PITCH
What does "PITCH" mean?
The highness or lowness of a sound, or a throw, a sales talk, or a sticky tar.
Meanings
- How high or low a sound is, set by the frequency of its vibration. She sang the note at exactly the right pitch.
- To throw or toss something, especially a baseball to a batter. He pitched the ball low and outside.
- A persuasive speech to sell a product, idea, or oneself. The founder gave a five-minute pitch to investors. informal
- A field or area marked out for an outdoor game, in British English. The teams walked onto the pitch as the rain stopped.
- A dark, sticky resin or tar obtained from petroleum or wood. They sealed the boat's hull with pitch.
Did you know?
- Pitch the tar looks solid but flows like a liquid: a sample set up in 1927 at the University of Queensland has dripped fewer than ten times in almost a century - the world's longest-running lab experiment.
Word origin
Two roots converge: the tar sense is from Old English 'pic', from Latin 'pix'; the throw/sound/incline senses come from Middle English 'picchen' (to thrust, fix in place), of uncertain origin.
Remember it
PITCH covers throw, tune, sale, field, and tar - one slot, five jobs; remember it as the word that does the most pitching.
A little poem
Black pitch in the cup
leans toward falling for years-
patience is a drop.
haiku
Wordplay
- I gave the baseball team a sales pitch, then a real one. They liked the second throw better.
What it teaches
Even what looks frozen is moving - some things just fall one slow drop at a time.
Quick facts
What does PITCH mean?
The highness or lowness of a sound, or a throw, a sales talk, or a sticky tar.
Is PITCH a valid word?
Yes — PITCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PITCH?
PITCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PITCH come from?
Two roots converge: the tar sense is from Old English 'pic', from Latin 'pix'; the throw/sound/incline senses come from Middle English 'picchen' (to thrust, fix in place), of uncertain origin.
What can PITCH teach us?
Even what looks frozen is moving - some things just fall one slow drop at a time.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.