Pivots

What do we mean by pivots?

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.

(by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.

Act of turning on one foot.

The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.

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

An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.

A pivot table.

Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.

An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.

A quarterback.

A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

Any affliction that causes a person to tandemly discharge bodily fluids from both ends of the digestive track resulting in a squat-bend pivot motion to aim the fluids from the offending end toward a porclain goddess Urban Dictionary

The precise way to bring a couch up a flight of stairs. Urban Dictionary

Turn (spin) around on the spot - or turn from a central point Urban Dictionary

Crucial, Being of vital or central importance Urban Dictionary

A pivot is where a start-up company decides to switch direction in how they make their revenue. This is often after their first plan results in failure. Pivot as relates to entrepreneurship. Urban Dictionary

When someone fixes excel file data to be pivot table ready. Urban Dictionary

To manipulate somebody into doing something, by telling them that they do not want to do it. Urban Dictionary

Used by the media to explain how politicians often say crazy things to appeal to their base during a primary, and then adopt more moderate attitudes once they win their party's nomination. More generally, it's a euphemism for lying or any behavior which upsets our basic expectations of the social contract. Urban Dictionary

A stick figure animator created by Peter Bone. Many people post their animations on Youtube. Also a phone's name. Urban Dictionary

Pivot is a person who will help the pointman and wingman get hooked up with other girls. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to pivots:
pivots, pivot, pilots, divots, picots, pinots, pitots.

Words that rhyme with pivots:
rivets, forgive its, give its, outlive its, relive its.

Adjectives that are often used to describe pivots:
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Consonant match to pivots:
perverts, pave its.

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