Tilt

[tɪlt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) a slight but noticeable partiality; 'the court's tilt toward conservative rulings'.

(verb.) charge with a tilt.

杰勒德整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

(n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

(n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

(v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

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

(v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.

(v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.

(v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

(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.

(v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

(n.) A thrust, as with a lance.

(n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

(n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

(n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

艾拉編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Awning, canopy.[2]. Thrust, pass, allonge, lunge.[3]. Encounter, combat (as a practice of arms), joust.[4]. Slant (as of a barrel for discharging a liquor), slope, inclination.

v. a. [1]. Slant, slope.[2]. Forge (with a tilt-hammer), hammer.

v. n. [1]. Joust, rush (as in combat), make a rush, make a tilt.[2]. Loan, incline, tip.

本杰明錄入

解釋/意思:

n. the canvas covering of a cart or wagon: an awning in a boat.—v.t. to cover with an awning.

v.i. to ride against another and thrust with a lance: to thrust or fight with a lance or rapier: to fall into a sloping posture to heel over.—v.t. to point or thrust with as a lance: to slant: to raise one end of: to forge with a tilt-hammer.—n. a thrust: in the Middle Ages an exercise in which combatants rode against each other with lances: inclination forward dip slant.—ns. Tilt′er; Tilt′-hamm′er a heavy hammer used in ironworks which is tilted or lifted by means of projections on the axis of a wheel; Tilt′ing; Tilt′-yard a place for tilting.

布赖恩特編輯