Pitch vs. Throw

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.

Throwverb

(transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

Throwverb

(transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.

Throwverb

(transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.

Throwverb

(ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

Throwverb

to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

Throwverb

To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

Throwverb

(sports) To intentionally lose a game.

Throwverb

To confuse or mislead.

Throwverb

(figuratively) To send desperately.

Throwverb

(transitive) To imprison.

Throwverb

To organize an event, especially a party.

Throwverb

(ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).

Throwverb

(transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

Throwverb

To discard.

Throwverb

(martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.

Throwverb

To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.

Throwverb

(transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

Throwverb

(transitive) To project or send forth.

Throwverb

To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

Throwverb

To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

Throwverb

To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

Throwverb

(transitive) To install (a bridge).

Throwverb

To twist or turn.

Throwverb

To give birth to.

Thrownoun

The flight of a thrown object.

Thrownoun

The act of throwing something.

Thrownoun

One's ability to throw.

Thrownoun

A distance travelled; displacement.

Thrownoun

A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

Thrownoun

A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

Thrownoun

Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

Thrownoun

(veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

Thrownoun

(obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.

Thrownoun

(obsolete) A period of time; a while.

Thrownoun

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

Thrownoun

Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.

Thrownoun

The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.

Thrownoun

A stroke; a blow.

Thrownoun

The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.

Thrownoun

A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.

Thrownoun

An effort; a violent sally.

Thrownoun

The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.

Thrownoun

A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).

Thrownoun

A turner's lathe; a throwe.

Thrownoun

The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; - according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

Throwverb

To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; - distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.

Throwverb

To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

Throwverb

To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

Throwverb

To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.

Throwverb

To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

Throwverb

To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.

Throwverb

To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

Throwverb

To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.

Throwverb

To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

Throwverb

To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.

Throwverb

To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; - said especially of rabbits.

Throwverb

To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; - sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

Throwverb

To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.

Thrownoun

the act of throwing (propelling something through the air with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist);

Thrownoun

a single chance or instance;

Thrownoun

the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam

Thrownoun

the distance that something can be thrown;

Thrownoun

bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something

Thrownoun

the throwing of an object in order to determine an outcome randomly;

Throwverb

project through the air;

Throwverb

move violently, energetically, or carelessly;

Throwverb

get rid of;

Throwverb

place or put with great energy;

Throwverb

convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture;

Throwverb

cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation;

Throwverb

put or send forth;

Throwverb

to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly;

Throwverb

cause to be confused emotionally

Throwverb

utter with force; utter vehemently;

Throwverb

organize or be responsible for;

Throwverb

make on a potter's wheel;

Throwverb

cause to fall off;

Throwverb

throw (a die) out onto a flat surface;

Throwverb

be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;