Peach vs. Pitch — What's the Difference?

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned varieties), nectarines.

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

A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica) in the rose family, widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.

The soft juicy fruit of this tree, having yellow or white flesh, downy reddish-yellow skin, and a deeply ridged stone containing a single seed.

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

A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange.

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

(Informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.

To inform on someone; turn informer

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

To inform against

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

A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

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

The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

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

(color) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

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.

(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

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

(often in plural) buttock or bottom

Throw roughly or casually

Of or pertaining to the color peach.

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

Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business

To inform on someone; turn informer.

Set up and fix in position

To inform against.

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

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

Pave (a road) with stones

A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone. In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

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

The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.

Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.

The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.

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.

Cultivated in temperate regions

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

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

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

Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

The act or an instance of pitching.

A shade of pink tinged with yellow

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

Divulge confidential information or secrets;

A ball so thrown

(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.

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

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

A steep slope.

The degree of such a slope.

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

The angle of a roof.

The highest point of a structure

A level or degree, as of intensity

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

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

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

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

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

The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.

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

A line of talk designed to persuade

An advertisement.

Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.

(Games) See seven-up.

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

To smear or cover with pitch.

To throw, usually with careful aim.

To discard by throwing

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

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

To assign as pitcher

To erect or establish; set up

To set firmly; implant; embed

To set at a specified downward slant

To set at a particular level, degree, or quality

(Music) To set the pitch or key of.

To adapt so as to be applicable; direct

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

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

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

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

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

(Baseball) To play in the position of pitcher.

To plunge headlong

To stumble around; lurch.

To buck, as a horse.

(Nautical) To dip bow and stern alternately.

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

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.

To slope downward

To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.

(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 sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

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

(geology) Pitchstone.

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

(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.

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.

(rare) The field of battle.

An effort to sell or promote something.

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 angle at which an object sits.

The rotation angle about the transverse axis.

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.

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

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

(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;