Pitched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pitching}.] [See {Pitch}, n.]
     1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi. 14.
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     2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.


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              The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pitched
       adj 1: (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a
              combining form; "high-pitched"
       2: set at a slant; "a pitched rather than a flat roof"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "pitched":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arranged,
     articulated, aslant, aslope, assimilated, atilt, back, barytone,
     bevel, beveled, bias, biased, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, canting,
     careening, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant,
     consonantal, continuant, coordinated, deliberate, dental,
     dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
     guttural, hard, heavy, high, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined,
     inclining, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral,
     lax, leaning, light, lingual, liquid, listing, low, mid,
     monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, oblique, occlusive,
     open, organized, out of plumb, out of square, oxytone, palatal,
     palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic,
     phonic, pitch, pitching, planned, posttonic, raking, recumbent,
     retroflex, rounded, semivowel, shelving, shelvy, sideling,
     sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped,
     sloping, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic,
     systematized, tense, thick, throaty, tilted, tilting, tipped,
     tipping, tipsy, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded,
     unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
     vowellike, weak, wide