Word Meanings - PIVOTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.

• Turnpike
  A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
• POINTALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• Constituted
  of Constitute
• Pertained
  of Pertain
• Pointer
  One who, or that which, points.
• Turnpiked
  of Turnpike
• POINTAPPLIQUE
  Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
• Constituting
  of Constitute
• Pertaining
  of Pertain
• Pointingstock
  An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.
• Turnerite
  A variety of monazite.
• Turnpiking
  of Turnpike
• POINTBLANK
  In a point-blank manner. To sin point-blank against God's word. Fuller.
• Battler
  A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
• Constitute
  To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
• Pertain
  To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.
• Pointless
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.
• Turnery
  The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

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