Definition of Tilt

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

Exact synonyms: Joust
Generic synonyms: Battle, Struggle
Group relationships: Tournament
Derivative terms: Joust

2. Verb. To incline or bend from a vertical position. "She leaned over the banister"
Exact synonyms: Angle, Lean, Slant, Tip
Generic synonyms: Bend, Flex
Specialized synonyms: Incline, Pitch, Slope, Weather, Heel, List, Lean Back, Recline
Derivative terms: Angle, Lean, Leaner, Slant
Also: Lean Against, Lean On, Tip Over, Tip Over

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

4. Verb. Heel over. "The ceiling is slanting"
Exact synonyms: Cant, Cant Over, Pitch, Slant
Generic synonyms: Move
Specialized synonyms: Cock
Derivative terms: Cant, Cant, Pitch, Slant, Tilter

5. Noun. A slight but noticeable partiality. "The court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
Generic synonyms: Partiality, Partisanship

6. Verb. Move sideways or in an unsteady way. "The ship careened out of control"
Exact synonyms: Careen, Shift, Wobble
Generic synonyms: Move
Derivative terms: Careen, Shift, Wobble, Wobbler

7. Noun. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical. "He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
Exact synonyms: Inclination, Lean, Leaning, List
Generic synonyms: Position, Spatial Relation
Derivative terms: Incline, Lean, Lean, List

8. Verb. Charge with a tilt.
Generic synonyms: Joust
Derivative terms: Tilter

9. Noun. Pitching dangerously to one side.
Exact synonyms: Careen, Rock, Sway
Generic synonyms: Lurch, Pitch, Pitching
Derivative terms: Careen, Careen, Rock, Rock, Rocky, Sway, Sway, Sway

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

tilliest
tilling
tillings
tillite
tillites
tillman
tillmen
tillodont
tillodontia
tillodonts
tillow
tills
tilly
tilmus
tilorone
tilt-barrier
tilt-shift
tilt-table test
tilt-top table
tilt-up
tilt-yard
tilt-yards
tilt angle
tilt at windmills
tilt barrier
tilt barriers
tilt rail
tilt table
tilt test

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