Pivot vs. Twist
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.
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.
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 pivotTwistnoun
(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 twistTwistnoun
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 fanaticismTwistverb
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 turnTwistnoun
an interpretation of a text or action;
they put an unsympathetic construction on his conductTwistnoun
any clever (deceptive) maneuver;
he would stoop to any device to win a pointTwistnoun
the act of rotating rapidly;
he gave the crank a spinit broke off after much twistingTwistnoun
a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments;
the wrench to his knee occurred as he fellhe was sidelined with a hamstring pullTwistnoun
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 twistTwistnoun
the act of winding or twisting;
he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good windTwistnoun
turning or twisting around (in place);
with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the roomTwistverb
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 embraceTwistverb
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 barTwistverb
turn in the opposite direction;
twist a wireTwistverb
form into a spiral shape;
The cord is all twistedTwistverb
form into twists;
Twist the bacon around the sausageTwistverb
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 chestTwistverb
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
