pitch

/pɪtʃ/

意味: 投げること、音の高さ

例文: Lena adjusted the pitch of her meow.
　　  レナは鳴き声の高さを調整した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: pitch a tent(テントを張る), sales pitch(販売の口上), pitch black(真っ暗)

定義: 音楽や音の高さを指す言葉です。また、スポーツでボールを投げることや、商品やアイデアを売り込むための短い説明をすることも意味します。

pitchは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
Noun: (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Noun: a vendor’s position (especially on the sidewalk)
Noun: promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
Noun: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
Noun: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Noun: a high approach shot in golf
Noun: an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
Noun: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
Noun: the action or manner of throwing something
Verb: throw or toss with a light motion
Verb: move abruptly
Verb: fall or plunge forward
Verb: set to a certain pitch
Verb: sell or offer for sale from place to place
Verb: be at an angle
Verb: heel over
Verb: erect and fasten
Verb: throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
Verb: hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
Verb: lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
Verb: set the level or character of

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

He threw a perfect pitch during the baseball game.(彼は野球の試合で完璧な投球をした。)
The salesman made a convincing pitch to the client.(営業マンは顧客に説得力のあるプレゼンをした。)
The band played on a grassy pitch in the park.(バンドは公園の芝生のグラウンドで演奏した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he was employed to see that his paper’s news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors
Noun: the roof had a steep pitch
Noun: the pitching and tossing was quite exciting
Noun: his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor
Verb: flip me the beachball
Verb: toss me newspaper
Verb: The ship suddenly lurched to the left
Verb: She pitched over the railing of the balcony
Verb: He pitched his voice very low
Verb: The terrain sloped down
Verb: The tower is tilting
Verb: The ceiling is slanting
Verb: pitch a tent
Verb: The pitcher delivered the ball
Verb: She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): auction pitch, cant, cant over, deliver, delivery, flip, gear, hawk, huckster, incline, lurch, monger, peddle, pitch, pitch shot, pitching, rake, sales pitch, sales talk, set up, shift, sky, slant, slope, tar, tilt, toss, vend

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): adapt, all fours, approach, bitumen, deal, descend, fling, gradient, hit, lean, motion, move, play, position, promotion, rear, set, sound property, throw

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abduction, abruptness, ad, adduction, adjust, agitation, alight, anglicise, anomaly, arouse, assume, avalanche, back, backhand, ballyhoo, beat, black marketeer, bob, body english, bolt, bounce, bowling, brush, buck, buildup, bunker, bunt, bustle, cannon, cant, careen, cascade, chip, chop, christianize, chuck, churn, cinch, circumduction, clap, climb, close, connect, cover, crash, croquet, cut, cut to, dance, deal, declare, decline, deep-six, defenestrate, deliver, dissonance, disturbance, dive, diverge, dodge, domesticate, double, dribble, drip, drive, drop, drop back, duck, electrify, endorsement, eurythmy, exit, eye movement, falter, fetal movement, fidget, fit, flex, flinch, fling, flip, flit, flop, flow, flurry, fly, follow through, foul, front, gear, gesture, get down, grab, grade, gradualness, gravitate, ground, ground out, half-mast, harmony, headshake, heave, heel, hit the dirt, hole, hook, hop, hop on, hurl, inclination, inversion, jerk, jettison, jolt, juggle, jump, juxtaposition, keynote, kick, kill, kneel, landmark, lead, lean back, leaner, left, lie, linger, list, lob, loft, lunge, lurch, make way, market, mill, mope, move back and forth, move involuntarily, move over, musicality, naturalize, nod, opening, pass, peddle, pelt, pitch, play, plop, pole position, polls, pop, post, pounce, precipitate, prick up, pride of place, prolapse, prostrate, prostration, public relations, pull, pulsate, push, putt, putter, pyramid, quicken, racket, rappel, reach, reciprocate, reciprocation, reclining, registration, retraction, retroflection, rhythmicity, ridge, right, ringer, roll, rotation, run, sales promotion, sales talk, seesaw, separate, set, setting, seven-up, shake, shank, shell, shoehorn, shoot, shutting, shy, sidle, silence, single, sink, site, sitting, skim, slam, slice, slinging, slip, slope, smash, snap, snick, softness, sound, spread, squat, stand, standing, startle, station, steal, stir, straddle, streak, stretch, strike out, stroke, stumble, sweep, swoop, tailor, teeter, throw, throw-in, thunder, timbre, toe, top, toss, transcribe, triple, tumble, turn, undercut, unhorse, vantage, vibrate, vibration, volley, volume, wallow, wamble, wave, waver, weather, whang, whirl, wiggle, wing, wobble, writhe

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): alto, ascend, balk, ball, bass, beanball, camp, change-up, climb, coal tar, cock, concert pitch, curve, dip, duster, fall, fastball, high pitch, key, knuckleball, lag, loft, low pitch, overhand pitch, passed ball, popularize, rock, screwball, sinker, soprano, spitball, stoop, strike, submarine, submarine ball, tenor, throw back, tone, tune, wild pitch

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: cant, flip, hawker, hawking, huckster, inclination, incline, lurch, monger, peddler, peddling, pitch, pitcher, pitching, pitchy, shift, slant, slope, tar, tilt, tilter, toss, tosser, vendable, vender, vendible, vending, vendition, vendor

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書):

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: