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Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”) and Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”).", "From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.", "Unknown. Perhaps related to the above sense of level or degree, or influenced by it." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.\nIt is hard to get this pitch off my hand." }, { "mean": "A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.\nThey put pitch on the mast to protect it.\nThe barrel was sealed with pitch.\nIt was pitch black because there was no moon." }, { "mean": "(geology) Pitchstone." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To cover or smear with pitch.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 6:14:\n“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”" }, { "mean": "To darken; to blacken; to obscure.\n1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas\nSoon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.\na good pitch in quoits" }, { "mean": "(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.\nThe pitch was low and inside." }, { "mean": "(sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where \"field\" is the preferred word.)\nThe teams met on the pitch." }, { "mean": "(rare) The field of battle." }, { "mean": "An effort to sell or promote something.\nHe gave me a sales pitch." }, { "mean": "The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.\nThe pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.\nThe pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.\nA helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning." }, { "mean": "The angle at which an object sits.\nthe pitch of the roof or haystack" }, { "mean": "The rotation angle about the transverse axis.", "submean": [ "(nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.\nthe pitch of an aircraft", "(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.\nThe propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered." ] }, { "mean": "An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader." }, { "mean": "(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public." }, { "mean": "An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar." }, { "mean": "A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree." }, { "mean": "A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression." }, { "mean": "The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, uncountable) Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips." }, { "mean": "The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey." }, { "mean": "(now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height." }, { "mean": "Prominence; importance." }, { "mean": "(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances." }, { "mean": "(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.\nThe entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope." }, { "mean": "(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled." }, { "mean": "A descent; a fall; a thrusting down." }, { "mean": "The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.\na steep pitch in the road\nthe pitch of a roof" }, { "mean": "(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To throw.\nHe pitched the horseshoe." }, { "mean": "(transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.\nThe hurler pitched a curveball.\nHe pitched high and inside." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.\nBob pitches today." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To throw away; discard.\nHe pitched the candy wrapper." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.\nHe pitched the idea for months with no takers." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.\nAt which level should I pitch my presentation?" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).\nPitch the tent over there." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.\n\nThe typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.\nThe airplane pitched." }, { "mean": "(transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.\nThe only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.\nThe ball pitched well short of the batsman." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight." }, { "mean": "(with on or upon) To fix one's choice." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.\nto pitch from a precipice\nThe field pitches toward the east." }, { "mean": "(transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones." }, { "mean": "(transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix." }, { "mean": "(transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain." }, { "mean": "To attack, or position or assemble for attack." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.\nThe pitch of middle \"C\" is familiar to many musicians." }, { "mean": "(music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.\nAre we in baroque pitch for this one?" }, { "mean": "(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.\nBob, our pitch, let out a clear middle \"C\" and our conductor gave the signal to start." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To fix or set the tone of." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }