Definitions for pivoting

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pivoting piv·ot·ing

Spelling: [piv-uh-ting]

IPA: /ˈpɪv ə tɪŋ/

Pivoting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in pivoting (giinoptv).

Definitions for pivoting

noun

1. (formerly) the attaching of an artificial crown to the root of a tooth with a metal dowel.
2. a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
3. the end of a shaft or arbor, resting and turning in a bearing.
4. any thing or person on which something or someone functions or depends vitally:
5. the person in a line, as of troops on parade, whom the others use as a point about which to wheel or maneuver.
6. a whirling about on one foot.
7. Basketball. the act of keeping one foot in place while holding the ball and moving the other foot one step in any direction, so as not to be charged with walking.
8. Basketball. an offensive position in the front court, usually played by the center, in which the player stands facing away from the offensive basket and serves as the pivot of the offense by setting up plays through passing, making screens, and taking shots. Also called pivotman. the player who plays in the pivot position.
9. Dentistry. (formerly) dowel (def 4).

verb (used with object)

1. to mount on, attach by, or provide with a pivot or pivots.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn on or as on a pivot.
2. Basketball. to keep one foot in place while holding the ball and moving the other foot one step in any direction.

Origin of pivoting

1850-55; pivot (v.) + -ing¹

Examples for pivoting

The Romney campaign appears on the verge of pivoting and re-embracing the candidate's most important achievement as governor.

But pivoting from “Hope and Change” to “It Could Have Been Worse” is somewhere between insufficient and sad.

In pivoting the body, or showing attention, the eye always leads.

My boat is awash, pivoting to and fro on the grips of the front "limbs."

In pivoting cylinders there is some danger of breaking them.

The U.S. military spent decades pivoting away from its Cold War stance.

The skipper's eye is on the mainsail, which is the point of pivoting.

So quick was his pivoting motion that Casey was almost unseated.

Gingrich seemed slightly flustered, pivoting back to the poor grandmothers.

pivoting on his heels, he casually strolled out toward a nearby walled courtyard.