Pivot

Definition: Pivot

Pivot

Noun

1. The person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver.

2. Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns.

3. The act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; "the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot".

Verb

1. Turn on a pivot.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pivot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Occupations

Physics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pivot

Cause

Pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back.

Junction

Joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation,

Rotation

Axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point; axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel; axle shaft; gymbal; hub, hub of rotation.

Support

Trunnion, pivot, rowlock; peg; (pendency); tiebeam; (fastening); thole pin.

Crosswords: Pivot

French (backbone, fulcrum, hub, linchpin, pivot, pivotal, spindle, swivel, tap), Romanian (cone, gudgeon, hinge, pintle, pivot, Spike, spindle, Trunnion), Turkish (pivot).

Books

• Korea: Security Pivot in Northeast Asia (reference)

• Ling Shu or The Spiritual Pivot (reference)

• Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (reference)

• The Economic Pivot in a Political Context (Rand Studies Published With Transaction) (reference)

• The Pivot of Civilization (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Pivot (reference)

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  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 15in LCD 29mm 1024x768 61hz151b Silver Pivot (reference)

• MM BASE FOR 170B2T 180B2G-AUD TILT SWIVEL PIVOT BL (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• KitchenAid KB3SS 3-Quart Stainless Steel Bowl for Pivot Head Stand Mixers (reference)

• KitchenAid KBC90N Mixer Bowl Covers for Pivot Head Stand Mixer Bowls, Set of 2 (reference)

• VS Sassoon VSCL868 Professional Pivot Motor Hair Clipper Kit (reference)

• Bosch 1657B 7-1/4" Pivot Foot Saw with Brake, No Case (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Center pivot irrigation systems created these circular patterns in crop land near Garden City, Kansas. The red circles indicate irrigated crops of healthy vegetation. The light-colored circles represent harvested crops.. Credit: NASA.

Center pivot irrigation on wheat growing in Yuma County, Colorado. Credit: Gene Alexander.

Center pivot irrigation using LESA (Low Elevation Spray Application) system. This type of application uses less water and reduces evaporation. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Pivot sprinkler system in Jefferson County. Credit: Howard Johnson.

Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed project area are converting from flood irrigation to sprinkler irrigation systems to help restore the Lemhi River to its former status as prime salmon habitat. Center pivot sprinkler systems like this one give ranche. Credit: Joel McNee.

Contour farming, terraces, and rye grass field strips under center pivot irrigation. Tifton, GA. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Pivot irrigation on cotton in Mississippi. Credit: USDA.

19th Century lithograph, purporting to represent CSS Florida (1862-1864). This image bears no real resemblance to that ship: Florida had two smokestacks, not one as shown here; a battery that included pivot guns, not an exclusively broadside armament; and a bark rig, not that of a ship; among other differences from the vessel seen in this print. Credit: NAVY.

Artwork by J.O. Davidson, depicting the sinking of CSS Alabama, as seen from USS Kearsarge. The crew of one of Kearsarge's eleven-inch Dahlgren pivot guns is celebrating their victory. Credit: NAVY.

Crewmembers by the ship's Dahlgren XI-inch pivot gun and foremast, during the Civil War. Copied from Francis Trevelyan Miller's "The Photographic History of the Civil War" Volume 6, page 43. This photograph is the right half of a wider image, with Photo # NH 42265 being the left half. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The Brazilian market for center pivot equipment has a backlog of approximately six months. (references)

While center pivot is the most popular system, side rolls and traveler guns are also being installed. (references)

Center pivot equipment, and especially for the coffee growers, was responsible for the majority of that increase. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Sugar estates, which cultivate 70% of sugar cane land, are increasingly investing in pivot systems of irrigation, for which the United States is the leading supplier. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "pivot": Fixed pivot ♦ flexural pivot ♦ pivot bearing ♦ pivot bolt ♦ pivot bridge ♦ pivot gun ♦ pivot hung window ♦ pivot joint ♦ pivot man ♦ pivot on ♦ pivot point ♦ pivot shot ♦ pivot tooth. Additional references.

Beginning with "pivot": pivot-based, pivot-hole, pivot-journal, pivot-point.

Ending with "pivot": half-pivot.

