Trundle vs Pivot - What's the difference?
trundle | pivot |
A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
A small wheel or roller.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
(engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
To wheel or roll, especially by pushing.
To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
Move heavily (on wheels).
To move (physically).
To move, often heavily or clumsily.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.
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.
As nouns the difference between trundle and pivot
is that trundle is a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed while pivot is center.As a verb trundle
is to wheel or roll, especially by pushing.trundle
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (low bed on wheels) trundle bedVerb
(trundl)- Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
- to trundle a bed or a gun carriage
- to trundle a hoop or a ball
Derived terms
* trundle outReferences
* "trundle." WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University. 15 Jun. 2007.Dictionary.com. * "trundle." Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. 15 Jun. 2007.
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Anagrams
*pivot
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(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.