Pivot vs. Hinge

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.

Pivotnoun

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

Pivotnoun

Act of turning on one foot.

Pivotnoun

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

Pivotnoun

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

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.

Pivotnoun

(computing) A pivot table.

Pivotnoun

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

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.

Pivotverb

(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.

Pivotnoun

A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.

Pivotnoun

The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.

Pivotnoun

Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

Pivotnoun

The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; - called also pivot man.

Pivotverb

To place on a pivot.

Pivotnoun

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

Pivotnoun

axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

Pivotnoun

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

Pivotverb

turn on a pivot

Pivotnoun

the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.

Pivotnoun

a person or thing that plays a central part in a situation or enterprise

Pivotnoun

the person or position from which a body of troops takes its reference point when moving or changing course.

Pivotnoun

a player in a central position in a team sport.

Pivotnoun

a movement in which the player holding the ball may move in any direction with one foot, while keeping the other (the pivot foot) in contact with the floor.

Pivotverb

turn on or as if on a pivot

Pivotverb

provide (a mechanism) with a pivot; fix (a mechanism) on a pivot.

Pivotverb

depend on

Hingenoun

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

Hingenoun

A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.

Hingenoun

A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.

Hingenoun

A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.

Hingenoun

(statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.

Hingenoun

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Hingeverb

(transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

Hingeverb

or upon}} To depend on something.

Hingeverb

The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.

Hingeverb

(obsolete) To bend.

Hingenoun

The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.

Hingenoun

That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

Hingenoun

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Hingeverb

To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.

Hingeverb

To bend.

Hingeverb

To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; - usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

Hingenoun

a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other

Hingenoun

a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend;

Hingeverb

attach with a hinge

Hinge

A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Two objects connected by an ideal hinge rotate relative to each other about a fixed axis of rotation: all other translations or rotations being prevented, and thus a hinge has one degree of freedom.