<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).</li><li>to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position.</li><li>to throw, fling, hurl, or toss.</li><li>Baseball: to deliver or serve (the ball) to the batter.</li><li>to fill the position of pitcher in (a game): He pitched a no-hitter. He pitched a good game.</li><li>to choose or assign as a pitcher for a game: The manager pitched Greene the next night.</li><li>to set at a certain point, degree, level, etc.: He pitched his hopes too high.</li><li>Music: to set at a particular pitch, or determine the key or keynote of (a melody).</li><li>Cards: to lead (a card of a particular suit), thereby fixing that suit as trump.</li><li>to determine (the trump) in this manner.</li><li>to pave or revet with small stones.</li><li>Masonry: to square (a stone), cutting the arrises true with a chisel.</li><li>to cut with a chisel.</li><li>Informal: to attempt to sell or win approval for; promote; advertise: to pitch breakfast foods at a sales convention.</li><li>Informal: to approach or court (as a person, company, or the public) in hope of a sale, approval, or interest; make an appeal to.</li><li>to cause to pitch.</li><li>Obsolete: to set in order; to arrange, as a field of battle.</li><li>Obsolete: to fix firmly as in the ground; embed.</li><li>(used without object) to plunge or fall forward or headlong.</li><li>to lurch.</li><li>to throw or toss.</li><li>Baseball: to deliver or serve the ball to the batter.</li><li>to fill the position of pitcher: He pitched for the Mets last year.</li><li>to slope downward; dip.</li><li>to plunge with alternate fall and rise of bow and stern, as a ship (roll).</li><li>(of a rocket or guided missile) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by oscillations of the longitudinal axis in a vertical plane about the center of gravity.</li><li>to fix a tent or temporary habitation; encamp: They pitched by a mountain stream.</li><li>Golf: to play a pitch shot.</li><li>Informal: to attempt to sell or win approval for something or someone by advertising, promotion, etc.: politicians pitching on TV.</li><li>Rare: to become established; settle down.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.</li><li>the degree of inclination or slope; angle: the pitch of an arch; the pitch of a stair.</li><li>the highest point or greatest height: enjoying the pitch of success.</li><li>(in music, speech, etc.) the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations by which it is produced.</li><li>Music: the particular tonal standard with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative level.</li><li>Acoustics: the apparent predominant frequency sounded by an acoustical source.</li><li>act or manner of pitching.</li><li>a throw or toss.</li><li>Baseball: the serving of the ball to the batter by the pitcher, usually preceded by a windup or stretch.</li><li>a pitching movement or forward plunge, as of a ship.</li><li>upward or downward inclination or slope: a road descending at a steep pitch.</li><li>a sloping part or place: to build on the pitch of a hill.</li><li>a quantity of something pitched or placed somewhere.</li><li>Cricket: the central part of the field; the area between the wickets.</li><li>Informal: an often high-pressured talk or message intended to sell or win approval for something: an email pitch to gain support for a proposal.</li><li>a specific plan of action; angle: to tackle a problem again, using a new pitch.</li><li>the specific location in which a person or object is placed or stationed; allotted or assigned place.</li><li>Chiefly British: the established location, often a street corner, of a beggar, street peddler, newspaper vendor, etc.</li><li>Aeronautics: the nosing of an airplane or spacecraft up or down about a transverse axis.</li><li>the distance that a given propeller would advance in one revolution.</li><li>(of a rocket or guided missile) the motion due to pitching.</li><li>the extent of the rotation of the longitudinal axis involved in pitching.</li><li>Also called plunge.</li><li>Geology: the inclination of a linear feature, as the axis of a fold or an oreshoot, from the horizontal.</li><li>Machinery: the distance between the corresponding surfaces of two adjacent gear teeth measured either along the pitch circle circular pitch or between perpendiculars to the root surfaces normal pitch.</li><li>the ratio of the number of teeth in a gear or splined shaft to the pitch circle diameter, expressed in inches.</li><li>the distance between any two adjacent things in a series, as screw threads, rivets, etc.</li><li>(in carpet weaving) the weftwise number of warp ends, usually determined in relation to 27 inches (68.6 centimeters).</li><li>Cards: all fours (def 2).</li><li>auction pitch.</li><li>Masonry: a true or even surface on a stone.</li><li>(of typewriter type) a unit of measurement indicating the number of characters to a horizontal inch: Pica is a 10-pitch type.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>Informal: to begin to work in earnest and vigorously: If I really pitch in, I may be able to finish the paper before the deadline.</li><li>to contribute to a common cause; join in: When they took up a collection for the annual dinner, he promised to pitch in.</li><li>to choose, especially casually or without forethought; decide on: We pitched on a day for our picnic.</li><li>Informal: to attack verbally or physically: He apologized for pitching into me yesterday.</li><li>to begin to work on vigorously.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>