Pitch vs. Volume — What's the Difference?

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

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or 3D shape occupies or contains. Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre.

The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.

A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.

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

One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.

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

A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.

A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.

A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.

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

A roll of parchment; a scroll.

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

The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.

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

The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.

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

Amount; quantity:a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.

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.

OftenvolumesA large amount:volumes of praise.

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

The amplitude or loudness of a sound.

Throw roughly or casually

A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.

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

A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business

Strength of sound; loudness.

Set up and fix in position

The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

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

A bound book.

Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge

A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

Pave (a road) with stones

A great amount (of meaning) about something.

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

(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.

Quantity.

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.

A rounded mass or convolution.

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

(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

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

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

The act or an instance of pitching.

(bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

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

(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.

A ball so thrown

(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.

(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.

(intransitive) To swell.

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

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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

Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.

A steep slope.

Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

The degree of such a slope.

Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

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

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

The angle of a roof.

The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;

The highest point of a structure

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

A level or degree, as of intensity

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

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

A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications;

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

A relative amount;

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

The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);

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;