Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pityingly

see pitying PIVOT (pivots, pivoting, pivoted) 1. The pivot in a situation is the most important thing which everything else is based on or arranged around. Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours. N-COUNT: usu the N in sing, oft the N of n 2. If something pivots, it balances or turns on a central point. The boat pivoted on its central axis and pointed straight at the harbour entrance... She pivots gracefully on the stage... He pivoted his whole body through ninety degrees. VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv, V n prep 3. A pivot is the pin or the central point on which something balances or turns. The pedal had sheared off at the pivot. N-COUNT: usu sing