Pitch vs Zenith - What's the difference?
pitch | zenith | Synonyms |
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.
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* (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.
(astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
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* 1671–1693 : Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook ; printed in:
* 1895 , Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham ,
(astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
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* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
Highest point or state; peak.
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* Macaulay
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Pitch is a synonym of zenith.
As nouns the difference between pitch and zenith
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 zenith is zenith.As a verb 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.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
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English
(wikipedia zenith)Noun
(en noun)- The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ?o that in two dayes ?aile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point...
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- In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith .
- ...in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith , the violence of the heat was too great to stir out...
- As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
- I find my zenith doth depend upon / A most auspicious star.
- It was during those civil troubles this aspiring family reached the zenith .
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