pitched

verbo

1. 1

   También una forma de pitchsimple past and past participle of pitch

adjetivo

1. 1

   Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

   a pitched roof

   The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.

   If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.

2. 2

   Having a specified tonal range.

   a high-pitched scream

   Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better.

3. 3

   Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.

   a pitched battle

   nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall

4. 4

   Covered in pitch.

   He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

Formas

comparativo

more pitched

superlativo

most pitched