Heave vs. Pitch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Heave and Pitch
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Heave
To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force
Heaved the box of books onto the table.
Pitch
The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone
Her voice rose steadily in pitch
Heave
To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl
Heave the shot.
Heaved a brick through the window.
Pitch
The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.
Heave
To throw or toss
Heaved his backpack into the corner.
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Pitch
A level of the intensity of something, especially a high level
The media furore reached such a pitch that the company withdrew the product
Heave
To give out or utter with effort or pain
Heaved a sigh.
Heaved a groan.
Pitch
An area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game
A football pitch
Heave
To vomit (something).
Pitch
A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.
Heave
To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable
Hove the anchor up and set sail.
Pitch
A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something
He put over a very strong sales pitch
Heave
To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling
Hove the ship astern.
Pitch
A place where a street vendor or performer stations themselves or sets up a stall
The traders had already reserved their pitches
Heave
To make rise or swell
The wind heaving huge waves.
An exhausted dog heaving its chest.
Pitch
A swaying or oscillation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle around a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of motion
The pitch and roll of the ship
Heave
(Geology) To displace or move (a vein, lode, or stratum, for example).
Pitch
The distance between successive corresponding points or lines, for example between the teeth of a cogwheel.
Heave
To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge
The sidewalk froze and heaved.
Pitch
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.
Heave
To rise and fall in turn, as waves.
Pitch
Set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch
You've pitched the melody very high
Heave
To gag or vomit.
Pitch
Throw roughly or casually
He crumpled the page up and pitched it into the fireplace
Heave
To pant; gasp
Heave for air.
Pitch
Throw (the ball) for the batter to try to hit.
Heave
To move in a certain direction or to a specified position
The frigate hove alongside.
Pitch
Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business
I've been pitching for this account for over a month
Heave
To pull at or haul a rope or cable
The brig is heaving around on the anchor.
Pitch
Set up and fix in position
We pitched camp for the night
Heave
To push at a capstan bar or lever.
Pitch
(of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down
The little steamer pressed on, pitching gently
Heave
The act or effort of raising or lifting something
With a great heave hauled the fish onto the deck.
Pitch
Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge
The roof was pitched at an angle of 75 degrees
Heave
An act of hurling; a throw, especially when considered in terms of distance
A heave of 63 feet.
Pitch
Pave (a road) with stones
Another sort of stone is used for pitching streets
Heave
A horizontal dislocation, as of a rock stratum, at a fault.
Pitch
(in brewing) add yeast to (wort) to induce fermentation.
Heave
An upward movement of a surface, especially when caused by swelling and expansion of clay, removal of overburden, or freezing of subsurface water.
Pitch
Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.
Heave
An upward movement, especially of a ship or aircraft.
Pitch
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.
Heave
The act or an instance of gagging or vomiting.
Pitch
Any of various natural bitumens, such as mineral pitch or asphalt.
Heave
Heaves (used with a sing. or pl. verb) See recurrent airway obstruction.
Pitch
A resin derived from the sap of various coniferous trees, as the pines.
Heave
(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.
Pitch
The act or an instance of pitching.
Heave
(transitive) To throw, cast.
They heaved rocks into the pond.
The cap'n hove the body overboard.
Pitch
A throw of the ball by the pitcher to the batter.
Heave
(intransitive) To rise and fall.
Her chest heaved with emotion.
Pitch
A ball so thrown
Hit the pitch into left field.
Heave
(transitive) To utter with effort.
She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
Pitch
(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.
Heave
To pull up with a rope or cable.
Heave up the anchor there, boys!
Pitch
(Nautical) The alternate dip and rise of a vessel's bow and stern.
Heave
To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
Pitch
The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.
Heave
(intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
Pitch
A steep slope.
Heave
To displace (a vein, stratum).
Pitch
The degree of such a slope.
Heave
To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
The wind heaved the waves.
Pitch
(Sports) A single interval between ledges or anchors used as belaying points in mountaineering
A climb of six pitches.
Heave
To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
To heave the ship ahead
Pitch
The angle of a roof.
Heave
(intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
Pitch
The highest point of a structure
The pitch of an arch.
Heave
(intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
Pitch
A level or degree, as of intensity
Worked at a feverish pitch.
Heave
To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
Pitch
(Acoustics) The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
Heave
An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
Pitch
(Music) The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
Heave
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
Pitch
(Music) Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
Heave
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
Pitch
The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
Heave
(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
Pitch
The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
Heave
An effort to vomit; retching.
Pitch
The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
Heave
Broken wind in horses.
Pitch
The distance that a propeller would travel in an ideal medium during one complete revolution, measured parallel to the shaft of the propeller.
Heave
(cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
Pitch
A line of talk designed to persuade
"[his] pious pitch for ... austerity" (Boston Globe).
Heave
To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; - often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.
Here a little child I stand,Heaving up my either hand.
Pitch
An advertisement.
Heave
To throw; to cast; - obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
Pitch
Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.
Heave
To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; - mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
Pitch
(Games) See seven-up.
Heave
To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
Pitch
(Printing) The density of characters in a printed line, usually expressed as characters per inch.
Heave
To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
The glittering, finny swarmsThat heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.
Pitch
To smear or cover with pitch.
Heave
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
And the huge columns heave into the sky.
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.
