pitchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (廃れた用法) pight)

2. (transitive) To throw.

   He pitched the horseshoe.

4. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

   The hurler pitched a curveball.

   He pitched high and inside.

5. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

   Bob pitches today.

6. (transitive) To throw away; discard.

   He pitched the candy wrapper.

7. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.

   He pitched the idea for months with no takers.

8. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.

   At which level should I pitch my presentation?

9. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).

   Pitch the tent over there.

10. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 31:25:

      Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.

11. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 136:

      His bone leg steadied in that hole ; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud ; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.

    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 103:

      Half a dozen deserted boats pitched aimlessly upon the confusion of the waves.

    The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.

    The airplane pitched.

12. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.

    The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.

13. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.

    The ball pitched well short of the batsman.

14. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
15. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:

      the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch

16. (with on または upon) To fix one's choice.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous

      Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.

    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 53:

      "'Tis very unlucky that we didn't pitch on a sound one, when there were so many more of 'em!"

17. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.

    to pitch from a precipice

    The field pitches toward the east.

18. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.

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19. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
    • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venvs and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], OCLC 837166078; Shakespeare’s Venvs & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, OCLC 19803734:

      Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie,
      That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

20. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.

派生語

語源 3

Unknown. Perhaps related to the above sense of level or degree, or influenced by it.

名詞

pitch (複数形 pitches)

1. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

   The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

2. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

   Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

派生語

動詞

pitch (三人称単数 現在形 pitches, 現在分詞 pitching, 過去形および過去分詞形 pitched)

1. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:

     […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

2. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, pages 196–197:

     His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.

参照

• pitch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pitch on Wikipedia.