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PITCHING
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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:
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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