pitch
//pɪt͡ʃ//
Forms
- Plural
- pitches
- Comparative
- pitcher
- Superlative
- pitchest
- present (v1)
- pitch
- past (v2)
- pitched
- past participle (v3)
- pitched
- present participle
- pitching
- 3rd person singular
- pitches
Definitions
1.A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
2.A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The barrel was sealed with pitch.
- They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
- It was pitch black because there was no moon.
3.Pitchstone.
4.A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
1.To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
2.To cover or smear with pitch.
1.Intense, deep, dark.
- If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out].
- Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report.
2.Very dark black; pitch-black.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3266
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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.