Pitch vs Warp - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) A throw; a cast.
(dialectal) A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish.
(dialectal) The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid, calf, or foal.
The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
(uncountable) The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
(weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
(nautical) A line or cable used in warping a ship.
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
(dialectal) To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
(dialectal) To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.
(transitive, dialectal, of the wind or sea) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.
(ambitransitive, dialectal, of a door) To throw open; open wide.
To twist or turn something out of shape.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
* , chapter=16
, title= To deflect something from a true or proper course.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Southey
To become twisted out of shape.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Moxon
To go astray or be deflected from a correct course
* (William Shakespeare)
To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
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, title= To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
(obsolete, rare, poetic) To weave, hence (figuratively) to fabricate; plot.
* Sternhold
(nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; especially to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(nautical) (for a ship) To be moved by warping.
To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
* (John Milton)
(agriculture) To let the tide or other water in upon (low-lying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
(ropemaking) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
To travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between pitch and warp
is that pitch is (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 while warp is (nautical) (for a ship) to be moved by warping.In lang=en terms the difference between pitch and warp
is that pitch is to fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp while warp is to travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.As nouns the difference between pitch and warp
is that 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 while warp is (obsolete) a throw; a cast.As verbs the difference between pitch and warp
is that 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 while warp is (transitive|obsolete|outside|dialects) to throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.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
Quotations
* (English Citations of "pitch")References
* * Notes:warp
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) warp, werp, from (etyl) wearp, . Cognate with (etyl) warp, (etyl) warp, (etyl) Warf, (etyl) varp, (etyl) varp.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) werpen, weorpen, worpen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The planks looked warped .
- Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
- I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
- We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
- One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp .
- They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping .
- There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp .
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- while doth he mischief warp
- (Nares)
- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.
- A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.