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PITCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set at a slant
Example:
a pitched rather than a flat roof
Classified under:
Similar:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form
Example:
high-pitched
Classified under:
Participle:
pitch (set to a certain pitch)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pitch
Context examples:
“It is over the fifth!” cried a Gascon loudly, and a comrade came running with waving arms to say that the bolt had pitched eight paces beyond the mark of the five hundred.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It has a distinctive low-pitched, loud-ringing bark.
(Old English Sheepdog, NCI Thesaurus)
It is brief, usually lasting for less than one minute, interrupting the speech and breathing and may produce a high-pitched breathing sound.
(Laryngospasm, NCI Thesaurus)
His body pitched out and down, but in some way he managed to save himself with his legs.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And there was a subconscious resentment that these, his kind, at first sight had pitched upon him and tried to destroy him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He made her no answer; and only observed, after again examining the room, that it was very low pitched, and that the ceiling was crooked.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The afternoon was wet: a walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had provided himself, among other things, with a complete suit of oilskin, and a straw hat with a very low crown, pitched or caulked on the outside.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Trevor stood slowly up, fixed his large blue eyes upon me with a strange wild stare, and then pitched forward, with his face among the nutshells which strewed the cloth, in a dead faint.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
