Pivot vs Veer - What's the difference?
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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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(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.
(obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 12:
*:As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.}}
(of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Bowditch 2002
(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
(nautical) To change direction into the wind; to ship.
To turn.
As nouns the difference between pivot and veer
is that pivot is center while veer is a turn or swerve; an instance of veering.As a verb veer is
(obsolete|nautical) to let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out or veer can be to change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.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
veer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) virer.Verb
(en verb)- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- And as he leads, the following navy veers .
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
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