Crossword-Solution: PIVOT 5 letters, 148 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Pivot n. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or
other body turns.
Pivot n. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a
support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
Pivot n. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on
which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
Pivot 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.
Pivot v. t. To place on a pivot.

We have 148 clues for the answer “PIVOT”

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Abrupt realignment of policy priorities 1 answer
Avoid traveling, in a way 1 answer
Basketball center, informally 1 answer
Basketball footwork 1 answer
Basketball move 1 answer
Cagey debater's tactic 1 answer
Center position, in basketball 1 answer
Center's position 1 answer
Central turning point 1 answer
Centre of revolution 1 answer
Change strategies 1 answer
Classic Ross Geller line shouted while carrying a couch up the stairs 1 answer
Court center, usually 1 answer
Device for rotation. 1 answer
Double-play action. 1 answer
Fulcrum; turn 1 answer
Heart, crux. 1 answer
Hoopster's footwork 1 answer
Hoopster's tactic 1 answer
Kareem's position 1 answer
Key factor 1 answer
Make a quick policy change 1 answer
Move for a startup 1 answer
Move on a court or a diamond 1 answer
Not answer a question directly, as a politician might 1 answer
Offensive basketball position 1 answer
POINT of rotation 1 answer
Pirouette, essentially 1 answer
Revolution in basketball? 1 answer
Revolving door feature 1 answer
Role for Shaq 1 answer
Rotating point 1 answer
Rotation point 1 answer
Scissors feature 1 answer
Second baseman's double play maneuver. 1 answer
Shift strategies 1 answer
Shortstop's double play move 1 answer
Skillful swivel 1 answer
Spin around a point 1 answer
Switch to plan B, say 1 answer
Take a new tack 1 answer
Toe, during a pirouette 1 answer
Try a different tack 1 answer
Turn around a fixed point 1 answer
Turn full circle 1 answer
Turn like a Rocket 1 answer
Turn on a point 1 answer
Turn on a shaft 1 answer
Turn on a single foot 1 answer
Turn on one foot 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PIVOT (5)

And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Instantly the door swung upon its pivot, and the contiguous section of the floor upon which I was standing carried me with it into the chamber where Tars Tarkas fought.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The doubt about the safety of the Diamond was, once more, the dominant impression in his brain! On that one pivot, the whole success of the experiment turned.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with PIVOT (3)

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God i…
Mark Helprin
It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.
Nicole Krauss Man Walks Into a Room
A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 124 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).