I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cricket field/ground/pitch (= area of ground where cricket is played )
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the school cricket field
a football pitch (= an area of grass where football is played )
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An area of wasteland had been turned into a football pitch.
a pitched roof (= with parts that slope down )
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a row of garages with tiled pitched roofs.
an artificial pitch British English
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The club is building a new artificial training pitch at its sports ground.
make/pitch camp (= put up your tents )
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We made camp in a clearing in the woods.
perfect pitch
pitch black (= very dark )
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It was still pitch black out.
pitch dark (= when there is no light at all )
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We stood outside in the pitch dark .
pitch dark (= completely dark )
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It was pitch dark in the attic.
pitch darkness (= complete darkness )
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We ended up coming down the mountain in pitch darkness.
pitch pine
pitched battle
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a pitched battle between the rival groups
pitch...tent (= put up our tent )
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We looked for a flat spot where we could pitch our tent .
reached fever pitch
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After a night of rioting, tensions in the city reached fever pitch .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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What seemed a single animal is now known to be two, distinct in their genes and with squeaks of different pitch .
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You can print indented paragraphs in a different pitch than surrounding text.
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Theology must somehow be playing on a different pitch , with revelation determining the rules and faith the outcome.
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Barn owls have one ear slightly higher than the other, so sound comes to them at two different pitches .
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These used rotating discs to initiate a quasi-musical sound which was then filtered, processed and reproduced at different pitches .
final
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On the final pitches the topo proves to be hopelessly inaccurate and route-finding difficult in the poor visibility.
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Bip Roberts struck out, Grissom stealing second base on the final pitch of that at-bat.
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Kirkus also made a solo attempt on the line now known as Nameless, retreating from its final pitch .
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Left: Laybacking up the final pitch of Direct route, Dinas Mot.
high
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One emits a low sound. the other a sound of higher pitch .
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Our ears, for example, can distinguish higher pitches from lower frequencies.
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Gliders have very low stick forces and the lower flying speeds give them a very high rate of pitch .
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To maintain the row's high pitch of energy, you need to make sure that sympathy is withheld by all parties.
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It has risen to a high , resonant pitch , emerging from his nose.
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He had golden-brown hair and beard and a voice high in pitch but rich in timbre.
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It will therefore be of higher pitch .
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Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest?
low
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Probably because of the very much greater stick forces and lower rates of pitch occurring in most light aircraft.
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SureSeam is low pitch steel roofing for high integrity buildings.
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Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch .
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The formal markers, low pitch close plus lengthy pause plus raised pitch introductory expression, are not present.
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It can be marked by very low pitch , even on lexical items, loss of amplitude and a lengthy pause.
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Model 520 roof window, suitable for roofs with low headroom or low pitch .
perfect
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In essays on whisky-tasting, sheath knives, deer hunting, he has a kind of perfect pitch .
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It got him trying to be too perfect with his pitches all of a sudden.
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You had perfect pitch , my love.
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I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history?
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Computer games that require a player to recognise perfect pitch might also help, Saffran says.
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In pastoral terms, the program had perfect pitch .
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But the five people in Saffran's group with perfect pitch had started learning aged four.
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The woodwind maintained a perfect pitch and, like the strings and brass, produced a consistently voluptuous sound.
slow
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Add in the slower pitches ad lower bounce and Hick was able to take full advantage.
■ NOUN
attitude
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Apply climb power and raise the pitch attitude to the required position. 2.
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Then start to lower the pitch attitude by maximum stages of a half bar. 3.
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If necessary adjust the pitch attitude a maximum of a quarter to a half bar at any one time. 9.
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The Altimeter will be used to indicate that the pitch attitude is correct. 2.
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This correction will be achieved with a pitch attitude change of half a bar on the Artificial Horizon.
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Unless turbulence is severe, use the Vertical Speed Indicator to help maintain correct pitch attitude .
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This correction of 200 ft/min is achieved by raising or lowering the pitch attitude a maximum of a half-bar. 6.
cricket
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The garden will double as go-kart track, cricket pitch , tennis court.
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He looked as if he had just walked off the cricket pitch .
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In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch .
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There is a playing field with equipment for the younger members of the community, and a football and cricket pitch .
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There is a cricket pitch in a village green setting and small zoo for the children.
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The new building will serve the existing football and cricket pitches , tennis court and bowling green.
dark
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It was pitch dark everywhere, and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom.
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It was pitch dark where I was standing, and silent as a tomb.
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He developed the photographs himself, blundering round the bathroom in the pitch dark .
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It was pitch dark , but a man could follow the path by the pale line of sky between the branches.
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It was pitch dark inside the attic.
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In the freezing cold and pitch dark , families were driven to clinging to the roof.
