [syn: {delivery}] 3: (British) 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" 4: promotion by means of an argument and demonstration [syn: {sales talk}, {sales pitch}] 5: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane: "the roof had a steep pitch" [syn: {rake}, {slant}] 6: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: {tar}] 7: a high approach shot in golf [syn: {pitch shot}] 8: an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump [syn: {auction pitch}] 9: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" [syn: {lurch}, {pitching}] 10: the action or manner of throwing something "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor" v 1: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: {flip}, {toss}, {sky}] 2: move abruptly [syn: {lurch}, {shift}] 3: fall forwards 4: set to a certain pitch, as of an instrument or one's voice; "He pitched his voice very low" 5: sell or offer for sale from place to place [syn: {peddle}, {monger}, {huckster}, {hawk}, {vend}] 6: be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" [syn: {slope}, {incline}] 7: heel over [syn: {cant}, {cant over}, {tilt}, {slant}] 8: erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" [syn: {set up}] 9: erect and fix firmly in place "They pitched the roof at a steep slant" 10: cause to be at a particular level; "She pitched her aspirations too high" 11: set the level or character of "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" [syn: {gear}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Pitch (Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex 2:3), found in pits near the Dead Sea (q.v.). It was used for various purposes, as the coating of the outside of vessels and in building. Allusion is made in Isa. 34:9 to its inflammable character. (See {SLIME}.)
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