Usually means: Frequency of sound or tone.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pitch, pitch, pitch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pitch, pitch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pitch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pitch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pitch, pitch: Wordnik
  7. pitch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pitch: Wiktionary
  9. pitch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pitch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pitch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pitch: Dictionary.com
  13. pitch (n.), pitch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pitch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pitch (Softball), Pitch (TV series), Pitch (aviation), Pitch (baseball), Pitch (card game), Pitch (disambiguation), Pitch (film), Pitch (filmmaking), Pitch (flight), Pitch (gear), Pitch (music), Pitch (resin), Pitch (screw), Pitch (softball), Pitch (sound), Pitch (sports), Pitch (sports field), Pitch (typewriter), Pitch (vertical space), The Pitch (Seinfeld), The Pitch (TV programme), The Pitch (TV series), The Pitch (newspaper), The Pitch (podcast): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pitch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pitch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pitch: Rhymezone
  19. pitch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pitch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pitch (sports): Britih-American Dictionary
  22. pitch: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Pitch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. pitch: Free Dictionary
  25. pitch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. pitch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. pitch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. Pitch: World Wide Words
  29. pitch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  30. Pitch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. PITCH: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Pitch: Lexicon of Linguistics
  7. PITCH: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Pitch (disambiguation), pitch: Legal dictionary
  6. Pitch (disambiguation), pitch: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitch: CCI Computer
  2. Pitch: Game Dictionary
  3. Pitch (aviation), Pitch (disambiguation), Pitch (flight), Pitch (music), pitch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pitch (disambiguation), pitch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pitch: Castle Terms
  2. PITCH: Acronym Finder
  3. pitch: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pitch: Easton Bible
  2. Pitch: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. PITCH: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pitch: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pitch: Card Games
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Pitch: Bicycle Glossary
  6. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  7. Pitch: A Few Falconry Terms
  8. pitch: Golfer's Dictionary
  9. Pitch: Sports Definitions

Tech (24 matching dictionaries)
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  4. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
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  6. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  9. PITCH: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts
  10. Explosives (No longer online)
  11. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Pitch: Construction Glossary
  13. pitch: Chapters in the Sky
  14. PITCH: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  15. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  16. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  17. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  18. Pitch: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  19. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  20. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  21. Pitch: Latitude Mexico
  22. pitch: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  23. Glossary of PCB Terms (No longer online)
  24. Semiconductor Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
noun:  A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.
noun:  (geology) Pitchstone.
verb:  To cover or smear with pitch.
verb:  To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
adjective:  Very dark black; pitch-black.
adjective:  (of a black color) Intense, deep, dark.
noun:  A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
noun:  (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
noun:  (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.)
noun:  (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
noun:  (rare) The field of battle.
noun:  An effort to sell or promote something.
noun:  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.
noun:  The angle at which an object sits.
noun:  The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
noun:  An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
noun:  (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
noun:  An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
noun:  A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
noun:  A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
noun:  The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
noun:  The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
noun:  (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
noun:  Prominence; importance.
noun:  (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
noun:  (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
noun:  (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
noun:  A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
noun:  The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
noun:  (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
verb:  (transitive) To throw.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
verb:  (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
verb:  (transitive) To throw away; discard.
verb:  (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
verb:  (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
verb:  (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
verb:  (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
verb:  (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
verb:  (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
verb:  (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
verb:  (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
verb:  (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
verb:  (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
verb:  To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
noun:  (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
verb:  (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

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