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I set off at 5 am but those Sussex lanes are pitch dark , and hilly!
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Inside the coffin it is pitch dark and fouled with faeces because women confined there are refused access to a toilet.
darkness
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In part two ... Into the night ... Freefalling in pitch darkness .
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We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness .
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He set out brightly, on past the notice, into pitch darkness .
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Up a narrow circular stair therefrom he went, and in the almost pitch darkness cannoned into somebody coming down.
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Suddenly the headlights of the Glory went out and they found themselves sitting in pitch darkness .
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She woke in the pitch darkness of the curtained bed with the suddenness of one called.
fever
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By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch .
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The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
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Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
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Excitement grew to a fever pitch .
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch , now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
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In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch .
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The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.
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But as the game's tempo reached fever pitch , Saunders squandered a golden opportunity to grab an equaliser.
football
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Another must is a football pitch .
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There will also be a floodlit multi-purpose outside court, and two hockey and football pitches .
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It had not been spent on the football pitch , however, nor the training ground.
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And finally the tale of a little village football club and their little football pitch .
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Five-a-side football pitch at Baberton Mains.
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Habit flying behind, she is bound for the football pitch where local kids are playing.
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Another possibility is to place two rectangular cakes together to make a football pitch .
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The Citrus Bowl requires some work, with seats being taken out to accommodate the corners of a football pitch .
invasion
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Apart from one brief pitch invasion when Sunderland scored, the supporters of both clubs behaved impeccably.
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The fans were delighted which resulted in a pitch invasion from the new stand behind the Southampton goal.
range
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Obviously, this large pitch range will make the model more difficult to fly in most other situations.
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Many manufacturers give details of how the pitch range of their models should be set up.
rugby
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Since the school took up so much space on the island, the rugby pitches were the size of tennis courts.
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An orderly queue was formed, stretching throughout the corridors of Hardside and out on to the rugby pitches .
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He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch .
soccer
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He stood beside a muddy soccer pitch .
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Two full size soccer pitches , and inside a fully equipped fitness centre complement the gymnasium and provide a comprehensive community facility.
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Mind you it was not just any soccer pitch .
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Were we marking out a soccer pitch ?
■ VERB
leave
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To deter them, the Dinamo side linked arms with their opponents as they left the pitch .
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With the fairway firm and running, players who hit drivers left themselves with pitch shots into the green.
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As he left the pitch he blacked out and fell through a glass door, cutting his hand.
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If you simply leave the positive pitch on, the model will fall over backwards during the climb.
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The Stamford Bridge faithful turned on the keeper and jeered him until after the players had left the pitch .
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Lock forward Bayfield had to leave the pitch while playing for Northampton after suffering an asthma attack.
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In the end, Linfield left the pitch to a standing ovation from the Windsor faithful.
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Newton was sent off and Mr Hallam had to leave the pitch because of his injuries.
make
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If you do not feel the tinkling, repeat the hum but make it lower in pitch .
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The profit-making Institute for Advanced Technology in Minneapolis makes a similar pitch .
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Some ideas he rejected, such as the liquid developed at Derby County for making pitches usable in all weathers.
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They are making their pitch on radio stations, and are videotaping interviews with returning refugees and playing them in the camps.
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Four days later, Oakland made its pitch .
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Another possibility is to place two rectangular cakes together to make a football pitch .
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Celebrities still went on the air to appeal for dimes and dollars, and newspapers still made their annual January pitch .
play
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Grace and Jane are impressed by the size of the garden until informed that children may not play on the pitch .
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Tavarez got Sanders to ground into an inning-ending double play on his first pitch .
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A match would involve three teams instead of two, playing on a triangular pitch with three sets of goals.
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Father and daughter would spend endless hours at a nearby tennis court, playing pitch and catch under the lights.
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The Headingley game was played on an uneven pitch that made batting difficult.
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Theology must somehow be playing on a different pitch , with revelation determining the rules and faith the outcome.
reach
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Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
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The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch , now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
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In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch .
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Bankside activity has reached such a pitch , even at night, that the carp will not come near the margins.
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Public support for the system was waning steadily as accusations of sleaze in high places reached fever pitch .
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What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time?
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But he had reached a pitch where he couldn't give up.
rise
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Parties utter a loud trilling whistle, rising and falling in pitch .
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The grinding, stretching sounds were rising to a pitch and behind it all, another low-register noise.
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Bernice became aware of a humming, rising in pitch and volume, that seemed to come from all around.
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As the line crawled gradually closer and closer excitement and enthusiasm rose to fever pitch .
run
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I can run around a pitch 25 times, no problem.
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Wimbledon's hard man ran across the pitch to point threateningly at Middlesbrough assistant manager John Pickering.