Albanian

strumbullar (axis), qendër (center, centre, ganglion, heart, heartland, hub, navel, nucleus, radiant, unit), lojtar i qendrës (center, centre), bosht (Arista, axis, axle, axletree, bobbin, fulcrum, kingbolt, kingpin, shaft, spindle), aks (axis, shaft, spindle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محور (axis, center, centre, heart, hub, shaft, spin, spindle, spun), ‏أدار على محور, ‏شخص أساسي (pivotal), ‏دار على محور (swivel, traverse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъбло (peduncle, scape, shaft, shank, stalk, stock, tige, trunk), център (center, centre, headquarters, hinge, hub, kingpin, navel, nucleus, omphalos, pocket, seat), шарнирен болт, въртя се (circle, fidget, flutter, hover, reel, shuffle, swirl, wheel, whirl), ос на въртене (fulcrum), опорна точка (fulcrum, purchase, strong point, supporting point, toehold), завися (depend, hinge), прът (club, pole, rod, stick, upright), поставям център на, поставям върху център, поставям върху ос, поставям ос на. (various references)

Chinese 

枢轴. (various references)

Czech

střed (center, centre, midst), otoèný èep (swivel), otáèet se (gyrate, revolve, rotate, spin, veer, wheel), osa (axis, axle, shaft), opatřit èepem, kolík (baton, dossil, peg, pin, plug). (various references)

Danish

tap (butt, chuck, core, disc pivot, dowel, hinge bolt, journal, peg, pintle, shoulder, spigot, spike tooth, sprue, tack, tap, tenon, wire nail), omdrejningspunkt (fulcrum, pivot point), halsleje (pintle stone), drejetap (bogie pin, bogie pivot, hinge bolt, inner shaft, journal, king pin, king pivot, pintle, pivot pin, spindle, swivel, upper centre casting), aksialsøjle (journal for axial load, pivot-journal). (various references)

Dutch

tap (electric plug, faucet, plug, spindle, stopper, tap), spil (axis, axle, spindle), roteren (rotate, rotation), draaien (dial, roll, turn, turn around, turn round). (various references)

Esperanto

pivoto, pivoti. (various references)

Farsi 

پاشنه (Heel, Talon), میله (Axle, Bar, Beam, Filament, Gad, Lever, Rod, Shaft, Slat, Spike, Stem, Stilt, Style), محوراصلی کار, محور (Axis, Axle, Hinge, Pedestal), مخورچرخ , مدار (Circuit, Orbit, Theme, Zone), نقطه اتکاء (Mainstay, Stay), چرخیدن (Reel, Revolve, Rollup, Rotate, Swing, Trill, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), چرخاندن (Spin, Swivel, Wind), روی پاشنه چرخیدن , روی پاشنه گشتن , روی چیزی چرخیدن . (various references)

Finnish

pultti (bolt, peg, pin), tukipiste (anchor point, fulcrum, pivot point), tappi (pin, plug, stopper, tap, tenon), nivelakseli (pivot pin). (various references)

French

pivot (pivotal). (various references)

German

Drehpunkt (centre of rotation, fulcrum, spindle), Drehzapfen (centre pin), Achse (arbor, axis, axle, center line, shaft, spindle). (various references)

Greek 

κέντρο περιστροφής ενός μοχλού (fulcrum, pivot point), στρόφιγξ, στρέφομαι (hinge, obvert, swivel, turn round, veer), στρεφόμενος άξονας (inner shaft, spindle, swivel), στροφέας (inner shaft, journal, journal for axial load, pintle, pivot-journal, plug, spindle, swivel), στροφεύς (disc pivot), στροφείο (pintle, tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), στήριγμα δίσκου (disc pivot), φορέας άξονα με ακτινικό φορτίο (journal for axial load, pivot-journal), ελατήριο (incentive, inducement, motive, spring, spur, stimulus), άξων (axis, hub, mandrel, mandril, shaft), άξονασ περιστροφήσ (gudgeon), άξονας-ακίδα (hinge bolt, pintle), άξονας (axis, axle, shaft). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסובב על ציר, ציר (axis, axle, hinge, mandrill, pin, pole, spindle). (various references)

Hungarian

sarkpont (pole). (various references)

Indonesian

poros (axis), berputar (cycling, gyrate, rotary, twirl). (various references)

Italian

perno (axis, axle, gib, gudgeon, hinge, hub, kingpin, mainstay, pin, spindle, stud, support, swivel), fulcro (fulcrum, hub). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

要 (vital point), 枢軸 (axle), 中枢 (backbone, central figure, centre, key man, mainstay, nucleus, pillar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すうじく (axle), �"ボット , かなめ (vital point), ちゅうすう (arithmetical mean, backbone, central figure, centre, key man, mainstay, nucleus, pillar), ちゅうし�" (balance, center, core, devotion, emphasis, faithfulness, heart, information, innermost feelings, loyal retainer, loyal subject, making a report, moderate earthquake), ちゅうじく (axis, central figure, key man). (various references)

