Cant vs Pitch - What's the difference?
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(countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
* 1836 , Three discourses preached before the Congregational Society in Watertown,
(countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
Shelta.
(uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
* 1749 , , Book IV ch iv
* 1759-1770 ,
(uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
(countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name of the bearer, canting arms.
(obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
* Jonathan Swift
To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
* Ben Jonson
* Bishop Sanderson
To speak in set phrases.
To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
(obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
(obsolete) corner, niche
* Ben Jonson
slope, the angle at which something is set.
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An outer or external angle.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
A movement or throw that overturns something.
* 1830 , The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3,
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give.
(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
(nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
To set (something) at an angle.
To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
To bevel an edge or corner.
To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
(British, dialect) lively, lusty.
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
(geology) pitchstone
To cover or smear with pitch.
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
* Addison
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
(senseid)(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
(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 .
An effort to sell or promote something.
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw, the turns of a screw thread, or letters in a monospace font.
The angle at which an object sits.
More specifically, the rotation angle about the transverse axis.
A level or degree.
(aviation) A measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down.
(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its athwartships axis, causing its bow and stern to go up and down. Compare with roll, yaw and heave.
The place where a busker performs.
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
* 1748 , (David Hume), (w) , Oxford University Press (1973), section 11:
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
* Addison
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(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
A person or animal's height.
*, II.3.2:
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
(engineering) The distance from centre to centre of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; called also circular pitch .
The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
The distance between the centres of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
(senseid)To throw.
(transitive, or, intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward home plate.
(baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
To throw away; discard.
To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
To assemble or erect (a tent).
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 25
(ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
(golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
(cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
(intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
* Mortimer
To fix one's choice; with on'' or ''upon .
* Tillotson
To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
To set or fix, as a price or value.
To discard a card for some gain.
(music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
To produce a note of a given pitch.
To fix or set the tone of.
In intransitive terms the difference between cant and pitch
is that cant is to preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner while pitch is : The airplane pitched.In nautical terms the difference between cant and pitch
is that cant is a piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads while pitch is the measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its athwartships axis, causing its bow and stern to go up and down. Compare with roll, yaw and heave.In transitive terms the difference between cant and pitch
is that cant is to divide or parcel out while pitch is : The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.As an adjective cant
is lively, lusty.cant
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , cognate with chant.Noun
(en-noun)- He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.
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- I am aware that the phrase free inquiry has become too much a cant phrase soiled by the handling of the ignorant and the reckless by those who fall into the mistake of supposing that religion has its root in the understanding and by those who can see just far enough to doubt and no further.
- People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant .
- He is too well grounded for all your philosophical cant to hurt.
- Of all the cants' which are canted in this canting world — though the '''cant''' of hypocrites may be the worst — the ' cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
- To sell their leases by cant .
Synonyms
* (private or secret language) argot, jargon, slang * (musical singing) chant, singsongVerb
(en verb)- The doctor here, / When he discourseth of dissection, / Of vena cava and of vena porta, / The meseraeum and the mesentericum, / What does he else but cant ?
- that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it
- the rankest rogue that ever canted
- (Jonathan Swift)
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant .
- Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.
- (Totten)
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- It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant , or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.
- to give a ball a cant
- (Knight)
- (Knight)
Verb
(en verb)- to cant''' a cask; to '''cant a ship
- to cant''' round a stick of timber; to '''cant a football
Etymology 3
Etymology 4
From (etyl), presumably from (etyl) *Alternative forms
* kantAdjective
(-)Anagrams
* ----pitch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch pek, German Pech.Noun
(es)- It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand.
- They put pitch''' on the mast to protect it.'' ''The barrel was sealed with '''pitch .
- It was pitch black because there was no moon.
Derived terms
* pitch-black, pitchblack * pitchblendeVerb
(es)- Soon he found / The welkin pitched with sullen cloud.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) picchen, . More at pick.Noun
(es)- A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
- But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
- Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down / Into this deep.
- Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
- He lived when learning was at its highest pitch .
- Alba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame; that great Alexander a little man of stature, Augustus Cæsar of the same pitch […].
- (Hudibras)
Verb
(es)- He pitched the horseshoe.
- The hurler pitched a curveball.
- He pitched high and inside.
- Bob pitches today.
- He pitched the candy wrapper.
- He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
- At which level should I pitch my presentation?
- Pitch the tent over there.
- Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.
- The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
- The airplane pitched .
- The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
- The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
- the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch
- Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
- to pitch from a precipice
- The vessel pitches in a heavy sea.
- The field pitches toward the east.
- (Knight)
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 3
UnknownNoun
(es)- The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
- Bob, our pitch , let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
Verb
(es)- to pitch a tune