(military, history) A very large shield, like a small moveable wall, carried in front to protect all or most of the bearer's body, often with a projecting ridge running vertically down the center.
piave
pivot
pivot
noun
(Canadian football) A quarterback.
(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.
(computing) A pivot table.
(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.
(figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
(graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
(handball) A circle runner.
(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.
(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.
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.
Act of turning on one foot.
verb
(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.
(business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
pluvi
privy
privy
adj
(now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
(now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
noun
(law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
spivs
spivs
noun
plural of spiv
vapid
vapid
adj
Lifeless, dull, or banal.
Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
vimpa
vimpa
noun
A veil or shawl worn over the shoulders of servers who carry the mitre and crosier during liturgical functions when they are not being used by the bishop, in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western churches.
viper
viper
noun
(figurative) A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
