different between divot vs pivot

English

Etymology

1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), of unclear origin. The Scots word also appeared as devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v?t/

Noun

divot (plural divots)

1. (especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
   • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York: Scribner, 1953, Chapter 8, p. 155,^[1]

     Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.

   • 2007, Lewis Crofts, The Pornographer of Vienna, London: Old Street, Chapter 1, p. 4,^[2]

     Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated.

2. A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.

Translations

Verb

divot (third-person singular simple present divots, present participle divoting, simple past and past participle divoted)

1. (transitive, especially golf) To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.

References

• “divot”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
• Fenton, Alexander (1986): The Shape of the Past: Essays in Scottish Ethnology, Volume 2

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot, penis”) (12 c.), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?v?t/
• Rhymes: -?v?t

Noun

pivot (plural pivots)

1. 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.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
3. Act of turning on one foot.
   • 2012, Banking reform: Sticking together, The Economist, 18th August issue

     Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot: he now wants regulators to undo his previous work.

4. (military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
5. (roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
6. (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.
7. (computing) A pivot table.
8. (graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
9. (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.
10. (Canadian football) A quarterback.
11. (US, politics) A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

Derived terms

• pivot bridge
• pivot gun
• pivot point
• pivot tooth

Translations

See also

• fulcrum
• pivotal

Verb

pivot (third-person singular simple present pivots, present participle pivoting, simple past and past participle pivoted)

1. (intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
2. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
   1. (business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
   2. (US, politics) To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

Translations

Finnish

Noun

pivot

1. Nominative plural form of pivo.

French

Etymology

From Old French pivot, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.vo/

Noun

pivot m (plural pivots)

1. pivot
2. fulcrum
3. lynchpin
4. (basketball) center
   • Pivot (basket-ball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
5. (botany) taproot

Derived terms

• pivotant
• pivotement
• pivoter
• pivoteur

Further reading

• “pivot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pivot, from French pivot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?piv?t??]
• Hyphenation: pi?vot

Noun

pivot (plural pivot-pivot, first-person possessive pivotku, second-person possessive pivotmu, third-person possessive pivotnya)

1. pivot.

   Synonyms: putaran, poros, inti

Verb

pivot

1. to pivot.

Further reading

• “pivot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

From French pivot.

Noun

pivot n (plural pivoturi)

1. pivot

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English pivot.

Noun

pivot m (plural pivots)

1. (basketball) pivot