Rate vs Pitch - What's the difference?

In nautical terms the difference between rate and pitch

is that rate is a class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank 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 rate and pitch

is that rate is to berate, scold while pitch is : The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
In intransitive terms the difference between rate and pitch
is that rate is to have value or standing while pitch is : The airplane pitched.

rate
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl), from . (wikipedia rate)
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) The estimated worth of something; value.

* 1599 , William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , V.3:

There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.

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Speed.

* Clarendon

Many of the horse could not march at that rate , nor come up soon enough.

The relative speed of change or progress.

The price of (an individual) thing; cost.

A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.

A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.

Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.

(nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.

(obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.

* Spenser

The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.

(obsolete) Order; arrangement.

* Spenser

Thus sat they all around in seemly rate .

(obsolete) Ratification; approval.

(Chapman)

(horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.

daily rate'''; hourly '''rate ; etc.

Derived terms
* at any rate * exchange rate * flat rate * interest rate * mortality rate * failure rate * rate limiting
Verb
(rat)
To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.

She is rated fourth in the country.

To evaluate or estimate the value of.

They rate his talents highly.

* South

To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.

To consider or regard.

He rated this book brilliant.

To deserve; to be worth.

The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:

Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.

To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.

The transformer is rated at 10 watts.

(transitive, chiefly, British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.

(informal) To like; to think highly of.

The customers don't rate the new burgers.

To have position (in a certain class).

She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.

He rates as the best cyclist in the country.

To have value or standing.

This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.

To ratify.

* Chapman

to rate the truce

To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.

Synonyms
* (have position in a certain class) rank
Derived terms
* rating
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Verb
(rat)
To berate, scold.

* Shakespeare

Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!

* Barrow

Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:

Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.

* , I.56:

Andronicus'' the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against ''Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river.

* 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:

He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veila man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch.XV, ''Practical — Devotional

The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to . The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that (Elmset) was the place meant.

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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 .

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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:

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.

Related terms
* absolute pitch * perfect pitch * pitch-a-fit * pitch a tent * pitch and putt * pitch class * pitcher * pitchfork * pitch in * pitch-pipe * pitch up * pitch upon * relative pitch * sales pitch
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

Quotations
* (English Citations of "pitch")
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