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tilt
1[ tilt ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
- to rush at or charge, as in a joust.
- to hold poised for attack, as a lance.
- to move (a camera) up or down on its vertical axis for photographing or televising a moving character, object, or the like.
verb (used without object)
- to move into or assume a sloping position or direction.
- to strike, thrust, or charge with a lance or the like (usually followed by at ).
- to engage in a joust, tournament, or similar contest.
- (of a camera) to move on its vertical axis:
The camera tilts downward for an overhead shot.
- to incline in opinion, feeling, etc.; lean:
She's tilting toward the other candidate this year.
noun
- an act or instance of tilting.
- the state of being tilted; a sloping position.
- a slope.
- a joust or any other contest.
- a dispute; controversy.
- a thrust of a weapon, as at a tilt or joust.
- (in aerial photography) the angle formed by the direction of aim of a camera and a perpendicular to the surface of the earth.
tilt
2[ tilt ]
noun
- a cover of coarse cloth, canvas, etc., as for a wagon.
- an awning.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with a tilt.
tilt
1/ tɪlt /
verb
- to incline or cause to incline at an angle
- usually intr to attack or overthrow (a person or people) in a tilt or joust
- whenintr, often foll by at to aim or thrust
to tilt a lance
- tr to work or forge with a tilt hammer
noun
- a slope or angle
at a tilt
- the act of tilting
- esp in medieval Europe
- a jousting contest
- a thrust with a lance or pole delivered during a tournament
- an attempt to win a contest
- See tilt hammer
- full tilt or at full tiltat full speed or force
tilt
2/ tɪlt /
noun
- an awning or canopy, usually of canvas, for a boat, booth, etc
verb
- tr to cover or provide with a tilt
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Derived Forms
- ˈtilter, noun
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Other Words From
- tilta·ble adjective
- tilter noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Dinosaurs like Donald Sterling draw the ire of Americans, regardless of political affiliation or ideological tilt.
Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.
When out and about, if we feel threatened, as we always do, we tilt our heads back and cry out, “ALL THE SINGLE LADIES!”
This tilt towards of the financial elites, as Elizabeth Warren has noted, occurred during both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
The solution could be right at your fingertips, with a simple tilt of a glass.
Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
Then when my hair had been parted and smoothed down, I crowned myself with my campaign hat at the dashingest possible tilt.
In the pitchy darkness, the messenger encounters him, and running full tilt against him, knocks the bunch of keys into the mud.
He looked at Mandleco with immense disdain, gave a pert tilt of his head and surveyed the room with a grimace of distaste.
I resolved, however, another time, never to tilt with a French lady in compliment.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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