Field vs. Pitch
Fieldnoun
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
Fieldnoun
The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
Fieldnoun
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
Fieldnoun
(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
Fieldnoun
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
Fieldnoun
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
Fieldnoun
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
Fieldnoun
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
Fieldnoun
A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
Fieldnoun
(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
Fieldnoun
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
Fieldnoun
(physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
Fieldnoun
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
Fieldnoun
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
Fieldverb
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
Fieldverb
To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
Fieldverb
To place (a team) in a game.
Fieldverb
(transitive) To answer; to address.
Fieldverb
(transitive) To defeat.
Fieldverb
(transitive) To execute research (in the field).
Fieldverb
To deploy in the field.
Fieldnoun
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Fieldnoun
A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
Fieldnoun
A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
Fieldnoun
An open space; an extent; an expanse.
Fieldnoun
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
Fieldnoun
An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
Fieldnoun
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
Fieldnoun
That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.
Fieldverb
To take the field.
Fieldverb
To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
Fieldverb
To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Fieldnoun
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;
Fieldnoun
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;
Fieldnoun
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected;
Fieldnoun
a branch of knowledge;
Fieldnoun
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
Fieldnoun
a particular kind of commercial enterprise;
Fieldnoun
a particular environment or walk of life;
Fieldnoun
a piece of land prepared for playing a game;
Fieldnoun
extensive tract of level open land;
Fieldnoun
(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1;
Fieldnoun
a region in which active military operations are in progress;
Fieldnoun
all of the horses in a particular horse race
Fieldnoun
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Fieldnoun
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;
Fieldnoun
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Fieldnoun
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Fieldnoun
a place where planes take off and land
Fieldverb
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Fieldverb
play as a fielder
Fieldverb
answer adequately or successfully;
Fieldverb
select (a team or individual player) for a game;
Pitchnoun
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
Pitchnoun
A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
Pitchnoun
(geology) Pitchstone.
Pitchnoun
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
Pitchnoun
(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
Pitchnoun
(sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" is the preferred word.
Pitchnoun
An effort to sell or promote something.
Pitchnoun
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
Pitchnoun
The angle at which an object sits.
Pitchnoun
A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
Pitchnoun
The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
Pitchnoun
The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
Pitchnoun
(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
Pitchnoun
The place where a busker performs.
Pitchnoun
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
Pitchnoun
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
Pitchnoun
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
Pitchnoun
(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
Pitchnoun
(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
Pitchnoun
A person or animal's height.
Pitchnoun
(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitchnoun
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitchnoun
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
Pitchnoun
(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitchnoun
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
Pitchnoun
(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Pitchverb
To cover or smear with pitch.
Pitchverb
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To throw.
Pitchverb
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
Pitchverb
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To throw away; discard.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitchverb
(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitchverb
To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
Pitchverb
To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
Pitchverb
To bounce on the playing surface.
Pitchverb
To settle and build up, without melting.
Pitchverb
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Pitchverb
(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
Pitchverb
(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
Pitchverb
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
Pitchverb
To set or fix.
Pitchverb
To discard for some gain.
Pitchverb
(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
Pitchnoun
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
Pitchnoun
See Pitchstone.
Pitchnoun
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
Pitchnoun
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitchnoun
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Pitchnoun
Height; stature.
Pitchnoun
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitchnoun
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
Pitchnoun
The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
Pitchnoun
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitchnoun
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.
Pitchnoun
The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.
Pitchverb
To cover over or smear with pitch.
Pitchverb
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Pitchverb
To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
Pitchverb
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
Pitchverb
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
Pitchverb
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
Pitchverb
To set or fix, as a price or value.
Pitchverb
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitchverb
To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Pitchverb
To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.
Pitchverb
To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
Pitchnoun
the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
Pitchnoun
(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Pitchnoun
a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);
Pitchnoun
promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
Pitchnoun
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;
Pitchnoun
any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Pitchnoun
a high approach shot in golf
Pitchnoun
an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
Pitchnoun
abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
Pitchnoun
the action or manner of throwing something;
Pitchverb
throw or toss with a light motion;
Pitchverb
move abruptly;
Pitchverb
fall or plunge forward;
Pitchverb
set to a certain pitch;
Pitchverb
sell or offer for sale from place to place
Pitchverb
be at an angle;
Pitchverb
heel over;
Pitchverb
erect and fasten;
Pitchverb
throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
Pitchverb
hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
Pitchverb
lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
Pitchverb
set the level or character of;
Pitchnoun
the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone
Pitchnoun
a standard degree of highness or lowness used in performance
Pitchnoun
the steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.
Pitchnoun
a section of a climb, especially a steep one.
Pitchnoun
the height to which a hawk soars before swooping on its prey.
Pitchnoun
a level of the intensity of something, especially a high level
Pitchnoun
an area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game
Pitchnoun
the strip of ground between the two sets of stumps
Pitchnoun
a delivery of the ball by the pitcher.
Pitchnoun
the spot where the ball bounces when bowled.
Pitchnoun
a high approach shot on to the green.
Pitchnoun
a form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something
Pitchnoun
a place where a street vendor or performer stations themselves or sets up a stall
Pitchnoun
a swaying or oscillation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle around a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of motion
Pitchnoun
the distance between successive corresponding points or lines, for example between the teeth of a cogwheel.
Pitchnoun
a measure of the angle of the blades of a screw propeller, equal to the distance forward a blade would move in one revolution if it exerted no thrust on the medium.
Pitchnoun
the density of typed or printed characters on a line, typically expressed as numbers of characters per inch.
Pitchnoun
a sticky resinous black or dark brown substance that is semi-liquid when hot and hardens when cold, obtained by distilling tar or turpentine and used for waterproofing.
Pitchnoun
any of various substances similar to pitch, such as asphalt or bitumen.
Pitchverb
set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch
Pitchverb
set or aim at a particular level, target, or audience
Pitchverb
throw roughly or casually
Pitchverb
fall heavily, especially headlong
Pitchverb
throw (the ball) for the batter to try to hit.
Pitchverb
(of a bowler) cause (the ball) to strike the ground at a particular point
Pitchverb
hit (the ball) on to the green with a pitch shot.
Pitchverb
(of the ball) strike the ground in a particular spot
Pitchverb
make a bid to obtain a contract or other business
Pitchverb
try to persuade someone to buy or accept (something)
Pitchverb
set up and fix in position
Pitchverb
fix (the stumps) in the ground and place the bails in preparation for play
Pitchverb
(of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down
Pitchverb
(of a vehicle) move with a vigorous jolting motion
Pitchverb
cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge
Pitchverb
slope downwards
Pitchverb
pave (a road) with stones
Pitchverb
(in brewing) add yeast to (wort) to induce fermentation.
Pitchverb
cover, coat, or smear with pitch.
