pitch

CEFRB1

/pɪt͡ʃ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The amount of highness or lowness in a sound.

  2. 02

    verb

    To throw or send something through the air.

Examples

  • Everybody will have to pitch in to save the environment.

  • It was pitch black outside.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A place where a team plays a sport.

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

  3. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

More examples

In context

  • Pitch the tent on level ground.

  • It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

  • They put pitch on the mast to protect it.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".