pitched

adjective4

1. •
   Having a specified tonal range.

   • a high-pitched scream
2. •
   Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.

   • nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
3. •
   Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

   • The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.
   • If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.
4. •
   Covered in pitch.