Tilt vs Pitch - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between tilt and pitch

is that tilt is to cover with a tilt, or awning while pitch is : The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
In intransitive terms the difference between tilt and pitch
is that tilt is to be at an angle while pitch is : The airplane pitched.
In lang=en terms the difference between tilt and pitch
is that tilt is to play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck) while pitch is in an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

tilt
English
(wikipedia tilt)
Etymology 1
Old English tyltan'' "to be unsteady"; Middle English ''tilte . Cognate with Icelandic . The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with . The modern transitive meaning is from 1590, the intransitive use appears 1620.
Verb
(en verb)
To slope or incline (something); to slant

Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

(jousting ) To charge (at someone) with a lance

* William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet act III, scene I

He tilts / With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.

* Tennyson

But in this tournament can no man tilt .

To be at an angle

* Grew

The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.

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To point or thrust a weapon at.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 52-54

I say I quarrell’d with you;

We did not tilt each other, — that’s a blessing, —

Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head!

To point or thrust (a weapon).

* J. Philips

Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

(poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).

(photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.

Synonyms
* slope * incline * slant
Coordinate terms
* (photography) pan, cant
Noun
(en noun)
a slope or inclination (uncountable)

a jousting contest (countable)

A thrust, as with a lance.

(Addison)

(photography) the controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this

an attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office .

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tilt hammer

The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

Etymology 2
From (etyl) telt, from (etyl) ). More at (l).
Noun
(en noun)
A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.

Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

(Denham)

Verb
(en verb)
To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Derived terms
* at full tilt * atilt * on tilt
References
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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")
References
* * Notes: