pitch
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3.7
- noun
- /pɪtʃ/
- Specialized
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tono
- The singer adjusted her voice to reach the high pitch of the song during the performance.
- pitch and rhythm
- correct pitch
- incorrect pitch
You get all the pitches, all the rhythms.
- You get all the pitches, all the rhythms.
- He's he's crying with like a higher pitch in his tone.
- It sounds like then terrible pitch isn't nervousness, it's lack of enthusiasm.
- And I can tell from the pitch that the truck is coming towards me.
- So Pedicrama forces me to focus on intonation, my pitch, my pace and pause.
- When he was a teenager, he associated musical pitches and sounds with colours.
- Now that pitch is an E flat.
- This does not involve relative pitch or perfect pitch.
- So the closer my hand goes to the pitch antenna, the higher the note.
- Because, you know, he had a looser pitch Australian voice.
- And I always thought, like, who's changing the pitch up halfway through the marriage?
Examples
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That kind of sounds like the same pitch as Cash's voice.
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However, we did not find evidence of pitch change in AD speech in the present study.
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And I can tell from the pitch that the truck is coming towards me.
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We have the same sound, the same pitch from all over the place, all four points.
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The same pitch, twice in a row?
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Just breathe and practice the pitch.
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Last but not least, I got you a pitch pipe for singing.
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Further, it requires the ability to perform both pitch and rhythm accurately and simultaneously.
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Singers must interpret rhythm and pitch while focusing on vowels and singing in foreign languages.
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Moreover, tablature naturally accommodates the wide variety of pitch standards in use at the time.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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4.1
The pitch of a syllable that changes a word's meaning in languages like Mandarin
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4.9
The lowest note a sound makes that decides its pitch
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4.0
A sound frequency people can hear, usually 20 to 20,000 hertz
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
5
6.3
In baseball, a pitch the catcher cannot catch that lets a base runner advance
- Jargon
1
8.6
A ball thrown close to the batter to make them move away from home plate or feel scared
- Specialized
1
6.6
A small device that plays a musical note to help singers or musicians find the right starting note
- Specialized
1
9.9
A rare ability to name or sing a musical note without any other note to compare
- Specialized
1
5.8
A large pine tree from eastern North America that people use for its wood and sticky sap
- Specialized
A standard note that instruments tune to, usually the A above middle C at 440 Hz
- Archaic
A card game where the first card played decides which suit wins over others
- Specialized
A thick dark sticky substance like tar that comes from oil or from the ground and is used for waterproofing
- Specialized
A standard note for tuning instruments where the A above middle C is 440
A large pine tree from eastern North America with three needles in each cluster and thick, rough bark
- Specialized
A standard musical note used to tune instruments, usually the A above middle C at 440 hertz
- Jargon
To throw the ball outside the strike zone to stop a runner from stealing a base
- Specialized
A part of a plane with blades you can angle to work better at different speeds
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pitch for how high or low a sound is comes from the idea of 'setting' a note at a level; to pitch a note is to set it high or low, which is why we talk about 'high pitch' and 'low pitch'.