{
    "term": "pitch",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/sp/sports_team.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an area of ground specially prepared and marked for playing a sports game",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English, British English",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **football pitch**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a cricket/rugby/hockey pitch"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an artificial pitch"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After the game fans invaded the pitch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch *(= they lost their matches and the players behaved badly while on tour, getting bad news reports)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was the best player on the pitch today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Negotiations about his transfer are continuing off the pitch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pitch was invaded by angry fans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The players have just come off the pitch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The game ended in chaos with fans invading the pitch."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["all-weather", "grass", "synthetic"],
                "verb + pitch": ["invade", "run onto"],
                "pitch + noun": ["invasion"],
                "preposition": ["off the pitch", "on a/​the pitch"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "how high or low a sound is, especially a musical note",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A basic sense of rhythm and pitch is essential in a music teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pitch of the drum can be raised by tightening the skin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her voice fell in pitch as she grew older."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The instrument is not tuned to the correct pitch."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language", "Music"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "low", "correct"],
                "verb + pitch": ["fall in", "rise in", "change"],
                "phrases": ["have perfect pitch"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the degree or strength of a feeling or activity; the highest point of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a frenetic pitch of activity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Speculation has reached such a pitch that a decision will have to be made immediately."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to reach a high pitch of excitement"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fever", "high"],
                "verb + pitch": ["reach", "rise to"],
                "preposition": ["pitch of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "talk or arguments used by a person trying to sell something or persuade people to do something",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an aggressive **sales pitch**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the candidate’s campaign pitch"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each company was given ten minutes to **make its pitch**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Farley was about to make a pitch to a big client."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His pitch to the business community was based on common sense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Marcelo will be making his pitch to a small number of potential clients."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The executives listened open-mouthed as she seamlessly delivered a pitch for their business."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a strong pitch delivered by advertising executives"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["sales", "good", "strong"],
                "verb + pitch": ["deliver", "do", "give"],
                "pitch + noun": ["meeting"],
                "preposition": ["pitch for", "pitch to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "an act of throwing the ball; the way in which it is thrown",
            "labels": "especially British English",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["wild"],
                "verb + pitch": ["deliver", "hit", "make"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a black sticky substance made from oil or coal, used on roofs or the wooden boards of a ship to stop water from coming through",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a place in a street or market where somebody sells things, or where somebody performs in order to entertain people outdoors",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "a place in a campsite where you can put up one tent or park one caravan, etc.",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Pitches to rent from only £15 per night."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "the movement of a ship up and down in the water or of an aircraft in the air",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "the degree to which a roof slopes",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The pitch of the roof is 45 degrees."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make a determined effort to get something or to persuade somebody of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He made a pitch to black voters in Alabama."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to cause somebody’s plans to fail or to destroy their chances of getting something",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɪtʃ/",
                "audio": "pi/pitch/pitch__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɪtʃ/",
                "audio": "pi/pitch/pitch__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 5 and noun senses 7 to 9 Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘thrust (something pointed) into the ground’ and ‘fall headlong’): perhaps related to Old English picung ‘stigmata’, of unknown ultimate origin. The sense development is obscure. noun sense 6 Old English pic (noun), pician (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pek and German Pech; based on Latin pix, pic-."
}