Peach vs. Pitch

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Peachnoun

A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

Peachnoun

The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

Peachnoun

A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

Peachnoun

(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

Peachadjective

Of or pertaining to the color peach.

Peachadjective

Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Peachverb

To inform on someone; turn informer.

Peachverb

To inform against.

Peachverb

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

Peachverb

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

Peachnoun

A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone. In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

Peachnoun

The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.

Peachnoun

The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.

Peachnoun

cultivated in temperate regions

Peachnoun

a very attractive or seductive looking woman

Peachnoun

downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

Peachnoun

a shade of pink tinged with yellow

Peachverb

divulge confidential information or secrets;

Peach

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned varieties), nectarines.

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.