swivel
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈswɪvəl/
:
mecanismo giratorio
- Do you have a big swivel chair with a huge desk between you and your patient?
- swivel chair
Anyway, I really like the whole swivel feature.
- Anyway, I really like the whole swivel feature.
- So traditional, but there's a, there is a glass door that is on a swivel that only goes halfway down the bathtub.
- And so the the purpose of a swivel is just to sort of take those kinks out of the line.
- I'm in my fancy dweller swivel chair today.
- I recently ordered the cutest boucle swivel chair from article.
- Yeah, but it looks like we should at least have swivel height adjust and tilt.
- I mean the swivel cord makes kind of down in different directions easy.
- And so the polygraph, the swivel chair was Thomas Jefferson and the Jefferson disc, which is ACD that plays White Rabbit.
Examples
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A large orange cat lay sleeping on the padded swivel chair behind the desk.
Fiction book (1990) -
"What can I do for you?" he asked, leaning back in his swivel chair.
Fiction book (1998) -
And while I machine the swivel fit on the leg, let's talk about strength.
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In his office, he sat on a wooden swivel chair at his old-fashioned brown wooden desk.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Charles leaned back in his swivel chair, his arms dangling over the sides.
Fiction book (1999) -
I leaned back in my swivel chair, my arms dangling like they were made of lead.
Fiction book (1995) -
And the thing I like about this monitor is the tilt, swivel pivot and height adjustment on the stand.
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The fisherman attached a swivel to the end of his fishing line to reduce tangles.
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The mechanic explained how a swivel allows parts of machinery to move independently.
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She used a swivel joint to connect the two sections of the pipeline for better flexibility.
Synonyms
A metal part that turns to let a car's wheel move when you steer
A device that spins around a central point
Idioms
- Informal
1
8.1
To stay very alert and watch what is happening around you
Compounds
How Flexible
- Specialized
1
4.1
1
3.8
14
5.3
- Specialized
1
4.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Swivel comes from an old word meaning 'to turn' and is easy to remember if you think of swing, which also moves around a point. So a swivel is a small part that lets something rotate freely on a fixed point.