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# pitcher

«pitcher» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large jug with a handle and a lip for pouring drinks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pitcher, pitchers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pitcher is a large jug with a handle and a lip for pouring drinks such as water, milk or juice (US: any jug; UK: often a big pottery jug). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#m1)

2) (sport) In baseball and softball, the pitcher is the player who throws the ball to the batter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#m2)

3) A pitcher plant is a plant with jug-shaped leaves that trap and digest insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a pitcher holds a capacity (a 2-litre pitcher) in measuring problems. In US school life and sport, the pitcher is the key player in a baseball game. In science, pitcher plants are meat-eating plants. Old saying: "Little pitchers have big ears" means children hear more than adults think.

### examples

- Please fill the pitcher with cold water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x1)
- A pitcher of lemonade stood on the picnic table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x2)
- The pitcher holds 2 litres; how many 250 ml cups can you fill? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x3)
- Our team's pitcher threw three strikes in a row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x4)
- She wants to be the pitcher in the softball team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x5)
- A pitcher plant traps flies inside its slippery leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x6)
- Dad poured milk from the pitcher into our glasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x7)
- So saying, she broke her pitcher and went home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/#x8)

### note

Countable: pitchers. In British English "jug" is more common for drinks; "pitcher" sounds American. In baseball the pitcher throws, the batter hits, the catcher catches. Do not confuse with "picture".

### In the corpora

- [Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pitcher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitcher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.