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PITCHING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pitching" is a kind of...):

playing (the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

Example:

the pitching and tossing was quite exciting

Synonyms:

lurch; pitch; pitching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pitching" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pitching"):

careen; rock; sway; tilt (pitching dangerously to one side)

Derivation:

pitch (move abruptly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb pitch

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