Quality vs Pitch - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between quality and pitch

is that quality is level of excellence while pitch is a sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

As an adjective quality

is being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

As a verb pitch is

to cover or smear with pitch.

quality

English

Noun

(uncountable) Level of excellence

This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality .

Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.

(countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.

One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.

While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.

Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.

(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)

A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality .

Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.

(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.

(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.

(emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.

To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

Synonyms

* See also

Coordinate terms

* (a property that differentiates) quiddity

Derived terms

(quality) * human quality * industrial quality * quality time * quality of life * the quality, the Quality * total quality management * qualitative

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

We only sell quality products.

That was a quality game by Jim Smith.

A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.

* Harriet (a Cambridge University student), quoted in John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education , Routledge (2003), ISBN 978-0-415-25722-0, page 114:

I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .

* 2004 , Vance M. Thompson, MD, in J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith (editors), LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls , SLACK Incorporated, ISBN 978-1-55642-622-3, page 187:

For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.

* 2008 , Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4165-5342-7, page 144:

A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.

Derived terms

* qualityness

External links

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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 .

, 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

Quotations

* (English Citations of "pitch")

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