Pivot is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PIVOT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to turn on a shaft or rod
• turn on or as if on a pivot
• provide (a mechanism) with a pivot; fix (a mechanism) on a pivot
• depend on
• To place on a pivot.
• turn on a pivot
• provide with or turn on a pivot
NOUN:
• the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.
• a person or thing that plays a central part in a situation or enterprise
• the person or position from which a body of troops takes its reference point when moving or changing course.
• a player in a central position in a team sport.
• a movement in which the player holding the ball may move in any direction with one foot, while keeping the other (the pivot foot) in contact with the floor.
• central shaft on which something turns
• 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.
• The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
• the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
• axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
• the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot

Words related to PIVOT

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Words that contain PIVOT

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How to use PIVOT in a sentence

• It is to be borne in mind that the definitions here given do not pivot on the specific illustrations proffered for their explanation.
• It was only after death that the broken body was placed on a wheel, which was turned round on a pivot.
• Round this last one, the whole ode seems to turn as on a pivot, and it alone had been sufficient to stamp Smollett a man of lofty poetic genius.
• We perceive how delicately our fortune is poised and balanced on the pivot of a single incident.
• Suddenly, close at hand, Chloe heard a quick, wicked spat, and the Indian reeled from the doorway, whirled as on a pivot, and crashed, face downward, across the table.
• I saw one of these stands, which turned on a pivot, in an old Catholic church in Yorkshire, England, where it remains to this day.
• The tin strip could be moved about the pivot by black threads fastened to its perforated ends.
• Yet all the time its real sense of pivot, which, be it noted, has been admirably trained by the Sol-fa treatment of the major scale, is in favour of C and F respectively.
• Here the guiding theme is the pivot upon which the entire work turns.
• A magnetic needle held under a current-bearing wire turns on its pivot and finally comes to rest at an angle with the current.
• For Confucianism, as for Europe, man is the pivot and centre of things, but less so for Taoism and Buddhism.
• She slowly swung her body on a pivot, flashing the light into each shadow and over every inch of floor, turning always in a circle toward the couch.
• If made to turn in a small circle, they do so by using the hind feet as a pivot, bringing the front parts around by placing as little weight on them as possible.
• The golden angel on the summit is the old one restored, with the novelty, to her, as to us, of being set on a pivot to act as a vane.
• At the moment she looked the man had swung a rope, and she saw the loop fall true over the head of a cow the man had selected, saw the pony pivot and drag the cow prone.
• A well-delivered shrapnel-shell from a heavy gun must sweep away the crew of a pivot or other gun, on a spar-deck not protected by bulwarks.
• The Twenty-sixth Division, which, with a French division, was under command of our First Corps, acted as a pivot of the movement toward Soissons.
• This dogma, next to the Church, has become a real world power, the pivot in the history of the Christian religion.
• A circular revolving platform rests on the pivot and rollers.
• The reins went loose, their heads went forward and, as if moving on a pivot, the three leaped as one horse.
• I then took out the head of the nail, and the bar turning round the remaining nail, as on a pivot, left a sufficient space for my body to pass between it and the window-frame.
• He wheeled as if on a pivot, killed the left bird and the right one.
• Unity, the pivot, source, center, the august Idea of Pythagoras, 626-u.
• On the top of the tower was a bronze figure of a Moorish horseman, fixed on a pivot, with elevated lance.
• His head turned on a pivot, sweeping the horizon from St.
• The frame was to rest on a pivot supported with strong timbers, so that it could turn with all the machinery it contained according as the wind required it.
• Richmond, the only fortress, had been used as a pivot of operations, and not merely as a shelter for the army.
• A famous bit in Isaiah puts it very clearly, and becomes a sort of pivot passage of all others of this sort.
• The eyes were close together, yellowish-brown in color, and had a peculiar vibrating movement, as though they were hung on a pivot, like a compass-needle.
• The large boat was hoisted off the brass pivot gun amidships and lowered into the water.
• He placed her in the palace Tou Shu, the Pivot of the Pole, because all the other stars revolve round it, and gave her the title of Queen of the Doctrine of Primitive Heaven.
• There are six on each side, arranged in pairs with a small bracket table in between, and each one is on a pivot.
• The great wooden book-case turning on a pivot contains 6,771 volumes, that being the number of canonical volumes enumerated in China and Japan.
• A hole 1 inch in diameter was drilled through the center of this circular piece to receive the pivot pin of a tripod.

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