Pivot vs Beer - What's the difference?
pivot | beer |
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.
Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
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, chapter=1 Act of turning on one foot.
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(military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
(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.
To turn on an exact spot.
(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}} (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
(uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
(countable) A variety of the above beverages.
To give beer to (someone)
* Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta'' in 1870 , Clement Scott, ''Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes , Robson and Sons,
* 2010 , Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1 , Carolrhoda Lab,
* 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland,
* 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden ,
As nouns the difference between pivot and beer
is that pivot is center while beer is .pivot
English
(wikipedia pivot)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
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.
Derived terms
* pivot bridge * pivot gun * pivot toothSee also
* fulcrum * pivotalVerb
beer
English
(wikipedia beer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .Noun
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* beer and skittles * beer belly * beer-bust * beer can * beered-up * beer garden * beer goggles * beer gut * beer hall * beerily * beerish * beerless * beer mat * beer muscles * beer parlour * beery * bock beer * champagne taste on a beer budget * craft beer * cry in one's beer * ginger beer * keg beer * ice beer * near beer * root beer * small beer * spruce beer (beer)Descendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l)Verb
(en verb)pages 303–304:
- No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.
page 121:
- “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”
page 124:
- I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’
page 39:
- “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.
