Tilt
[tɪlt]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Typed by Benjamin
Definition
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.
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Examples
- The earth seemed to tilt and sway, and a complete darkness was coming over his mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is not a tilt at a tournament we are going to behold, but a struggle about money, and food, and life. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I shall tilt to-morrow answered Athelstane, in the 'melee'; it is not worth while for me to arm myself to-day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Come under my tilt and let me tie it up. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- His conjecture was corroborated at Glen Tilt (and in the island of Arran). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I have left my shield in the tilt-yard, answered the Jester, as has been the fate of many a better knight than myself. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The chariots drove full tilt at the infantry mass and tried to break it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They made no noise of any kind, and most of them tilted their heads back and closed their eyes, entranced with a sort of devotional ecstacy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus admonished, Mr. Trotter raised the pot to his lips, and, by gentle and almost imperceptible degrees, tilted it into the air. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He has sewn up ever so many odalisques in sacks and tilted them into the Nile. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It had a reel to gather the grain to the cutter, and the grain platform was tilted to drop the gavel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Colonel Ross leaned back with his arms folded and his hat tilted over his eyes, while I listened with interest to the dialogue of the two detectives. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Making a stiff arm to the elbow, he poured the wine into his mouth, tilted it into his right cheek, as saying, 'What do you think of it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I saw by his tilting of the bottle that there was no great quantity left in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then he was half-conscious again, aware only of the strange tilting and sliding of the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Therefore the airship stops tilting and comes back to an even flight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He noted among other things that the tilting of a wing was sufficient to bring about a complete change of direction. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the house, the folding bed, tilting chair, carpet sweeper, and the piano. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He swallowed slowly, tilting up the bottle by little and little, and now he looked at me no more. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The old man's eye resting on the empty bottle, he takes it up, examines it, and slowly tilts it upside down. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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