10. pitch on or upon choose, pick, light on, single out, decide on, determine, elect, opt for.
-n. 11. position, level, grade, rung, place, station; degree, extent, reach, compass, range, measure, rate; point.
12. angle, inclination, slope, slant, tilt, cant; declivity, downgrade, decline, dip, drop, descent.
13. highest point, height, summit, top, crown, peak, apex, zenith.
14. (all of music, speech, etc.) tone, tonality, timbre, key; color, modulation, intensity, depth, gravity.
15. throw, toss, Chiefly Brit, chuck, Chiefly Baseball SI. peg, cast, heave, hurl, fling, serve, jaculation.
16. forward plunge, jerk; lurch, list, roll, reel, toss, tumble; swing, sway, veer, swerve, skew; stagger, totter.
17. Slang, sales talk, approach, Inf. spiel, fast talk, hard sell, SI. line, Inf. song and dance, SI. bill of goods. pitch², n. bitumen, asphalt, maltha, gilsonite, tar; colophony, rosin, resin, mastic; sap, turpentine. pitcher¹, n. container, ewer, jar, bottle, cruse, crock, jug; urn, samovar; tankard, stein, toby, mug. pitcher², n. thrower, flinger, hurler, shot-putter, Chiefly Class. Antiq. discobolus, pitchy, adj. 1. tarry, bituminous, resinous, sappy; gummy, tacky, sticky.
2. black, coal-black, jet, jetty, pitch-black; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, nigritudinous, atramentous; blackish, nigrescent; dark, unilluminated, lightless, unlighted, moonless. piteous, adj. pathetic, pathetical, pitiful, pitiable, to be pitied; sad, doleful, dolorous, dolorific, sorrowful, distressing, mournful, grievous, plaintive; lamentable, regrettable, deplorable, rueful, woeful, woebegone; touching, moving, affecting, affective, affec-tional, melting, heartrending, heart-moving, heartbreaking; tender, poignant, emotional, emotive, pitfall, n. 1. trap, snare, trap door, pit, Obs. toil; springe, gin, deadfall.
2. hazard, peril, danger, real danger, danger point, where one could go wrong, thing to look out or keep an eye out for, SI. killer; catch, catch-22, trick, trip, SI. hooker. pith, n. 1. essence, quintessence, quiddity, haeccei-ty, elixir, spirit, soul, heart and soul, sap, essential part; main idea or point, what it's all about, the real meaning, nuts and bolts, Inf. nub, Inf. nitty-gritty, fundamental, basic point or idea; heart, heart of the matter, gist, meat, core, nucleus, kernel, crux, salient point; marrow, important or vital part, Law. gravamen; center, midst, focus, focal point; sum and substance, meaning, general idea, what [s.t.] boils down to.
2. weight, weightiness, gravity, graveness, heaviness, character; strength, power, potency, force, might, Literary, puissance, Inf. punch, Inf. pizzazz; substance, import, importance, depth, significance, moment, consequence, matter, value; soundness, solidity, firmness; basis, base, grounding, groundwork, foundation, support, backbone. pithy, adj. succinct, concise, compact, tight, tight-knit, finely honed, sharply focused; epigrammatic, laconic, aphoristic, apothegmatic, gnomic, short and sweet, sententious; capsule, condensed, summary, synoptic, in a nutshell, compendious; pointed, to the point, straightforward, direct; powerful, forceful, forcible, effective, telling, potent, Literary, puissant; meaningful, heavy, weighty, meaty, deep, profound;