The difference between Deal and Pitch

When used as nouns, deal means a division, a portion, a share, whereas pitch means a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees.

When used as verbs, deal means to distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one's portion or share, whereas pitch means to cover or smear with pitch.

Deal is also adjective with the meaning: made of deal.

check bellow for the other definitions of Deal and Pitch

  1. Deal as a noun (obsolete):

    A division, a portion, a share.

    Examples:

    "We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king."

  2. Deal as a noun (often followed by ''of''):

    An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by or ).

    Examples:

    "synonyms: batch flock good deagreat deahatfuheap load lot mass mess mickle mint muckle peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum wad whole lot whole slew"

  1. Deal as a verb (transitive):

    To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one's portion or share.

    Examples:

    "The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory."

  2. Deal as a verb (transitive):

    To administer or give out, as in small portions.

  3. Deal as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To distribute cards to the players in a game.

    Examples:

    "I was dealt four aces."

    "The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt."

  4. Deal as a verb (baseball):

    To pitch.

    Examples:

    "The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger."

  5. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To have dealings or business.

  6. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To conduct oneself, to behave.

  7. Deal as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To take action; to act.

  8. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To trade professionally (followed by in).

    Examples:

    "She deals in gold."

  9. Deal as a verb (transitive):

    To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

    Examples:

    "This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs."

  10. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To be concerned with.

  11. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To handle, to manage, to cope.

    Examples:

    "I can't deal with this."

    "I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal."

  1. Deal as a noun (archaic, _, in general sense):

    An act of dealing or sharing out.

  2. Deal as a noun:

    The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

    Examples:

    "I didn’t have a good deal all evening."

    "I believe it's your deal."

  3. Deal as a noun:

    A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction

    Examples:

    "We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight."

  4. Deal as a noun:

    Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.

  5. Deal as a noun:

    An agreement between parties; an arrangement

    Examples:

    "He made a deal with the devil."

  6. Deal as a noun (informal):

    A situation, occasion, or event.

    Examples:

    "What's the deal?"

  7. Deal as a noun (informal):

    A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.

    Examples:

    "The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork."

  1. Deal as a noun (uncountable):

    Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

  2. Deal as a noun (countable):

    A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)

  3. Deal as a noun (countable, archaic):

    A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.

  1. Deal as an adjective:

    Made of deal.

    Examples:

    "A plain deal table"

  1. Pitch as a noun:

    A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

    Examples:

    "It is hard to get this pitch off my hand."

  2. 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."

  3. Pitch as a noun (geology):

    Pitchstone.

  1. Pitch as a verb:

    To cover or smear with pitch.

  2. Pitch as a verb:

    To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

  1. Pitch as a noun:

    A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.

    Examples:

    "a good pitch in quoits"

  2. Pitch as a noun (baseball):

    The act of pitching a baseball.

    Examples:

    "The pitch was low and inside."

  3. 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."

  4. Pitch as a noun:

    An effort to sell or promote something.

    Examples:

    "He gave me a sales pitch."

  5. 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."

  6. Pitch as a noun:

    The angle at which an object sits.

    Examples:

    "the pitch of the roof or haystack"

  7. Pitch as a noun (by extension):

    A level or degree, or , a peak or highest degree.

  8. 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."

  9. Pitch as a noun:

    The place where a busker performs.

  10. Pitch as a noun:

    An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.

  11. Pitch as a noun:

    An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.

  12. Pitch as a noun:

    A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.

  13. Pitch as a noun (climbing):

    A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.

  14. 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."

  15. Pitch as a noun (now, _, British, regional):

    A person or animal's height.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Hudibras"

  16. Pitch as a noun (cricket):

    That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

  17. Pitch as a noun:

    A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

  18. 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"

  19. Pitch as a noun (mining):

    The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

  1. Pitch as a verb (transitive):

    To throw.

    Examples:

    "He pitched the horseshoe."

  2. 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."

  3. Pitch as a verb (intransitive, baseball):

    To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

    Examples:

    "Bob pitches today."

  4. Pitch as a verb (transitive):

    To throw away; discard.

    Examples:

    "He pitched the candy wrapper."

  5. Pitch as a verb (transitive):

    To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.

    Examples:

    "He pitched the idea for months with no takers."

  6. 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?"

  7. Pitch as a verb (transitive):

    To assemble or erect (a tent).

    Examples:

    " Pitch the tent over there."

  8. Pitch as a verb (intransitive):

    To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

  9. 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."

  10. 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."

  11. Pitch as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To bounce on the playing surface.

    Examples:

    "The ball pitched well short of the batsman."

  12. Pitch as a verb (intransitive, Bristol, of snow):

    To settle and build up, without melting.

  13. Pitch as a verb (intransitive, archaic):

    To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

  14. Pitch as a verb (with '''[[on]]''' or '''[[upon]]'''):

    To fix one's choice.

  15. 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."

  16. Pitch as a verb (transitive, of an embankment, roadway):

    To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  17. Pitch as a verb (transitive, of a price, value):

    To set or fix.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  18. Pitch as a verb (transitive, card games, slang, of a card):

    To discard for some gain.

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  1. Pitch as a verb (intransitive):

    To produce a note of a given pitch.

  2. Pitch as a verb (transitive):

    To fix or set the tone of.

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