Crossword clues for pivot
pivot
- Swing around
- Change direction sharply
- Turn on an axis
- Spin around
- Central position
- Whirl on one foot
- Turn on a point
- Turn about an axis
- Turn on the spot
- Turn on a shaft
- Turn on a dime
- Court maneuver
- Basketball move
- Basketball center, informally
- What to do at second to turn two
- Turning maneuver
- Turn like a Rocket
- Turn around a central point
- Toe, during a pirouette
- Second baseman's double play maneuver
- Scissors feature
- Rotation point
- Rotating point
- Revolving door feature
- Hoopster’s footwork
- Turning point?
- Come about
- Center's position
- Basketball position
- Move on a court or a diamond
- Court position
- Basketball maneuver
- Offensive basketball position
- Point of rotation
- Revolution in basketball?
- Abrupt realignment of policy priorities
- Turn on one foot, in basketball
- Cagey debater's tactic
- The person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
- Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- Central point on which things turn
- Pirouette, essentially
- Slue
- Court center, usually
- Turn in place
- Basketball player's maneuver
- Swivel around
- Turn, facing celebrity's back
- Turn on a spot
- Turn of aviator’s learner to turn 45 degrees
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pivot \Piv"ot\, n. [F.; prob. akin to It. piva pipe, F. pipe. See Pipe.]
A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
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(Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
Pivot bridge, a form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis.
Pivot gun, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction.
Pivot tooth (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.
Pivot \Piv"ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pivoted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pivoting.]
To place on a pivot.
--Clarke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from French pivot, from Old French pivot "hinge pin, pivot" (12c.), also "penis," of uncertain origin. Figurative sense of "central point" is recorded from 1813.
by 1841, from French pivoter and from pivot (n). Related: Pivoted; pivoting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. 2 Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. vb. (context intransitive English) To turn on an exact spot.
WordNet
v. turn on a pivot [syn: swivel]
Wikipedia
Pivot may refer to:
- Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system
- More generally, the center point of any rotational system
- Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body
- Pivot turn, a dance move
Pivot (2000) is an album by the American experimental pop music group Amoeba. The style of this album is similar to that of Amoeba’s previous album Watchful (1997) except with a somewhat more active and direct approach. The lyrics are also more literal and emotional than those of Watchful.
Pivot is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Participant Media. The channel, targeted at young adults between 18 and 34 years old, debuted on August 1, 2013. The channel will shut down in 2016 or 2017.
Pivot is a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998. The game was designed by André François. Pivot, along with Alpha Blitz, Go Wild!, and Twitch, were part of a move by Wizards of the Coast to diversify beyond their core Magic: The Gathering property. This game is no longer in print.
There are 108 cards in a Pivot deck:
80 Number cards (numbered 1 - 80)
28 Direction cards (11 Up, 11 Down, and 6 Pivot)
The object of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all their cards.
When playing, it is useful to have two play piles: one for Number cards, and the other for Direction cards. Play travels around in a circle depending on the direction indicated on the last played Direction card. The Direction cards also indicate which Number cards can be played. An Up Direction card indicates Number cards with a value higher than the last played Number card, while Down indicates lower valued Number cards. The Pivot Direction card can be played to change the direction of play. A player may play any one of these cards on their turn. If they cannot play a card, that player must draw one card from the draw pile.
For example, if the direction is Up and the last played Number card was 42, valid plays are any Number card higher than 42, a Down card, or a Pivot card (which would have the same effect as a Down card).
Usage examples of "pivot".
Fifty eggs well fried will yield about five ounces of this oil, which is acrid, and so enduringly liquid that watch-makers use it for lubricating the axles and pivots of their most delicate wheels.
British line had now pivoted round, until its position extended from the Hermanito to near Aldea Tejarda.
The image dulled to a searing ache, and Hishn pivoted, lunging back toward the boulder.
Reacher, who had pivoted and dropped into guard to face the second swine just before Van Duyn had fired, gazed from the dead quarry to its slayer in calm curiosity, head tilted inquisitively.
Pivoting on my left toe, I swung a terrific right to his jaw, and, like a felled ox, he dropped in his tracks.
I pivot on my left foot and kick his collapsing body toward the fumbler, but the fumbler skips back and keeps hold of his bow.
It blessed every nail and board from prow to stern, every grommet, every oar, every pivot, every fleck of paint, every inch of rope.
The entire ship was falling away beneath Karsa, beneath the platform itself, which slid wildly down the length of the gunnel before crunching against the foredeck railing, pivoting, then plunging for the waves below.
For in order to pivot with the greatest ease, the carriage had been previously run back on the Slide to the rear Hurter, so as to bring the weight of the gun as near as possible to the Rear pivot, the very best position being with the Trunnions of the Gun just forward of the Rear pivot.
The mare pivoted away, nearly colliding with Fleurette, but Killian was already reaching for her.
The men moved forward two by two, and Grandma Mazur went up on tiptoe, pivoting on her patentleather spikes to get a good look.
A whole new world seemed to open before him from then on, he was constantly finding things pierced and rotating on pivots.
At the 3-D Lunar map he took hold of the locating trailing-arm, linked the pivot in position, then swept out a route until the terminus of the arm touched the recessed locus where his technicians worked busily at the Omphalos -- worked, while waiting for parts which would never come.
Arranged to traverse on circles fitted with Bossed Sockets for pivoting, and with clevis-bolts and sockets for housing.
But it is not possible, in pivoting, to exert direct action for more than the eighth of a circle by one position of a tackle, and it is absolutely dangerous at sea to leave the Slide unconfined for an instant.