Bank vs. Pitch — What's the Difference?

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.

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

A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds; a heap

The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.

A steep natural incline.

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

An artificial embankment.

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

The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel.

A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.

A large elevated area of a sea floor.

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

(Games) The cushion of a billiard or pool table.

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

The lateral inward tilting, as of a motor vehicle or an aircraft, in turning or negotiating a curve.

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

A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged.

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

The offices or building in which such an establishment is located.

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.

The funds of a gambling establishment.

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

The funds held by a dealer or banker in certain games, especially gambling games.

Throw roughly or casually

The reserve pieces, cards, chips, or play money in some games, such as poker, from which the players may draw.

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

A supply or stock for future or emergency use

Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business

(Medicine) A supply of human fluids or tissues, such as blood, sperm, or skin, that is stored in a facility for future use.

Set up and fix in position

A place of safekeeping or storage

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

A set of elevators.

Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge

A row of keys on a keyboard.

Pave (a road) with stones

A bench for rowers in a galley.

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

A row of oars in a galley.

Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.

(Printing) The lines of type under a headline.

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.

To border or protect with a ridge or embankment.

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

To pile up; amass

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

To cover (a fire), as with ashes or fresh fuel, to ensure continued low burning.

The act or an instance of pitching.

To construct with a slope rising to the outside edge

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

To tilt (an aircraft) laterally and inwardly in flight.

A ball so thrown

To tilt (a motor vehicle) laterally and inwardly when negotiating a curve.

(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.

(Games) To strike (a billiard ball) so that it rebounds from the cushion of the table.

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

(Sports) To play (a ball or puck) in such a way as to make it glance off a surface, such as a backboard or wall.

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

To rise in or take the form of a bank.

A steep slope.

To tilt an aircraft or a motor vehicle laterally when turning.

The degree of such a slope.

To deposit in a bank.

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

To store for future use.

The angle of a roof.

To transact business with a bank or maintain a bank account.

The highest point of a structure

To operate a bank.

A level or degree, as of intensity

To arrange or set up in a row

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

(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

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

(countable) A branch office of such an institution.

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

(countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

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

(countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

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

The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.

Money; profit.

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

(countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

A line of talk designed to persuade

A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

An advertisement.

(countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.

(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

(Games) See seven-up.

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

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

(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

To smear or cover with pitch.

(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

To throw, usually with careful aim.

(rail) An incline, a hill.

To discard by throwing

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

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

(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

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

(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

To assign as pitcher

(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

To erect or establish; set up

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

To set firmly; implant; embed

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

To set at a specified downward slant

(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.

To set at a particular level, degree, or quality

(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

(Music) To set the pitch or key of.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

To adapt so as to be applicable; direct

A bench or seat for judges in court.

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

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc

(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 kind of table used by printers.

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

(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

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

(uncountable) slang for money

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

(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

(Baseball) To play in the position of pitcher.

(transitive) To put into a bank.

To plunge headlong

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

To stumble around; lurch.

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

To buck, as a horse.

(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

(Nautical) To dip bow and stern alternately.

(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

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

(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

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.

(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

To slope downward

To pass by the banks of.

To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.

To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

(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 arrange or order in a row.

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.

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

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

(geology) Pitchstone.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

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

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

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 lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45° is easy; a bank of 90° is dangerous.

(rare) The field of battle.

A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.

An effort to sell or promote something.

The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.

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 bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

The angle at which an object sits.

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

The rotation angle about the transverse axis.

A sort of table used by printers.

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.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

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

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

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

The building or office used for banking purposes.

(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.

A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital.

An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.

In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines.

A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.

A place where something is stored and held available for future use;

The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.

To pass by the banks of.

A person's or animal's height.

To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves.

Prominence; importance.

To deposit in a bank.

(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.

To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

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

To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; - said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like.

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities;

The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.

Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water);

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

A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)

The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

A building in which commercial banking is transacted;

(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.

An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers;

(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.

A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home;

To cover or smear with pitch.

A long ridge or pile;

To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games;

(transitive) To throw.

A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning);

To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

Tip laterally;

(transitive) To throw away; discard.

Enclose with a bank;

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

Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank;

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

Act as the banker in a game or in gambling

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

Be in the banking business

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

Put into a bank account;

To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning;

To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.

Have confidence or faith in;

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;