What is the meaning of pitching?

noun

• Baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team. (
• Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance. )
  • usage: "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
  • synonyms: lurch, pitch

verb

• Throw or toss with a light motion.
  • usage: "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"
  • synonyms: flip, toss, sky, pitch
• Move abruptly.
  • usage: "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
  • synonyms: lurch, pitch, shift
• Fall or plunge forward.
  • usage: "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"
  • synonyms: pitch
• Set to a certain pitch.
  • usage: "He pitched his voice very low"
  • synonyms: pitch
• Sell or offer for sale from place to place.
  • synonyms: peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch
• Be at an angle.
  • usage: "The terrain sloped down"
  • synonyms: slope, incline, pitch
• Heel over.
  • usage: "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
  • synonyms: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
• Erect and fasten.
  • usage: "pitch a tent"
  • synonyms: pitch, set up
• Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball.
  • usage: "The pitcher delivered the ball"
  • synonyms: deliver, pitch
• Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.
  • synonyms: pitch
• Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.
  • synonyms: pitch
• Set the level or character of.
  • usage: "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
  • synonyms: gear, pitch