Skip vs Pitch - What's the difference?
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To move by hopping on alternate feet.
To leap about lightly.
* Alexander Pope
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
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To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
* Bishop Burnet
To place an item in a skip.
(informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
(informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
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To leap lightly over.
To jump rope.
A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
* 2012 , Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)
(Australia, New Zealand, British) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents; called a dumpster in North America (where "skip" is completely unknown and incomprehensible). See also skep.
(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
A beehive.
Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
* 2001 , ), Effie: Just Quietly'' (TV series), Episode: ''Nearest and Dearest ,
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.
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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.
Skip is a related term of pitch.
In lang=en terms the difference between skip and pitch
is that skip is to disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage) while pitch is to fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.In music|lang=en terms the difference between skip and pitch
is that skip is (music) a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once while pitch is (music) in an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.In mining|lang=en terms the difference between skip and pitch
is that skip is (mining) a transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock while pitch is (mining) the limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.As verbs the difference between skip and pitch
is that skip is to move by hopping on alternate feet while 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.As nouns the difference between skip and pitch
is that skip is a leaping, jumping or skipping movement or skip can be (australia|new zealand|british) a large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents; called a dumpster in north america (where "skip" is completely unknown and incomprehensible) see also skep or skip can be short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority or skip can be (australia|slang) an australian of anglo-celtic descent 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.skip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), of (etyl) origin, ultimately from (etyl) .Verb
(skipp)- She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
- So she drew her mother away skipping , dancing, and frisking fantastically.
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- The rock will skip across the pond.
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- I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
- My heart will skip a beat.
- I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
- They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.
- Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
- I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
- She really want to ''skip town
- Get back off me, beast off me
- Get back you flea infested mongrel
- to skip the rope
- The girls were skipping in the playground.
Synonyms
* (sense) (US) play hookieNoun
(en noun)- (Busby)
- Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips .
Derived terms
* skipping ropeEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (open-topped rubbish bin) dumpsterEtymology 3
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
A reference to the television series ; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them.Australian National Dictionary Centre » Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » S
Alternative forms
* skippyNoun
(en noun)- Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?
- Barber: She is Australian.
- Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip . You little radical you.
See also
* limey * wogReferences
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