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Pinching vs Pitching - What's the difference?

pinching | pitching |

As verbs the difference between pinching and pitching

is that pinching is present participle of lang=en while pitching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pinching and pitching

is that pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches while pitching is the act of throwing or casting.

As an adjective pinching

is that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

pinching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.

    pitching

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.

    See also

    * pitching a tent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of throwing or casting.
    • wild pitching in baseball
  • The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
    • (Mayhew)
  • (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
    • (Webster 1913)