Field vs. Pitch — What's the Difference?

A broad, level, open expanse of land.

The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone

A meadow

The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.

A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop

A level of the intensity of something, especially a high level

A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource

An area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game

A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.

A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.

A battleground.

A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something

(Archaic) A battle.

A place where a street vendor or performer stations themselves or sets up a stall

The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers

A swaying or oscillation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle around a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of motion

A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin

The distance between successive corresponding points or lines, for example between the teeth of a cogwheel.

(Heraldry) The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.

A sticky resinous black or dark brown substance that is semi-liquid when hot and hardens when cold, obtained by distilling tar or turpentine and used for waterproofing.

An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory

Set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch

An area or region where business activities are conducted

Throw roughly or casually

An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.

Throw (the ball) for the batter to try to hit.

In baseball, the positions on defense or the ability to play defense

Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business

In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield

Set up and fix in position

A range, area, or subject of human activity, interest, or knowledge

(of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down

The contestants or participants in a competition or athletic event, especially those other than the favorite or winner.

Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge

The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.

Pave (a road) with stones

The people running in an election for a political office

(in brewing) add yeast to (wort) to induce fermentation.

(Mathematics) A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity form a group under multiplication.

Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.

(Physics) A physical quantity in a region of space, such as gravitational force or fluid pressure, having a distinct value (scalar, vector, or tensor) at each point.

Any of various thick, dark, sticky substances obtained from the distillation residue of coal tar, wood tar, or petroleum and used for waterproofing, roofing, caulking, and paving.

The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument; field of view.

Any of various natural bitumens, such as mineral pitch or asphalt.

An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.

A resin derived from the sap of various coniferous trees, as the pines.

A space, as on an online form or request for information, that accepts the input of text

The act or an instance of pitching.

Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.

A throw of the ball by the pitcher to the batter.

Made, used, or carried on in the field

A ball so thrown

Working, operating, or active in the field

(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.

(Sports) To catch or pick up (a ball) and often make a throw to another player, especially in baseball.

(Nautical) The alternate dip and rise of a vessel's bow and stern.

To respond to or deal with

The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.

(Sports) To place in the playing area

A steep slope.

To nominate in an election

The degree of such a slope.

To put into action; deploy

(Sports) A single interval between ledges or anchors used as belaying points in mountaineering

To enter (data) into a field.

The angle of a roof.

To play as a fielder

The highest point of a structure

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.

A level or degree, as of intensity

The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

(Acoustics) The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.

A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

(Music) The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

(Music) Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.

An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.

The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.

An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

The distance that a propeller would travel in an ideal medium during one complete revolution, measured parallel to the shaft of the propeller.

A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.

A line of talk designed to persuade

A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.

An advertisement.

(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

(Games) See seven-up.

(physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.

(Printing) The density of characters in a printed line, usually expressed as characters per inch.

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

To smear or cover with pitch.

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

To throw, usually with careful aim.

Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal

To discard by throwing

To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.

To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

To play (a game or part of a game) as pitcher.

To place a team, its players, etc. in a game.

To assign as pitcher

(transitive) To answer; to address.

To erect or establish; set up

(transitive) To defeat.

To set firmly; implant; embed

(transitive) To execute research (in the field).

To set at a specified downward slant

To deploy in the field.

To set at a particular level, degree, or quality

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

(Music) To set the pitch or key of.

A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.

To adapt so as to be applicable; direct

A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.

(Informal) To attempt to promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner

An open space; an extent; an expanse.

(Sports) To hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.

The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).

To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.

An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.

To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).

A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

To throw or toss something, such as a ball, horseshoe, or bale.

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.

(Baseball) To play in the position of pitcher.

To take the field.

To plunge headlong

To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

To stumble around; lurch.

To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

To buck, as a horse.

A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;

(Nautical) To dip bow and stern alternately.

A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;

To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.

Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected;

To oscillate about a lateral axis that is both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and horizontal to the earth. Used of a missile or spacecraft.

A branch of knowledge;

To slope downward

The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.

A particular kind of commercial enterprise;

(Sports) To hit a golf ball in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.

A particular environment or walk of life;

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

A piece of land prepared for playing a game;

A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

Extensive tract of level open land;

(geology) Pitchstone.

(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1;

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.

A region in which active military operations are in progress;

(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.

All of the horses in a particular horse race

The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. cricket pitch.}} Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.

All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

(rare) The field of battle.

A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;

An effort to sell or promote something.

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.

The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

The angle at which an object sits.

A place where planes take off and land

The rotation angle about the transverse axis.

Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.

Play as a fielder

(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.

Answer adequately or successfully;

An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.

Select (a team or individual player) for a game;

(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.

An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.

A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.

A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.

The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.

Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.

The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.

A person's or animal's height.

Prominence; importance.

(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.

(cricket) 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.

The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

(music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.

(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

To cover or smear with pitch.

To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

(transitive) To throw.

To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

(transitive) To throw away; discard.

(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.

(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.

(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).

(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.

To bounce on the playing surface.

To settle and build up, without melting.

To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.

(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.

To set or fix.

To discard for some gain.

To attack, or position or assemble for attack.

(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.

(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

See Pitchstone.

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

Height; stature.

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; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.

The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.

To cover over or smear with pitch.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

To set or fix, as a price or value.

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);

Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

A high approach shot in golf

An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);

The action or manner of throwing something;

Throw or toss with a light motion;

Move abruptly;

Fall or plunge forward;

Set to a certain pitch;

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

Be at an angle;

Heel over;

Erect and fasten;

Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;

Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

Set the level or character of;