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Tilt Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Tilt?
[n] pitching dangerously to one side
[n] the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" [n] a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings" [n] a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [n] a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances [v] charge with a tilt, as in a joust [v] heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" [v] move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control [v] to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tilt: angle | arguing | argument | cant | cant over | careen | careen | contention | contestation | controversy | disputation | inclination | joust | lean | lean | leaning | list | pitch | rock | shift | slant | sway | sway | tip | wobble Related Terms | Find terms related to Tilt: See Also | argle-bargle | argy-bargy | battle | bend | bowl over | cock | conflict | difference | difference of opinion | dispute | flex | incline | joust | knock over | lean against | lean back | lean on | list | lurch | move | overturn | partiality | partisanship | pitch | pitching | polemic | position | recline | rest on | slope | sparring | spatial relation | struggle | tip over | totter | tournament | turn over | upset | weather Tilt In Webster's Dictionary \Tilt\, n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS.
teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw.
t["a]lt, tj["a]ll, Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.]
1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. --Denham.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning
extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
{Tilt boat} (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other
cloth.
{Tilt roof} (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of
a wagon.
\Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tilted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tilting}.] To cover with a tilt, or awning. \Tilt\, v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. t["o]lt an ambling pace, t["o]lta to amble. Cf. {Totter}.] 1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. 2. To point or thrust, as a lance. Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. --J. Philips. 3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. \Tilt\, v. i. 1. 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. He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. --Shak. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. --Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. --Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the ?urges flew. --Pope. 2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. --Grew. \Tilt\, n. 1. A thrust, as with a lance. --Addison. 2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. 3. See {Tilt hammer}, in the Vocabulary. 4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. {Full tilt}, with full force. --Dampier. |
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