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Definition of Tilt

1. Verb. To incline or bend from a vertical position. "She leaned over the banister"

2. Noun. A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances.

3. Verb. Heel over. "The ceiling is slanting"

4. Noun. A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. "They were involved in a violent argument"

5. Verb. Move sideways or in an unsteady way. "The ship careened out of control"

6. Noun. A slight but noticeable partiality. "The court's tilt toward conservative rulings"

7. Verb. Charge with a tilt.

8. Noun. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical. "He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

9. Noun. Pitching dangerously to one side.

Definition of Tilt

1. n. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

2. v. t. To cover with a tilt, or awning.

3. v. t. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

4. v. i. 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.

5. n. A thrust, as with a lance.

Definition of Tilt

1. Verb. (transitive) to slope or incline (something); to slant (defdate 1590) ¹

2. Verb. (''jousting'') to charge (at someone) with a lance (defdate 1590) ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) to be at an angle (defdate 1620) ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) to point or thrust a weapon at ¹

5. Verb. to forge (something) with a tilt hammer ¹

6. Verb. (poker) to play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck) ¹

7. Verb. (photography) to move a camera vertically in a controlled way ¹

8. Noun. a slope or inclination ¹

9. Noun. a joust (defdate 1510) ¹

10. Noun. (photography) the controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this ¹

11. Noun. an attempt at something, such as a ''tilt at public office''. ¹

12. Noun. a canvas covering for carts etc. (defdate 1450) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tilt

1. to cause to slant [v -ED, -ING, -S] : TILTABLE [adj]

Medical Definition of Tilt

1. 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) 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. 2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. 3. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat, a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon. Origin: OE. Telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. Teld, geteld; akin to OD. Telde, G. Zelt, Icel. Tjald, Sw. Talt, tjall, Dan. Telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tilt

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