English-Dutch translations for pivot

• pivoteren
• spil
  Ik zie dat het cultuurbeleid de spil moet worden voor het Europees beleid. I see cultural policy as pivotal to European policies as a whole.
  Aan u, voorzitter Barroso, vertrouw ik de lastige, maar ook centrale rol als spil van dit proces graag toe. To you, President Barroso, I gladly trust the difficult, but also central, role of the pivot of this process.
  We moeten ons echter wel gaan realiseren dat vanuit Europees oogpunt het Zwarte-Zeegebied langzamerhand de spil wordt waar alles om draait. However, we must start to realise that the Black Sea region is slowly becoming pivotal from the European point of view. It is there that the solution to our energy problems is to be found.
• taats
• tap

Definition of pivot

• 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
• The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling
• 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
• Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs
• A quarterback
• To turn on an exact spot

Related words

• pivotal
• pivoting
• pivoted
• pivotboard
• pivot table
• pivot tooth
• pivot element
• pivot leg
• pivotal point