Pivot vs. Twist

Pivot vs. Twist — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pivot and Twist

Pivotnoun

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.

Twistnoun

A twisting force.

Pivotnoun

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

Twistnoun

Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.

Pivotnoun

Act of turning on one foot.

Twistnoun

The form given in twisting.

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Pivotnoun

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

Twistnoun

The degree of stress or strain when twisted.

Pivotnoun

(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.

Twistnoun

A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.

Pivotnoun

(computing) 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.

Twistnoun

A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.

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Pivotnoun

(computing) A pivot table.

Twistnoun

A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.

Pivotnoun

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

Twistnoun

A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.

Pivotnoun

(mathematics) 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.

Twistnoun

(authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.

Pivotverb

(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.

Twistnoun

A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance)

Pivotnoun

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

Twistnoun

A rotation of the body when diving.

Pivotnoun

axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

Twistnoun

A sprain, especially to the ankle.

Pivotnoun

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

the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot

Twistnoun

(obsolete) A twig.

Pivotverb

turn on a pivot

Twistnoun

(slang) A girl, a woman.

Twistnoun

(obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.

Twistnoun

A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.

Damascus twist

Twistnoun

The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

Twistnoun

A beverage made of brandy and gin.

Twistnoun

A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.

a twist toward fanaticism

Twistverb

To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

Twistverb

To join together by twining one part around another.

Twistverb

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

Twistverb

To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

Twistverb

(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.

Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

Twistverb

To turn a knob etc.

Twistverb

To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

Twistverb

To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).

Twistverb

To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

Twistverb

To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

Twistverb

(transitive) To cause to rotate.

Twistverb

(intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).

Twistverb

(transitive) To coax.

Twistverb

(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

Twistnoun

an unforeseen development;

events suddenly took an awkward turn

Twistnoun

an interpretation of a text or action;

they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct

Twistnoun

any clever (deceptive) maneuver;

he would stoop to any device to win a point

Twistnoun

the act of rotating rapidly;

he gave the crank a spinit broke off after much twisting

Twistnoun

a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments;

the wrench to his knee occurred as he fellhe was sidelined with a hamstring pull

Twistnoun

a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

Twistnoun

a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

Twistnoun

a jerky pulling movement

Twistnoun

a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

Twistnoun

social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s;

they liked to dance the twist

Twistnoun

the act of winding or twisting;

he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind

Twistnoun

turning or twisting around (in place);

with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room

Twistverb

to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);

The prisoner writhed in discomfortThe child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace

Twistverb

cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;

bend the rodtwist the dough into a braidthe strong man could turn an iron bar

Twistverb

turn in the opposite direction;

twist a wire

Twistverb

form into a spiral shape;

The cord is all twisted

Twistverb

form into twists;

Twist the bacon around the sausage

Twistverb

do the twist

Twistverb

twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates;

wrench a window off its hingeswrench oneself free from somebody's gripa deep sigh was wrenched from his chest

Twistverb

practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

Twistverb

twist suddenly so as to sprain;

wrench one's ankleThe wrestler twisted his shoulderthe hikers sprained their ankles when they fellI turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days