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They ran themselves into the ground, ran Chesterfield off the pitch , but they couldn't get another goal.
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Several Sunderland fans were escorted from the ground after running on the pitch when their team scored the winning goal.
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Not wearing a shellsuit at Center Parcs would be like running out on the pitch at Wembley in a dinner jacket.
throw
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And what would you have done if Schemichal got hold of you and threw you off the pitch like last night?
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Coaches sometimes have to remind him to throw a pitch off the plate every now and then.
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The flares were thrown on to the pitch as the players were warming up.
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Maddux threw 29 pitches in the first inning.
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He threw 82 pitches , and maybe one of them crossed the heart of the plate.
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But a pitching staff can get a shutout even if it walks 10 and throws another 10 wild pitches.
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Blaine, Ohio, will throw out the first pitch .
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That year, President Dwight Eisenhower threw out the first pitch on April 13.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(at) fever pitch
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By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch.
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Excitement grew to a fever pitch.
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Her legs trembled as his strokes of desire on her thighs crazed her need to fever pitch.
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In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch.
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Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
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The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
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The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
queer sb's pitch/queer the pitch for sb
sales pitch/talk
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Don't give them a sales pitch because there is nothing more irritating.
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He is running out of possible patrons, sales talk, flirtatiousness, hair, steam.
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None of this is likely to stop a flurry of sales pitches from mutual-fund salespeople.
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Personally I think this is another of his sales pitches.
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The sales pitch can be so slick that many consumers don't even realize they have bought magazines until the bill arrives.
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The sales pitch is a wonderful movie moment.
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The analogy of the sales pitch is revealing, for advertisers do not promote their product merely by providing information about it.
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There was nothing spectacular about my sales pitch except the language in which it was couched.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kendrick's pitch was good throughout the first aria.
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Ryan's first pitch was high and wide.
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Some of the fans rushed onto the pitch at the end of the match
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the pitch of the roof
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The pitch went wide.
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The President made his strongest pitch yet for standardized testing in schools.
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The same syllables were sung repeatedly at a number of different pitches.
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The village has attractive playing fields, with a football and cricket pitch .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the vehicle approaches, the pitch of its siren increases and then it decreases as the vehicle speeds past.
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Barnett ruled a two-strike pitch from Shawn Boskie was a called third strike.
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Son of Star Wars replicates that pitch .
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Swindon Town away against Sunderland has been postponed because of a water-logged pitch at Roker Park.
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Tavarez got Sanders to ground into an inning-ending double play on his first pitch .
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Then start to lower the pitch attitude by maximum stages of a half bar. 3.
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There, Williams wowed national coaches with her array of pitches.
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Thomas already was widely admired for his combination of power and pitch selection.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
forward
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The yacht pitched forward as they slid down the bow wave.
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He staggers, though I weigh no more than 104 pounds, and with him, I pitch forward slightly.
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Lewis put his arms round her as he pitched forward .
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I was a few feet up when I pitched forward and fell flat.
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Brennan was pitched forward off the firestep and broke his leg.
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As Rostov watched, the lieutenant dropped his weapon and pitched forward out of the hatch.
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Just as he discovered it was yet another Mars Bar wrapper, he slipped and pitched forward .
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She pitched forward into the flooded darkness of the interior, and Trent heaved himself after her.
in
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Hurd raised the issue in a speech on 25 March, and Baker pitched in more stridently a day later.
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Brewer has a younger sister who pitches in , too.
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Well, we pitched in , ferrying the people back to their villages and so on.
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But hiring such people means that you have to pitch in and be willing to do the menial tasks yourself.
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If you're in trouble, or have a problem, everyone pitches in to help.
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Even the poorest unemployed father can help his children by being there, staying sober, and pitching in .
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Walsh, bedecked with new suit and executive glasses, had pitched in with his usual aggressive style.
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When work had to be done, we all pitched in , even when the task was unpleasant.
well
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This suggests that any bid would be pitched well above the suspension price.
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VanLandingham came around and pitched well for a stretch, seemingly ready to fulfill his vast promise.
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Well , pitching well in the major leagues is all about handling pressure.
■ NOUN
ball
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All too often you pitch the ball short, catch the slope and finish back on the lower layer.
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The strike zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball .
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On the Monday they showed how easy it was for top-class bowlers to pitch the ball up and get wickets.
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More often, though, he preferred to pitch the ball up and get his wickets in less intimidating fashion.
battle
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There was a pitched battle here a few hours ago, but soldiers are nowhere in sight now.
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I had expected rage, flying pupusas, a pitched battle .
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For three weeks he witnessed pitched battles between gendarmes and young demonstrators in the streets of Tizi-Ouzou.
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She so much wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son.
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There were once pitched battles and riotous football matches between colliers and tradesmen around the turn of the last century.
