different between skip vs pitch

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?p, IPA^(key): /sk?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjan?, *skupan? (“to scoff, mock”), perhaps related to *skeuban? (“to drive, push”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Middle Swedish skuppa (“to skip”).

Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

   She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
   • So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

   The rock will skip across the pond.
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

   I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

   My heart will skip a beat.

   I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following

6. To place an item in a skip.
7. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

   Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

8. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
   • 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?

     I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast

     She really want to skip town

     Get back off me, beast off me

     Get back you flea-infested mongrel

9. To leap lightly over.

   to skip the rope

10. To jump rope.

    The girls were skipping in the playground.

11. (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

Synonyms

• (informal, not to attend): (US) play hookie

Translations

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)

4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
   • 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)

     Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.

5. (radio) skywave propagation

Derived terms

• skipping rope

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”).

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
2. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
3. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
4. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
5. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
6. A beehive.

Synonyms

• (open-topped rubbish bin): dumpster (Canada, US)

Translations

Etymology 3

Late Middle English skillper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”), related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
2. (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
3. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
4. (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
5. (Scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Translations

Etymology 4

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).

Alternative forms

• skippy

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
   • 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,

     Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?

     Barber: She is Australian.

     Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.

Translations

See also

• limey
• wog

Etymology 5

17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (college slang) A college servant.

Related terms

• gyp (Cambridge University)
• scout (Oxford University)

References

Anagrams

• KPIs, kips

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch schip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?p/

Noun

skip (plural skepe, diminutive skippie or skepie)

1. ship

Derived terms

• oorlogskip
• seilskip
• stoomskip
• vliegdekskip
• vragskip

Descendants

• ? Northern Ndebele: isikepe
• ? Shona: chikepe
• ? Sotho: sekepe
• ? Tsonga: xikepe
• ? Xhosa: isikhephe
• ? Zulu: isikebhe

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• kips
• spik

Gothic

Romanization

skip

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sc??p]
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, nominative plural skip)

1. ship, boat

Declension

Synonyms

• (ship, boat): bátur m, gnoð f, kafs hestur m

Derived terms

• flaggskip
• geimskip

Anagrams

• spik

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?. Cognate with Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic ???????????????? (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa or skipene)

1. a ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

References

• “skip” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?. Akin to English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa)

1. a ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

For other terms please refer to skip (Bokmål) for the time being.

References

• “skip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skip?, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Gothic ???????????????? (skip).

Noun

skip n (genitive skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

• skipari

Descendants

References

• skip in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?, whence also Old English s?ip, Old Frisian skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip.

Noun

skip n

1. ship

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: schip, schep
  • German Low German: Schipp, Schepp

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian skip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?p/

Noun

skip n (plural skippen, diminutive skipke)

1. ship
2. shipload
3. nave (of a church)

Further reading

• “skip (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English pi?, from Latin pix. Cognate with Dutch pek, German Pech, and Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”).

Noun

pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)

1. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

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

3. (geology) Pitchstone.

Derived terms

• pitch-black
• pitchblende
• pitch-dark
• pitch darkness
• pitch-tar

Translations

Descendants

• ? Galician: piche
• ? Portuguese: piche

See also

• piceous

Verb

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)

1. To cover or smear with pitch.

   • “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”

2. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
   • 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas

     Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.

Etymology 2

From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), an assibilated variant of Middle English picken, pikken (“to pick, pierce”). More at pick.

Noun

pitch (plural pitches)

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

3. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.

4. (sports, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) 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.) Not used in America, where "field" is the preferred word.

5. An effort to sell or promote something.

6. 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.

   A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.

7. The angle at which an object sits.

8. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
   • September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2

     He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.

   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press (1973), section 11:

     But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity

   • 2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (page 190)

     In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]

9. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
   1. (nautical, aviation) 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.

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

10. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
11. (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
    • 1975, Tom A. Cullen, The Prostitutes' Padre (page 94)

      Another reason is that the prostitute who makes her pitch at Marble Arch stands a chance of being picked up by an out-of-town business man stopping at one of the hotels in the vicinity, and of being treated to a steak dinner […]

12. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
13. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
14. Prominence; importance.
15. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
    • 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering (page 84)

      You lead "through" instead — your companion leads a pitch, then you join him. But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.

16. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.

17. (now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height.
18. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
19. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
20. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.

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

Hyponyms

• football pitch

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)

2. (transitive) To throw.

4. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

5. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

6. (transitive) To throw away; discard.

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

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

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

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

    • Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.

11. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

12. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.

13. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.

14. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
15. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

    • the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch

16. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous

      Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
17. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.

18. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

19. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
20. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown. Perhaps related to the above sense of level or degree, or influenced by it.

Noun

pitch (plural pitches)

1. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

   The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

2. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)

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

   • […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

2. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, pages 196–197:

     His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.

Translations

References

• pitch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

Noun

pitch m (plural pitchs)

1. pitch (sales patter, inclination)

Italian

Noun

pitch m (plural pitch)

1. (cricket) cricket pitch