Pitch
To throw, usually with careful aim.
Heave
To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
The heaving plain of ocean.
Pitch
To discard by throwing
Pitched my worn-out sneakers.
Heave
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.
Pitch
To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.
Heave
To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
Pitch
To play (a game or part of a game) as pitcher.
Heave
An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
After many strains and heavesHe got up to his saddle eaves.
Pitch
To assign as pitcher
The manager decided to pitch a left-hander.
Heave
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.
There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves,You must translate.
None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them.
Pitch
To erect or establish; set up
Pitched a tent.
Pitch camp.
Heave
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
Pitch
To set firmly; implant; embed
Pitched stakes in the ground.
Heave
An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling);
The heaving of waves on a rough sea
Pitch
To set at a specified downward slant
Pitched the roof at a steep angle.
Heave
(geology) a horizontal dislocation
Pitch
To set at a particular level, degree, or quality
Pitched her expectations too high.
Heave
The act of lifting something with great effort
Pitch
(Music) To set the pitch or key of.
Heave
An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting;
A bad case of the heaves
Pitch
To adapt so as to be applicable; direct
Pitched his speech to the teenagers in the audience.
Heave
The act of raising something;
He responded with a lift of his eyebrow
Fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up
Pitch
(Informal) To attempt to promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner
"showed up on local TV to pitch their views" (Business Week).
Heave
Throwing something heavy (with great effort);
He gave it a mighty heave
He was not good at heaving passes
Pitch
(Sports) To hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
Heave
Utter a sound, as with obvious effort;
She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do
Pitch
To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
Heave
Throw with great effort
Pitch
To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).
Heave
Rise and move, as in waves or billows;
The army surged forward
Pitch
To throw or toss something, such as a ball, horseshoe, or bale.
Heave
Lift or elevate
Pitch
(Baseball) To play in the position of pitcher.
Heave
Nautical: to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position;
The vessel hove into sight
Pitch
To plunge headlong
He pitched over the railing.
Heave
Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily
Pitch
To stumble around; lurch.
Heave
Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat;
The highway buckled during the heatwave
Pitch
To buck, as a horse.
Heave
Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
Pitch
(Nautical) To dip bow and stern alternately.
Pitch
To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
To slope downward
The hill pitches steeply.
Pitch
To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.
Pitch
(Sports) To hit a golf ball in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
Pitch
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
(geology) Pitchstone.
Pitch
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
A good pitch in quoits
Pitch
(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.
Pitch
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.
The teams met on the pitch.
Pitch
(rare) The field of battle.
Pitch
An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.
Pitch
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 pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
Pitch
The angle at which an object sits.
The pitch of the roof or haystack
Pitch
The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
Pitch
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.
The pitch of an aircraft
Pitch
(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.
Pitch
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
Pitch
(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
Pitch
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
Pitch
A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
Pitch
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
Pitch
The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
Pitch
Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
Pitch
The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
Pitch
A person's or animal's height.
Pitch
Prominence; importance.
Pitch
(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
Pitch
(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
Pitch
(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitch
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitch
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
A steep pitch in the road
The pitch of a roof
Pitch
(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitch
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
Pitch
(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.
Are we in baroque pitch for this one?
Pitch
(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.
Pitch
To cover or smear with pitch.
Pitch
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Pitch
(transitive) To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
Pitch
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
The hurler pitched a curveball.
He pitched high and inside.
Pitch
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.
Pitch
(transitive) To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.
Pitch
(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
Pitch
(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
Pitch
(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.
Pitch
(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitch
To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
The airplane pitched.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
Pitch
To settle and build up, without melting.
Pitch
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Pitch
(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
Pitch
(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
To pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.
Pitch
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
Pitch
To set or fix.
Pitch
To discard for some gain.
Pitch
To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
Pitch
(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
Pitch
(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
Pitch
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.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Pitch
See Pitchstone.
Pitch
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
Pitch
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitch
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, downInto this deep.
Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
To lowest pitch of abject fortune.
He lived when learning was at its highest pitch.
The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends.
Pitch
Height; stature.
Pitch
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitch
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.
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.
Pitch
To cover over or smear with pitch.
Pitch
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
The welkin pitched with sullen could.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
Pitch
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
Pitch
To set or fix, as a price or value.
Pitch
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitch
To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch.
Pitch
To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
Pitch
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.
Pitch
The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
Pitch
(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Pitch
A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);
He was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors
Pitch
Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
Pitch
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;
The roof had a steep pitch
Pitch
Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Pitch
A high approach shot in golf
Pitch
An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
Pitch
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
The pitching and tossing was quite exciting
Pitch
The action or manner of throwing something;
His pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor
Pitch
Throw or toss with a light motion;
Flip me the beachball
Toss me newspaper
Pitch
Move abruptly;
The ship suddenly lurched to the left
Pitch
Fall or plunge forward;
She pitched over the railing of the balcony
Pitch
Set to a certain pitch;
He pitched his voice very low
Pitch
Sell or offer for sale from place to place
Pitch
Be at an angle;
The terrain sloped down
Pitch
Heel over;
The tower is tilting
The ceiling is slanting
Pitch
Erect and fasten;
Pitch a tent
Pitch
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
The pitcher delivered the ball
Pitch
Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
Pitch
Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
Pitch
Set the level or character of;
She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience
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