pitch
/pɪtʃ/ verbDefinition
LEVEL [T] › to make something suitable for a particular level or group of people: [often passive] His talk was pitched at slightly too high a level for the audience.
PERSUADE [I, T] mainly US › to try to persuade someone to do something: She pitched the idea to me over lunch. They are pitching for new business at the moment.
pitch (sb/sth) forward/into, etc › to suddenly move in a particular direction, or to make someone or something suddenly move in a particular direction: He braked too hard and the car pitched forward. She pitched the stone into the river.
pitch a tent › to choose a place for a tent and put it there
BALL [I, T] › in baseball, to throw the ball towards the person who is going to hit it: He used to pitch for the Chicago White Sox.
SOUND [T] › to make sound at a particular level: The tune was pitched much too high for me.
(Definition of pitch verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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