Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
- 2noun
The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
- 3noun
Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
- 4noun
The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
- 5transitive verb
To place on a pivot.
- 6noun
the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot
"the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot"
- 7noun
axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
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- 8noun
the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
- 9verb
turn on a pivot
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