Pitch Pɪtʃ Game Fans Invaded Extra Examples Sense

• a football pitch
• a cricket/rugby/hockey pitch
• an artificial pitch
• after the game fans invaded the pitch.

pitch

1. an area of ground specially prepared and marked for playing a sports game
• a football pitch
• a cricket/rugby/hockey pitch
• an artificial pitch
• After the game fans invaded the pitch.
• The rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch (= they lost their matches and the players behaved badly while on tour, getting bad news reports).

Extra Examples

• He was the best player on the pitch today.
• Negotiations about his transfer are continuing off the pitch.
• The pitch was invaded by angry fans.
• The players have just come off the pitch.
• The game ended in chaos with fans invading the pitch.
2. how high or low a sound is, especially a musical note
• SEE ALSO perfect pitch
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/perfect-pitch
• A basic sense of rhythm and pitch is essential in a music teacher.

Extra Examples

• The pitch of the drum can be raised by tightening the skin.
• Her voice fell in pitch as she grew older.
• The instrument is not tuned to the correct pitch.
3. the degree or strength of a feeling or activity; the highest point of something
• a frenetic pitch of activity
• Speculation has reached such a pitch that a decision will have to be made immediately.
• to reach a high pitch of excitement
4. talk or arguments used by a person trying to sell things or persuade people to do something
• an aggressive sales pitch
• the candidate’s campaign pitch
• Each company was given ten minutes to make its pitch.

Extra Examples

• Farley was about to make a pitch to a big client.
• His pitch to the business community was based on common sense.
• Marcelo will be making his pitch to a small number of potential clients.
• The executives listened open-mouthed as she seamlessly delivered a pitch for their business.
• a strong pitch delivered by advertising executives
5. an act of throwing the ball; the way in which it is thrown
6. a black sticky substance made from oil or coal, used on roofs or the wooden boards of a ship to stop water from coming through
7. a place in a street or market where somebody sells things, or where somebody performs in order to entertain people outdoors
8. a place in a campsite where you can put up one tent or park one caravan, etc.
• Pitches to rent from only £15 per night.
9. the movement of a ship up and down in the water or of an aircraft in the air
• COMPARE roll
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/roll_2
10. the degree to which a roof slopes
• The pitch of the roof is 45 degrees.
11. to make a determined effort to get something or to persuade somebody of something
• He made a pitch to black voters in Alabama.
12. to cause somebody’s plans to fail or to destroy their chances of getting something

Word Origin

• noun senses 1 to 5 and noun senses 7 to 9 Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘thrust (something pointed) into the ground’ and ‘fall headlong’): perhaps related to Old English picung ‘stigmata’, of unknown ultimate origin. The sense development is obscure. noun sense 6 Old English pic (noun), pician (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pek and German Pech; based on Latin pix, pic-.