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The month before, the Metropolitans had fought a pitched battle with their rivals for control of City Hall.
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He describes how he killed two young workers taken prisoner in a pitched battle inside a factory workshop.
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Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
camp
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Then, as abruptly as it had pitched camp , the caravan moved on.
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Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought.
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That evening they pitched their camp on a shoulder of dry ground above a valley, thankful for the respite.
game
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First pitch of the split-squad game with the Giants: a Marvin Benard bunt that Brosius charged hard.
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They had great pitching performances all three games .
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Left-hander Scott Radinsky, bothered by tendinitis in his left middle finger, will pitch a simulated game against hitters today.
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Brown was supposed to pitch Game 4, then Game 5, but was scratched both times because of a stomach virus.
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Tom Candiotti and Ramon Martinez will pitch in the B game .
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The third-string pitcher, a kid named Ingrid, has pitched a great game .
innings
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Left-hander Joey Eischen and right-hander Mike Harkey each pitched two scoreless innings .
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Ismael Valdes pitched four scoreless innings and the Dodgers defeated the Expos 3-1 in a game rained out after five innings.
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Maddux pitched eight shutout innings and could have gone nine or 10 more.
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In his second exhibition start, Tom Candiotti pitched four scoreless innings .
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Right-hander Ismael Valdes started and pitched three innings .
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Will Cunnane, a former Marlin, pitched two stout innings , running his scoreless streak to 13 1 / 3 innings.
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In the Dodgers' third and final intrasquad game of the season, Valdes started and pitched two innings .
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Ace Mark Leiter pitched four innings , giving up a run, walking two and striking out two.
level
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This course is very widely available and it is pitched at the right level for the medical teacher.
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The noise was pitched to a level of pain he absorbed as a personal test.
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The projects were pitched at different levels , so that in the strictest sense the students were working in a parallel fashion.
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Perhaps the task in hand is too easily achieved or is pitched at an inappropriate level .
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Only by doing so can one judge whether the amount of procedural protection is being pitched at the correct level . 1.
sale
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To reinforce the sales pitch , the video van will return to the village next month.
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There was nothing spectacular about my sales pitch except the language in which it was couched.
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Charles's talk was an artful and seductive sales pitch ....
tent
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In which wilderness have they pitched their tents ?
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If he keeps blossoming at this rate, too, basketball coaches soon will be pitching tents in his yard.
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Joel arrived in time to pitch my tent .
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That was how Master Yehudi came to pitch his tent in Kansas.
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After pitching their tents , the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights.
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Troops could scarcely find dry ground on which to pitch their tents .
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It was late by the time we had finished chatting and they cycled off to find somewhere to pitch their tent .
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We trailed off into the canyons, and pitched tents under the conifers.
■ VERB
start
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Right-hander Ismael Valdes started and pitched three innings.
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In the Dodgers' third and final intrasquad game of the season, Valdes started and pitched two innings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(at) fever pitch
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By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch.
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Excitement grew to a fever pitch.
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Her legs trembled as his strokes of desire on her thighs crazed her need to fever pitch.
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In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch.
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Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
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The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
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The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
sales pitch/talk
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Don't give them a sales pitch because there is nothing more irritating.
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He is running out of possible patrons, sales talk, flirtatiousness, hair, steam.
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None of this is likely to stop a flurry of sales pitches from mutual-fund salespeople.
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Personally I think this is another of his sales pitches.
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The sales pitch can be so slick that many consumers don't even realize they have bought magazines until the bill arrives.
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The sales pitch is a wonderful movie moment.
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The analogy of the sales pitch is revealing, for advertisers do not promote their product merely by providing information about it.
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There was nothing spectacular about my sales pitch except the language in which it was couched.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A sudden gust of wind pitched him off the ledge and he was left hanging by his safety rope.
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Johnny learned to pitch by aiming at a target his Dad had painted on the side of the garage.
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Ryan pitched a curve ball which easily beat the batter.
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She pitched the ball to the little boy.
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Stanton pitched to two batters in the ninth inning.
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The investment was pitched to parents as a safe way to deal with rising college costs.
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Tod pitched his coat onto the sofa and ran toward the kitchen.
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Two of the crew were pitched overboard when a big wave hit their ship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All too often you pitch the ball short, catch the slope and finish back on the lower layer.
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I have come home and there is not left me a place on which to pitch my lodge.
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I hear Aubrey pitching his voice above the hubbub: engines; horns; bicycle bells.
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Phil Niekro pitched on two division winners.
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Seawitch tugged at her line again, pitching on the rising swell.
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Steinbach will have his hands full with a pitching staff fresh out of the box.
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Swing low, sweet Chariot is left unaccompanied, but that involves a disturbing oddity of pitching at the start.