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  • 41Pitch (music) — In musical notation, the different vertical positions of notes indicate different pitches. Pitch is an auditory perceptual property that allows the ordering of sounds on a frequency related scale.[1] Pitches are compared as higher and lower in… …

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  • 42Pitch invasion — A pitch invasion, known as rushing the field in the United States, occurs when a crowd of people who are watching a sports game run onto the field, to celebrate or protest about an incident, for example in games of football or cricket. Rugby… …

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  • 43pitch*/ — [pɪtʃ] noun I 1) [C] British a flat area of ground that is used for playing sports on a football/cricket/rugby pitch[/ex] Hundreds of fans invaded the pitch at the end of the game.[/ex] 2) [singular/U] the level of someone s emotions Excitement… …

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  • 44make — [c]/meɪk / (say mayk) verb (made, making) –verb (t) 1. to bring into existence by shaping material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress. 2. to produce by any action or causative agency: to make trouble. 3. to cause to be or become; render: to… …

  • 45Pitch (baseball) — In baseball, a pitch is the act of throwing a baseball toward home plate to start a play. The term comes from the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, the ball had to be literally pitched underhand, as with pitching horseshoes. Overhead throwing was… …

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  • 46pitch — Synonyms and related words: AF, French pitch, abuse, acme, address, after dinner speech, allocution, amount, angularity, apex, apogee, ascend, asphalt, assail, assault, assist, attack, audio frequency, ballyhoo, bank, base, belabor, belly buster …

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  • 47pitch — I v 1. erect, set up, raise, rear; encamp, station, locate, situate. 2. establish, fix, determine, decide upon, settle, set, stabilize; plant, put, place. 3. fling, cast, throw, toss; heave, hurl, sling, catapult, launch; dart, Brit. Sl. bung,… …

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  • 48pitch against — phrasal verb [transitive, often passive] Word forms pitch against : present tense I/you/we/they pitch against he/she/it pitches against present participle pitching against past tense pitched against past participle pitched against informal pitch… …

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  • 49pitch into — Synonyms and related words: accept, ambush, assail, assault, assume, attack, attempt, blitz, buckle to, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, draw first blood, embark in, embark upon, endeavor,… …

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  • 50For Love of the Game — Infobox Book | name = For Love of the Game title orig = translator = image caption = author = Michael Shaara cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Sports novel publisher = Carroll Graf Publishers release date …

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