Korean 

� 회축. (various references)

Manx

pinney (peg), cur er pinney, cassey er pinney. (various references)

Pig Latin

ivotpay.(various references)

Portuguese

pivô (hinge bolt, pintle, spindle, swivel), eixo (axis, axle, center line, centre line, hub, kingpin, spindle), articulação (articulation, join, knee, knuckle, link, lith, pronouncing, speech, vocalization). (various references)

Romanian

punct central (center, centre, hub), pivota (rotate, swing), pivot (cone, gudgeon, hinge, pintle, Spike, spindle, Trunnion), articulaţie (articulation, joint, knuckle). (various references)

Russian 

стержень (arm, bar, bolt, center, centre, core, peg, rod, scape, shaft, shank, spindle, stud), точка вращения, точка опоры (foothold, fulcrum, purchase, toehold), вращать стержень, основной пункт, основа (backbone, base, basics, basis, essentials, framework, fundamentals, grassroots, groundwork, medulla, rudiments, warp), блок (bloc, block, card cage, pulley, sheave, suite, suites). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pivotiranje, stožer (axle, pole, swivel), okretati se (slue round), obrtati se (rotate, wheel, whirl), glavna tačka (main point). (various references)

Spanish

pivote (gib, pin, swivel). (various references)

Swedish

lagertapp. (various references)

Turkish

pivot, püf noktası (crux, gadget, knack, the nub, tip, trick), reze (hinge), oyun kurucu, mil (Arbor, axle, axle tree, cannon, gudgeon, mile, milliary, pin, pintle, probe, shaft, spindle, style, stylus, tree), en önemli nokta, eksen etrafında dönmek, eksen (axial, axis, axle, pintle, pivotal, rachis, spindle), dayanak (abutment, anchorage, base, fulcrum, ground, hinge, Mount, prop, rest, shore, support), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), bağlı olmak (appertain, be attached to, be based on, be linked, bound up with, cleave, depend, hang, hang on, hinge on, interconnect, interdepend, pay homage to, relate, rest on, sit under, turn on, turn upon), çark etmek (circle, swing, turn, wheel). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрижень (center, centre, medulla, shank, stem), робити поворот, центр (center, centre, midpoint, navel, nucleus), точка опори (fulcrum, purchase, toehold), крутитися (circle, climb, flail, jib, reel, slue, spin, wangle), обертатися (circle, circuit, encircle, encompass, revolve, rotate, slew, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, wheel, whirl), надівати на стрижень. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trụ (spar), ngõng (trunnion), điểm mấu chốt (heart). (various references)

Welsh

pegwn (axis, pole), colyn (sting). (various references)

polos. (various references)

axis. (various references)

pivot. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pivot": pivotable, pivotal, pivotally, pivoted, pivoting, pivotman, pivotmen, pivots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pivot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bivot, givot, Hivolt, paivet, Paivio, pavet, Pavol, Peixoto, Pejot, Peveit, pevit, Pevnost, Pibor, pidot, pigot, pimot, Piot, Pirot, pitot, Piva, pivat, pivet, piviot, pivit, pivo, pivor, pivote, Pixote, pizo, povet, povo, privo, privot, Pvi, Pygot, Pyot, Tiviot, tivot, wivout, Zivota. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: topi.

-2 letters: opt, pit, poi, pot, tip, top.

-3 letters: it, op, pi, ti, to.

+1 letter: pivots.

+2 letters: overtip, pivotal, pivoted.

+3 letters: adoptive, anviltop, optative, overtips, oviposit, pivoting, pivotman, pivotmen, positive, postdive, sorptive, sportive.

+4 letters: anviltops, evaporite, operative, optatives, overprint, overslipt, oviposits, pivotable, pivotally, pollutive, portative, positiver, positives, poverties, privation, proactive, probative, promotive, provident, stovepipe, vaporetti, videotape, viewpoint.

+5 letters: absorptive, adoptively, adsorptive, appointive, appositive, captivator, completive, conceptive, copulative, corruptive, evaporites, evaporitic, exploitive, expositive, operatives, optatively, overprints, overtipped, oviposited, ovipositor, pejorative, perovskite, positively, positivest, positivism, positivist, positivity, prevention, privations, proclivity, productive, projective, protective, protensive, protrusive, provitamin, resorptive, sportively, stovepipes, supportive, videotaped, videotapes, viewpoints, voiceprint.