Word Study
pitching
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pitching has 2 senses
- pitching(n = noun.act) Array - (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team; Array is a kind of playing
- pitching(n = noun.act) lurch, pitch - abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" is a kind of motility, motion, move, movement
has particulars: careen, rock, sway, tilt
Derived form verb pitch2
CIDE DICTIONARY
pitching, n.
- The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball. [1913 Webster]
- The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. Mayhew. [1913 Webster]
- A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
pitching
archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, jaculation, leaning, lobbing, lurching, musketry, oblique, pitched, projection, reeling, rocking, rolling, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, sloped, sloping, swaying, swinging, throwing, tilted, tilting, tipped, tossing, trajection, trapshooting
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