Chuck vs Pitch - What's the difference?
chuck | pitch | Synonyms |
(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
* 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef ,
* 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
* 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry ,
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
* 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42,
* 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book ,
* 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary ,
* 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice ,
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
A clucking sound.
* 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis ,
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
* Shakespeare
A gentle touch or tap.
(informal) A casual throw.
(slang) An act of vomiting.
(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
To make a clucking sound.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
To touch or tap gently.
(informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(informal) To discard, to throw away.
(slang) To vomit.
(cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
* 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' ,
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.
Chuck is a synonym of pitch.
As nouns the difference between chuck and pitch
is that chuck is (countable) a chuck taylor shoe (usually referred to in plural form, chucks ) while pitch is a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap or pitch can be a throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand or pitch can be (music) the perceived frequency of a sound or note.As a proper noun chuck
is a diminutive of the male given name charles , of mostly american usage.As a verb pitch is
to cover or smear with pitch or pitch can be (senseid)to throw or pitch can be to produce a note of a given pitch.chuck
English
Etymology 1
Variant of chock.Noun
(en noun)page 141,
- Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
- Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
page 113,
- The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
page 88,
- I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
page 322,
- Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
page 181,
- A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
page 30,
- The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.Noun
(en noun)page 604,
- The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
- Are you all right, chuck ?
- Pray, chuck , come hither.
- She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
Verb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
- This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
- Let's chuck .
- (Marston)
Derived terms
* chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuckEtymology 3
From woodchuck.Alternative forms
* 'chuckNoun
(en noun)page 50,
- Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.
Etymology 4
Synonyms
* chuckstone, chuckiestone ----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