Definitions of tilt [ɪlt]

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Definition of 'tilt'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) tilt
to cause to lean, incline, or slant.

2.  tilt
to rush at or charge, as in a joust.

3.  tilt
to hold poised for attack, as a lance.

4. (v.i.) tilt
to assume a sloping position or direction.

5.  tilt
to strike, thrust, or charge with a lance or the like (usu. fol. by at).

6.  tilt
to engage in a joust, tournament, or similar contest.

7.  tilt
to incline in opinion, feeling, etc.; lean.

8. (n.) tilt
an act or instance of tilting.

9.  tilt
a sloping position.

10.  tilt
an incline or slope.

11.  tilt
a joust or similar contest.

12.  tilt
a dispute; controversy.

13.  tilt
a thrust of a weapon, as at a joust.

14. (n.) tilt
a cover of coarse cloth, canvas, etc., as for a wagon.

15.  tilt
an awning.

16. (v.t.) tilt
to furnish with a tilt.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME, alter. of tild, OE teld, c. OHG zelt tent, ON tjald tent, curtain)

Definition of 'tilt'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) joust, tilt
a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

2. (noun) controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing
a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
"they were involved in a violent argument"

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

4. (noun) tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning
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"

5. (verb) rock, careen, sway, tilt
pitching dangerously to one side

6. (verb) lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle
to incline or bend from a vertical position
"She leaned over the banister"

7. (verb) cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
heel over
"The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

8. (verb) careen, wobble, shift, tilt
move sideways or in an unsteady way
"The ship careened out of control"

9. (verb) tilt
charge with a tilt

Definition of 'tilt'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) tilt
to lean or make lean so that one end or side is higher
The train tilts as it goes around the bends.

Definition of 'tilt'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tilt
a covering overhead; especially, a tent

2. (noun) tilt
the cloth covering of a cart or a wagon

3. (noun) tilt
a cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat

4. (noun) tilt
a thrust, as with a lance

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

6. (noun) tilt
see Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary

7. (noun) tilt
inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask

8. (verb) tilt
to cover with a tilt, or awning

9. (verb) tilt
to incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel

10. (verb) tilt
to point or thrust, as a lance

11. (verb) tilt
to point or thrust a weapon at

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

13. (verb) tilt
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

14. (verb) tilt
to lean; to fall partly over; to tip

Translation of 'tilt'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go or put (something) into a sloping or slanting position He tilted his chair backwards; The lamp tilted and fell.
Afrikaans: kantel	Arabic: يَميل، يُمَيِّل	Bulgarian: накланям (се)
Brazilian: inclinar(-se)	Czech: naklonit (se)	German: (sich) neigen
Danish: vippe; vælte	Greek: γέρν	Spanish: inclinar, ladear
Estonian: kallutama, kalduma	Farsi: کج کردن	Finnish: kallistua
French: pencher	Hebrew: לְהַטוֹת	Hindi: झुकना
Croatian: nagnuti, naheriti	Hungarian: dől	Indonesian: memiringkan
Icelandic: halla	Italian: inclinarsi	Japanese: 傾ける
Korean: 기울이다	Lithuanian: pakreipti, pasvirti	Latvian: noliekt; sasvērt; noliekt
Malay: menyandarkan; menyenget	Dutch: (doen) kantelen	Norwegian: vippe, sette i skråstilli
Polish: przechylać	Persian: کج کردن	Pashto: كږول: كږېدل: په نېزه جنګ
Portuguese: inclinar(-se)	Romanian: a (se)înclina	Russian: наклонять(ся)
Slovak: nakloniť (sa)	Slovenian: nagniti (se)	Serbian: prevrnuti se
Swedish: luta, vippa, välta	Thai: เอียง	Turkish: eğmek, yana yatmak
Taiwanese: 使傾斜	Ukrainian: нахиляти; відкидати	Urdu: جھکانا، ٹيڑھا کرنا
Vietnamese: tròng trành	Chinese: 使倾斜
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