different between station vs pitch

English

Etymology

From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ste???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

station (plural stations)

1. A stopping place.
   1. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.

   2. A ground transportation depot.

   3. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
      • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

        " […] Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."
   4. (US) A gas station, service station.
      • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

        Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. A place where workers are stationed.
   1. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.

   2. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.

   3. A military base.

   4. A place used for broadcasting radio or television.

   5. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
      • 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,

        There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,

      • 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,

        Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.

      • 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654,

        The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.

3. (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
4. (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
5. (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addis & Arnold to this entry?)

6. Standing; rank; position.
   • And they in France of the best rank and station

7. A broadcasting entity.

8. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
9. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
10. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
11. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
12. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
13. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
14. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:

      […] the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time […]

15. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

Synonyms

• (broadcasting entity): (that broadcasts television) channel
• (ground transport depot): sta (abbreviation), stn (abbreviation)
• (military base): base, military base
• (large sheep or cattle farm): farm, ranch

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: estasyon
• ? Hindi: ?????? (s?e?an)
• ? Irish: stáisiún
• ? Malay: stesen
• ? Punjabi: ??????/?????? (sa???an)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
• ? Urdu: ?????? (s?e?an)

Translations

References

• “station” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. (Newfoundland station)

Verb

station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed) (transitive)

1. (usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.

   The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

   I was stationed on the pier.

   • The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone

2. To put in place to perform military duty.

   They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.

   I was stationed at Fort Richie.

Translations

Anagrams

• sat on it

Danish

Etymology

From Latin stati? (“position, station”), derived from the verb stare (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sd?a??o?n]

Noun

station c (singular definite stationen, plural indefinite stationer)

1. station (major stopping place for busses or trains)
2. station (a building which is the center for an institution, in particular a police station)
3. station (a company broadcasting radio or television)

Inflection

Derived terms

• brandstation
• endestation
• flyvestation
• mellemstation
• politistation
• pumpestation
• radiostation
• rutebilstation
• stationsby
• togstation

References

• “station” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French station.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /sta????n/
• Hyphenation: sta?ti?on
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

station n (plural stations, diminutive stationnetje n)

1. station (place for vehicles to stop)

   Synonym: statie

Derived terms

• benzinestation
• eindstation
• metrostation
• NS-station
• onderzoeksstation
• pompstation
• ruimtestation
• stationsgebouw
• stationschef
• tramstation
• treinstation
• tussenstation
• wegwaaistation
• weerstation

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: stasiun
• ? Javanese: setasiyun

See also

• depot

French

Etymology

From Old French estation, estacion, borrowed from Latin st?ti?, st?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.sj??/

Noun

station f (plural stations)

1. station

Derived terms

Further reading

• “station” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tâtions

Interlingua

Noun

station (plural stationes)

1. station (place where workers are stationed)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English st?cioun, from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ste??n]

Noun

station (plural stations)

1. station

References

• “station” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “station” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[4], 2016.
• “station” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, ?ISBN.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta??u?n/

Noun

station c

1. station
   1. A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
   2. A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
   3. Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.

Declension

Related terms

• stationär

Derived terms

(facility used for broadcasting):

(facility used by a department or collecting of data):

(place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.):

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