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PITCHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
Example:
they have a southpaw on the mound
Synonyms:
mound; pitcher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pitcher" is a kind of...):
position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)
Holonyms ("pitcher" is a member of...):
baseball team (a team that plays baseball)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
Synonyms:
ewer; pitcher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pitcher" is a kind of...):
vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pitcher"):
cream pitcher; creamer (a small pitcher for serving cream)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(baseball) the person who does the pitching
Example:
our pitcher has a sore arm
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pitcher" is a kind of...):
ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)
thrower (someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm))
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)
softball; softball game (a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pitcher"):
left-handed pitcher; left-hander; left hander; lefthander; lefty; southpaw (a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand)
right-handed pitcher; right-hander ((baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand)
fireman; relief pitcher; reliever (a pitcher who does not start the game)
screwballer ((baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs)
starting pitcher ((baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game)
Derivation:
pitch (throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pitcher" is a kind of...):
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The quantity contained in a pitcher
Synonyms:
pitcher; pitcherful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("pitcher" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
Context examples:
I don't think I ever ought to call myself 'unlucky Jo' again, when my greatest wish has been so beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's little fist out of the milk pitcher, in which he was rapturously churning.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request:—She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Each wanted to be first at drawing the water, and so they were in such a hurry that all let their pitchers fall into the well, and they stood very foolishly looking at one another, and did not know what to do, for none dared go home.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The tall girls went out and returned presently, each bearing a tray, with portions of something, I knew not what, arranged thereon, and a pitcher of water and mug in the middle of each tray.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of a pitcher which I flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr. Rochester at last.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She, too, was attired in oriental fashion: a crimson scarf tied sash-like round the waist: an embroidered handkerchief knotted about her temples; her beautifully-moulded arms bare, one of them upraised in the act of supporting a pitcher, poised gracefully on her head.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
