The difference between Pitch and Throw

When used as nouns, pitch means a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees, whereas throw means the flight of a thrown object.

When used as verbs, pitch means to cover or smear with pitch, whereas throw means to twist or turn.

check bellow for the other definitions of Pitch and Throw

  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.

  1. Throw as a verb (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England):

    To twist or turn.

    Examples:

    "A thrown nail. "

  2. Throw as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "'throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider"

  3. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To eject or cause to fall off.

  4. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To move to another position or condition; to displace.

    Examples:

    "'throw the switch"

  5. Throw as a verb (ceramics):

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

  6. Throw as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

  7. Throw as a verb (transitive, computing):

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

    Examples:

    "If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception."

  8. Throw as a verb (sports):

    To intentionally lose a game.

    Examples:

    "The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match."

  9. Throw as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To confuse or mislead.

    Examples:

    "The deliberate red herring threw me at first."

  10. Throw as a verb (figuratively):

    To send desperately.

    Examples:

    "Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle."

  11. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To imprison.

    Examples:

    "The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail."

  12. Throw as a verb:

    To organize an event, especially a party.

  13. Throw as a verb:

    To roll (a die or dice).

  14. Throw as a verb (transitive):

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

  15. Throw as a verb (transitive, bridge):

    To discard.

  16. Throw as a verb (martial arts):

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

  17. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of one's voice):

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

  18. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

  19. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To project or send forth.

  20. Throw as a verb:

    To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

  21. Throw as a verb:

    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.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tomlinson"

  22. Throw as a verb (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.):

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

  23. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To install a bridge.

  1. Throw as a noun:

    The flight of a thrown object

    Examples:

    "What a great throw by the quarterback!"

  2. Throw as a noun:

    The act of throwing something.

    Examples:

    "With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow."

  3. Throw as a noun:

    One's ability to throw

    Examples:

    "He's got a girl's throw."

    "He's always had a pretty decent throw."

  4. Throw as a noun:

    A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.

  5. Throw as a noun:

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

  6. Throw as a noun:

    A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

    Examples:

    "Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw."

  1. Throw as a noun:

    Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  2. Throw as a noun (veterinary):

    The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

  1. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of animals):

    To give birth to.

  1. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A moment, time, occasion.

  2. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A period of time; a while.

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