Tilt vs. Pivot — What's the Difference?

Move or cause to move into a sloping position

The central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.

(in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon

Turn on or as if on a pivot

A sloping position or movement

A short rod or shaft on which a related part rotates or swings.

A combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust.

A person or thing on which something depends; the central or crucial factor

A small hut in a forest.

The act of turning on a pivot.

To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline

A dramatic change in policy, position, or strategy

To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another

A person around which a formation of marching people turns.

To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.

(Sports) A player who plays at the center of the offense.

To charge (an opponent); attack.

A position taken by an offensive player usually facing away from the basket near the foul line to relay passes, attempt a shot, or set screens.

To forge with a tilt hammer.

The stationary foot around which the ball handler is allowed to pivot without dribbling.

To slope; incline

To mount on, attach by, or provide with a pivot or pivots.

To have a preference, favor, or be inclined toward something

To cause to rotate, revolve, or turn

To be advantageous to one side over another, as in a dispute

To turn on a pivot.

To fight with lances; joust.

To depend or be centered

To engage in a combat or struggle; fight

To make a dramatic change in policy, position, or strategy

To cover (a vehicle) with a canopy or an awning.

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.

The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.

Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.

An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant

Act of turning on one foot.

A sloping surface, as of the ground.

(military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.

A tendency to favor one side in a dispute

(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.

A preference, inclination, or bias

(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.

A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.

(computing) A pivot table.

A thrust or blow with a lance.

(GUI) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.

A combat, especially a verbal one; a debate.

(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.

A tilt hammer.

(Canadian football) A quarterback.

New England See seesaw.

(handball) A circle runner.

A canopy or an awning for a boat, wagon, or cart.

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.

(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.

(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.

(intransitive) To be at an angle.

To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.

To charge (at someone) with a lance.

To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.

(transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.

To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

(transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).

A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.

To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; - called also pivot man.

(transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

To place on a pivot.

A slope or inclination.

The person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver

The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

(photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.

The act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot;

A jousting contest. (countable)

Turn on a pivot

An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.

A thrust, as with a lance.

A tilt hammer.

A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.

Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

A thrust, as with a lance.

A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

To point or thrust, as a lance.

To point or thrust a weapon at.

To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;

A slight but noticeable partiality;

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;

Pitching dangerously to one side

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

Heel over;

Move sideways or in an unsteady way;

Charge with a tilt