Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
pitcher en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/ (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɹ̩] (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃə] (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From pitch + -er.
Meanings
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One who pitches (in any sense) anything
A quoits pitcher
A tent pitcher
A pitcher of ideas
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The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
2003, John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History: 1954–1967, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 210:
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(slang) A drug dealer.
To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
2000, Michael Massing, The Fix, page 67:
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(UK, obsolete, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:
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(US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
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(obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
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One who makes a pitch or proposal.
The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A person who sells anything in the streets.
Forms
Coordinates
baseman · catcher · infielder · outfielder
Deriveds
switch pitcher · pitcherlike · starting pitcher · nonpitcher · relief pitcher · pitchered · fly-pitcher
Hypernyms
baseball player
Synonyms
snide pitcher · top
Translations (33)
fr lanceur (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · es lanzador (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · pt lançador (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · pt ativo (gay dominant sex partner) · mi kaiepa (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · eo lanĉulo (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · es monticulista (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · ca llançador (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · bg питчър (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · cmn 投手 (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · sv kastare (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · ko 투수 (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · fr lanceuse (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · hu dobó (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · es activo (gay dominant sex partner) · it attivo (gay dominant sex partner) · ko 피처 (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · nl werper (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · sv pitcher (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · fi lukkari (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · eo ĵetanto (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · de Pitcher (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · mk фрлач (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · fi syöttäjä (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · ja ピッチャー (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · pl miotacz (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · es pícher (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · ja 投手 (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · es soplanucas (gay dominant sex partner) · de Werfer (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · ru пи́тчер (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · it lanciatore (the player who throws the ball to the batter) · es lanzadora (the player who throws the ball to the batter)
pitcher en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/ (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɹ̩] (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃə] (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.
Meanings
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A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
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A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel. But this beetle (left) was observed to visit with impunity and even appeared to be scavenging insect bodies from the pitcher.
1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 551:
Forms
Deriveds
Charley-pitcher · little pitchers have big ears · pitcherful · little pitcher · the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last · pitcher-bawd · rinse-pitcher · pitcher sage · pitcher plant
Relateds
flagon
Translations (85)
de Krug (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · hy կարաս (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · pl dzban (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · gl pichel (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · la fūtis (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ga crúsca (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · cy stên (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sq shtambë (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fi kannu (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · gl xerro (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · afb دولكة (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sq brokë (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ko 주전자 (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ota دستی (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · xfa cuto (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · mi takawai (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · mi tiaka (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · es pícher (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · hy կուժ (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · pt jarro (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · hy սափոր (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ar إِبْرِيق (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · it brocca (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fr cruche (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ota صراحی (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fa پارچ (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · bg глинена кана (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · cop ⲕⲏⲃⲓ (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fi kaadin (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · am ደምበጃን (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · es pítcher (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ta கிண்டி (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ja 水差し (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · aii ܐܲܒ݂ܪܝܼܩܵܐ (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · nl kan (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · pt jarra (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · aii ܬܲܠܡܵܐ (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ja ピッチャー (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · as কলহ (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sw nzio (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · bo ཟངས་རྐྱན (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · arz شفشقبلاص (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · pl kruża (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · de Karaffe (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · cmn 罐 (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · pdt Kaunkje (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · io krucho (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · cs džbán (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · mk кондир (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · th เหยือก (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · hu korsó (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · es jarra (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · cmn 罐子 (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · grc κρωσσός (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ro bărdacă (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · el κανάτα (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sq kënatë (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · mk бокал (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ar زِير (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · tr sürahi (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · arz أبريق (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · he כד (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fr pichet (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fi vesikannu (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · de Kanne (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · bo རྫ་རྐྱན (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · is kanna (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ca gerra (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · es pichel (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sk džbán (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · cmn 大罐 (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ml കിണ്ടി (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ta செம்பு (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · gl xerra (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · fi vesikannu (A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants) · it caraffa (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · war pitsil (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · tl pitsel (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sa कलश (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · nrf bro (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · hu kancsó (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · az dolça (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · sv tillbringare (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · ru кувши́н (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids) · la urceus (A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids)