Difference between dig and pitcher

Definitions

verb

1. remove the inner part or the core of
2. remove, harvest, or recover by digging
3. create by digging
4. work hard
5. thrust down or into

noun

1. a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
2. the site of an archeological exploration
3. the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
4. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
5. the act of digging

Examples

When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.

McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.

Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.

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Definitions

noun

1. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
2. the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
3. (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
4. (baseball) the person who does the pitching
5. the quantity contained in a pitcher

Examples

Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?

Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.

When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher.

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