The difference between Field and Pitch
When used as nouns, field means a land area free of woodland, cities, and towns, whereas pitch means a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees.
When used as verbs, field means to intercept or catch (a ball) and play it, whereas pitch means to cover or smear with pitch.
check bellow for the other definitions of Field and Pitch
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Field as a noun (usually, plural):
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. The open country near or belonging to a town or city. # An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
Examples:
"There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field."
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Field as a noun (geology):
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. A region containing a particular mineral.
Examples:
"There were some cows grazing in a field."
"A crop circle was made in a corn field."
"oil field;  gold field'"
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Field as a noun (baseball, obsolete):
A place where competitive matches are carried out. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one's physical force. # The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat). # The outfield. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals. All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
Examples:
"soccer field'"
"Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked."
"This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field."
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Field as a noun (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. # The extent of a given perception. # A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory. # A domain of study, knowledge or practice. #* {{quote-journal|lang=en|date=2013-05-10|author=Audrey Garric |volume=188|issue=22|page=30|magazine= |title=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/04/paris-green-roofs-building-climate-environment Urban canopies let nature bloom] |passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}} # An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement. #* |title=The History Of England From the Accession of James II|volume=1|chapter=IV|year=1848|passage=Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.}} #* |title=The Way We Live Now|year=1875|section=Chap. II|passage=Tidings had reached her of this and the other man's success, and,—coming near to her still,—of this and that other woman's earnings in literature. And it had seemed to her that, within moderate limits, she might give a wide field to her hopes.}} # A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols. # The background of the shield. # The background of the flag. # A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data. #* [https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_form_required.asp PHP 5 Forms Required Fields] at W3Schools #*: From the validation rules table on the previous page, we see that the "Name", "E-mail", and "Gender" fields are required. These fields cannot be empty and must be filled out in the HTML form. # A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored. ## An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
Examples:
"magnetic field;  gravitational field;  scalar field'"
"'field of view"
"The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture."
"'Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists."
"He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted."
"He was an expert in the field of Chinese history."
"The set of rational numbers, <math>\mathbb{Q}</math>, is the prototypical field."
"The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and ship-to address."
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Field as a verb (transitive, sports):
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
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Field as a verb (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports):
To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
Examples:
"The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting."
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Field as a verb (transitive, sports):
To place a team in (a game).
Examples:
"The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper."
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Field as a verb (transitive):
To answer; to address.
Examples:
"She will field questions immediately after her presentation."
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Field as a verb (transitive):
To defeat.
Examples:
"They fielded a fearsome army."
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Field as a verb (transitive):
To execute research (in the field).
Examples:
"He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product."
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Field as a verb (transitive, military):
To deploy in the field.
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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.