Pitch Pɪtʃ Game Sense Fans Invaded Made Make

• a football/cricket/rugby pitch
• the rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch.
• after the game fans invaded the pitch.
• a basic sense of rhythm and pitch is essential in a music teacher.

pitch

1. an area of ground specially prepared and marked for playing a sports game
• a football/cricket/rugby pitch
• The rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch.
• After the game fans invaded 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.
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.
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.
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 a street entertainer usually performs
8. 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_1
9. the degree to which a roof slopes
10. to make a determined effort to get something or to persuade somebody of something
• He made a pitch to black voters in Alabama.
11. to spoil somebody’s plans or their chances of getting something

Extra Examples

• Excitement rose to fever pitch the day before the game.
• Farley was about to make a pitch to a big client.
• He was the best player on the pitch today.
• Her voice fell in pitch as she grew older.
• His pitch to the business community was based on common sense.
• Marcelo will be making his pitch to a small number of potential clients.
• Negotiations about his transfer are continuing off the pitch.
• Police could do nothing to stop the pitch invasion.
• The executives listened open-mouthed as she seamlessly delivered a pitch for their business.
• The instrument is not tuned to the correct pitch.
• The pitch was invaded by angry fans.
• The players have just come off the pitch.
• a strong pitch delivered by advertising executives
• to reach a high pitch of excitement
• Having perfect pitch means that I can hear a note and tell you that it’s a G, or a B flat, or whatever.
• The game ended in chaos with fans invading the pitch.
• The pitch of the drum can be raised by tightening the skin.
• The pitch of the roof is 45 degrees.

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-.