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n. A short rod or shaft on which a related part rotates or swings.

n. A person or thing on which something depends or turns; the central or crucial factor.

n. The act of turning on or as if on a pivot.

n. Basketball A position taken by an offensive player usually facing away from the basket near the foul line to relay passes, attempt a shot, or set screens.

n. Basketball The stationary foot around which the ball handler is allowed to pivot without dribbling.

v. To mount on, attach by, or provide with a pivot or pivots.

v. To cause to rotate, revolve, or turn.

verb-intransitive. To turn on or as if on a pivot: "The plot . . . lacks direction, pivoting on Hamlet's incertitude” ( G. Wilson Knight).

n. 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.

n. Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.

n. Act of turning on one foot.

n. A player in with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.

v. To turn on an exact spot.

n. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.

n. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support.

n. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend.

n. The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.

v. To place on a pivot.

n. A pin on which a wheel or other object turns.

n. Milit., the officer or soldier upon whom a line of troops wheels.

n. Figuratively, that on which some matter or result hinges or depends; a turning-point.

To place on a pivot; furnish with a pivot.

To turn or swing on a pivot, or as on a pivot: hinge.

n. the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot

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

n. axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

v. turn on a pivot

"Morrissey also notes that this is the second time official white house communications have used the term pivot"

pivotally    pivoted    pivoting    pivots   

rotation    rotary motion    marcher    parader   

pivotal    fulcrum   

pivot man   

pivoted    pivoting   

civet    rivet   

intraday    swivel    fulcrum    axle    pulley    hinge    u-shaped    movable    lookup    ejector