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hit | pitch |

As nouns the difference between hit and pitch

is that hit is 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 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.

hit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

  • To strike.
  • #(lb) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • #*1922-1927 , (Frank Harris), (My Life and Loves)
  • #*:He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
  • #*
  • #*:BELLO: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
  • #*:BLOOM: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell
  • #*1934 , , The Slugger's Game
  • #*:I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
  • #(lb) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
  • #:
  • #*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • #*:If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
  • #*
  • #*:a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
  • #*1882 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
  • #*:Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
  • # To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
  • #:
  • # To attack, especially amphibiously.
  • #:
  • To briefly visit.
  • :
  • To encounter.
  • :
  • (lb) To attain, to achieve.
  • # To reach or achieve.
  • #:
  • #*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:
  • #*:And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
  • #(lb) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
  • #*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • #*:Millions miss for one that hits .
  • #To guess; to light upon or discover.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:Thou hast hit it.
  • (lb) To affect negatively.
  • :
  • To make a play.
  • # In blackjack, to deal a card to.
  • #:
  • # To come up to bat.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
  • To use; to connect to.
  • :
  • To have sex with.
  • :
  • To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana
  • :
  • Antonyms
    * (manage to touch in the right place) miss
    Derived terms
    (Terms derived from the verb "hit") * don't let the door hit you on the way out * flood-hit (adjective ) * hit a home run * hit a nerve * hit a six * hit a snag * hit above one's weight * hit and run * hit at * hit back * hit below one's weight * hit for six * hit home * hit it an quit it * hit it big * hit it off * hitman * hit on * hit one out of the ballpark * hit one's stride * hit out * hit paydirt * hit the ball twice * hit the books * hit the bottle * hit the bricks * hit the ceiling * hit the deck * hit the dirt * hit the gas * hit the ground running * hit the hay * hit the head * hit the headlines * hit the jackpot * hit the nail on the head * hit the net * hit the pan * hit the pavement * hit the road * hit rock bottom * hit the rock * hit the rocks * hit the roof * hit the sack * hit the silk * hit the skids * hit the spot * hit up * hit upon * hit wicket * hittable * hitter * hitting * not know what hit one * pinch-hit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
  • * Dryden
  • So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, / And, at each hit , with wonder seems amazed.
    The hit was very slight.
  • A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=February 9 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Review: Chico & Rita citation , page= , passage=Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met. }}
  • An attack on a location, person or people.
  • # In the game of , a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
  • (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
  • (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  • My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
  • An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  • (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
  • The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
  • (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • Where am I going to get my next hit ?
  • A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  • (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
  • a happy hit
  • A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • Antonyms
    * (a punch) miss * (success) flop, turkey
    Derived terms
    * banjo hit * base hit * cult hit * direct hit * hit counter * hit list * hit parade * hit point * hit squad * hit test * infield hit * king hit * nervous hit * no hit * one-hit wonder * pinch hit * smash hit * straight hit * take a hit

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l). Note 'it.

    Pronoun

  • (dialectal) .
  • * 1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
  • But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
  • * 1998 , Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
  • Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit' slide down the hill ' hits own way.
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    pitch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch pek, German Pech.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand.
  • A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • They put pitch''' on the mast to protect it.'' ''The barrel was sealed with '''pitch .
    It was pitch black because there was no moon.
  • (geology) pitchstone
  • Derived terms
    * pitch-black, pitchblack * pitchblende

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cover or smear with pitch.
  • To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
  • * Addison
  • Soon he found / The welkin pitched with sullen cloud.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) picchen, . More at pick.

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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.
  • A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
  • 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:
  • But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
  • * (John Milton)
  • Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down / Into this deep.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
  • * Addison
  • He lived when learning was at its highest pitch .
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.}}
  • (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:
  • Alba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame; that great Alexander a little man of stature, Augustus Cæsar of the same pitch  […].
    (Hudibras)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • (senseid)To throw.
  • He pitched the horseshoe.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward home plate.
  • The hurler pitched a curveball.
    He pitched high and inside.
  • (baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • Bob pitches today.
  • To throw away; discard.
  • He pitched the candy wrapper.
  • To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
  • To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • At which level should I pitch my presentation?
  • To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • Pitch the tent over there.
  • To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxxi. 25
  • Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.
  • (ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
  • The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
    The airplane pitched .
  • (golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
  • (cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
  • The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
  • (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  • To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  • * Mortimer
  • the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch
  • To fix one's choice; with on'' or ''upon .
  • * Tillotson
  • Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
  • To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  • to pitch from a precipice
    The vessel pitches in a heavy sea.
    The field pitches toward the east.
  • To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
  • (Knight)
  • To set or fix, as a price or value.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To discard a card for some gain.
  • Etymology 3

    Unknown

    Noun

    (es)
  • (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
  • (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
  • Bob, our pitch , let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • To fix or set the tone of.
  • to pitch a tune

    References

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