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verb (used with object)
1.
to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
2.
to rush at or charge, as in a joust.
3.
to hold poised for attack, as a lance.
4.
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)
5.
to move into or assume a sloping position or direction.
6.
to strike, thrust, or charge with a lance or the like (usually followed by at).
7.
to engage in a joust, tournament, or similar contest.
8.
(of a camera) to move on its vertical axis: The camera tilts downward for an overhead shot.
9.
to incline in opinion, feeling, etc.; lean: She's tilting toward the other candidate this year.
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Tilting
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
noun
Idioms10.
an act or instance of tilting.
11.
the state of being tilted; a sloping position.
12.
a slope.
13.
a joust or any other contest.
14.
EXPANDa dispute; controversy.
15.
a thrust of a weapon, as at a tilt or joust.
16.
COLLAPSE(in aerial photography) the angle formed by the direction of aim of a camera and a perpendicular to the surface of the earth.
17.
(at) full tilt. full tilt.
18.
tilt at windmills, to contend against imaginary opponents or injustices. Also, fight with windmills.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English tylten to upset, tumble < Scandinavian; compare dialectal Norwegian tylta to tiptoe, tylten unsteady; akin to Old English tealt unsteady, tealtian to totter, amble, Middle Dutch touteren to sway
1300–50; Middle English tylten to upset, tumble < Scandinavian; compare dialectal Norwegian tylta to tiptoe, tylten unsteady; akin to Old English tealt unsteady, tealtian to totter, amble, Middle Dutch touteren to sway
Related forms
tilt·a·ble, adjective
tilt·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
tilt
"a joust, a combat," 1511, perhaps from tilt (v.) on the notion of "to lean" into an attack, but the word originally seems to have been the name of the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt in an earlier meaning "covering of coarse cloth,
EXPANDan awning" (c.1440), which is probably from tilt (v.), but perhaps related to or influenced by tent, or it may be from a Gmc. source akin to O.E. beteldan "to cover." The verb is recorded from 1595. Hence, also full tilt (c.1600).
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