pivot

pivot is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
2. noun. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
3. noun. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
4. noun. The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
5. transitive verb. To place on a pivot.
6. noun. the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot

   "the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot"

7. noun. axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

   Synonyms: pin

8. noun. the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
9. verb. turn on a pivot

   Synonyms: swivel

Synonyms

pin, swivel

Common word forms

pivots, pivotal, pivoted, pivoter, pivoting, pivotable

Words from these letters

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