The difference between Buy and Pitch
When used as nouns, buy means something which is bought, whereas pitch means a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees.
When used as verbs, buy means to obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods, whereas pitch means to cover or smear with pitch.
check bellow for the other definitions of Buy and Pitch
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Buy as a verb (transitive):
To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
Examples:
"I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday."
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Buy as a verb (transitive):
To obtain by some sacrifice.
Examples:
"I've [[bought]] material comfort by foregoing my dreams."
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Buy as a verb (transitive):
To bribe.
Examples:
"He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs."
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Buy as a verb (transitive):
To be equivalent to in value.
Examples:
"The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to."
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Buy as a verb (transitive, informal):
to accept as true; to believe
Examples:
"I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!"
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Buy as a verb (intransitive):
To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
Examples:
"She buys for Federated."
"Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying."
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Buy as a verb (poker slang, transitive):
To make a bluff, usually a large one.
Examples:
"Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff"
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Buy as a noun:
Something which is bought; a purchase.
Examples:
"At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy."
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Pitch as a noun:
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
Examples:
"It is hard to get this pitch off my hand."
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Pitch as a noun:
A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
Examples:
"They put pitch on the mast to protect it."
"The barrel was sealed with pitch."
"It was pitch black because there was no moon."
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Pitch as a noun (geology):
Pitchstone.
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Pitch as a verb:
To cover or smear with pitch.
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Pitch as a verb:
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
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Pitch as a noun:
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
Examples:
"a good pitch in quoits"
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Pitch as a noun (baseball):
The act of pitching a baseball.
Examples:
"The pitch was low and inside."
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Pitch as a noun (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.
Examples:
"The teams met on the pitch."
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Pitch as a noun:
An effort to sell or promote something.
Examples:
"He gave me a sales pitch."
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Pitch as a noun:
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.
Examples:
"The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch."
"The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood."
"A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning."
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Pitch as a noun:
The angle at which an object sits.
Examples:
"the pitch of the roof or haystack"
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Pitch as a noun (by extension):
A level or degree, or , a peak or highest degree.
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Pitch as a noun (nautical, aviation):
The rotation angle about the transverse axis. 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. A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
Examples:
"the pitch of an aircraft"
"The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered."
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Pitch as a noun:
The place where a busker performs.
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Pitch as a noun:
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
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Pitch as a noun:
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
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Pitch as a noun:
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
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Pitch as a noun (climbing):
A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
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Pitch as a noun (caving):
A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
Examples:
"The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope."
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Pitch as a noun (now, _, British, regional):
A person or animal's height.
Examples:
"rfquotek Hudibras"
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Pitch as a noun (cricket):
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
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Pitch as a noun:
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
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Pitch as a noun:
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
Examples:
"a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof"
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Pitch as a noun (mining):
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
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Pitch as a verb (transitive):
To throw.
Examples:
"He pitched the horseshoe."
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Pitch as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, baseball):
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
Examples:
"lb transitive ''The hurler pitched a curveball."
"lb intransitive ''He pitched high and inside."
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive, baseball):
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Examples:
"Bob pitches today."
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Pitch as a verb (transitive):
To throw away; discard.
Examples:
"He pitched the candy wrapper."
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Pitch as a verb (transitive):
To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
Examples:
"He pitched the idea for months with no takers."
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Pitch as a verb (transitive):
To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
Examples:
"At which level should I pitch my presentation?"
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Pitch as a verb (transitive):
To assemble or erect (a tent).
Examples:
" Pitch the tent over there."
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive):
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
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Pitch as a verb (ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical):
To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
Examples:
"lb transitive ''The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship."
"lb intransitive ''The airplane pitched."
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Pitch as a verb (transitive, golf):
To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
Examples:
"The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker."
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive, cricket):
To bounce on the playing surface.
Examples:
"The ball pitched well short of the batsman."
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive, Bristol, of snow):
To settle and build up, without melting.
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
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Pitch as a verb (with '''[[on]]''' or '''[[upon]]'''):
To fix one's choice.
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive):
To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
Examples:
"to pitch from a precipice"
"The field pitches toward the east."
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Pitch as a verb (transitive, of an embankment, roadway):
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Pitch as a verb (transitive, of a price, value):
To set or fix.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Pitch as a verb (transitive, card games, slang, of a card):
To discard for some gain.
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Pitch as a noun (music, phonetics):
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
Examples:
"The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians."
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Pitch as a noun (music):
In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Examples:
" Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start."
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Pitch as a verb (intransitive):
To produce a note of a given pitch.
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Pitch as a verb (transitive):
To fix or set the tone of.