See Also: Pasquin(dictionary)
pasquin(medicine)
pivot(medicine)
pivot(2)(dictionary)
pivot(1)(dictionary)
PIVOT(finance)
Pivot(money)
pivot 1, noun(dictionary)
Pivot point(finance)
Pivot - Basketball(gambling)

pivot(1) (iou) and Pasquin (iou)


pivot(1) (iou)



pivot noun. LME.

A short shaft or pin on which something turns or oscillates, as the pin of a hinge, the end of an axle, etc.; a fulcrum. Also (gen.), a part of anything on which another part turns. LME.
E. Bruton One pivot of each wheel. J. C. Powys He turned his..head on the pivot of his neck.
Military. The person about whom a body of troops wheels. Also, that flank by which the alignment of troops is corrected. L18.
transf. & fig.
a. A crucial or central point, person, etc., on which everything depends. E19.
S. Hastings The Colonel..was the pivot of her existence. M. Forster Mary Barrett had been..a pivot upon which the..family turned.
b. spec. A device in classical Japanese poetry involving the use of a pun which implies one meaning with the words preceding it and another with those following. L19.
c. In Football and Other Games, (the position of) a centre-back or Other central player. E20.
attrib.: Rebound Front-court forward..the pivot position.
d. Basketball. A move in which the player with the ball takes a step while keeping one foot in contact with the floor. E20.
e. Math. A non-zero element of a determinant or matrix used in a special way in the numerical evaluation of the determinant, or in the numerical solution of simultaneous linear equations. Cf. PIVOTING 2. M20.
f. Linguistics. = pivot word below. M20.
Comb.: pivot bearing = FOOTSTEP 3c; pivot class Linguistics the class of pivot words; pivot foot Basketball the foot kept in contact with the floor in a pivot; pivot grammar Linguistics a grammar of an early stage in children's speech in which two word classes are postulated, pivot words and a larger open class; pivot-hole: into which the ends of the spindle of a wheel in a watch or clock are run; pivot-joint Anatomy a joint in which the articular movement is that of a pivot; pivotman a player in a centre-back or Other central position; pivot word Linguistics any of a set of words used at an early stage of a child's acquisition of language as central items to which Other words are attached.

Pasquin (iou)



Pasquin noun. M16.
[Italian Pasquino name of the statue: see sense 1.]
Hist.
A statue in Rome on which abusive Latin verses were annually posted in the 16th cent.; transf. an imaginary person to whom anonymous lampoons were conventionally ascribed. M16.
= PASQUINADE noun. E17-M18.