What does tilt mean?

Definitions for tilt
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. joust, tiltnoun

    a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

  2. controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguingnoun

    a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

    "they were involved in a violent argument"

  3. tiltnoun

    a slight but noticeable partiality

    "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"

  4. tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaningnoun

    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. rock, careen, sway, tiltverb

    pitching dangerously to one side

  6. lean, tilt, tip, slant, angleverb

    to incline or bend from a vertical position

    "She leaned over the banister"

  7. cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitchverb

    heel over

    "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

  8. careen, wobble, shift, tiltverb

    move sideways or in an unsteady way

    "The ship careened out of control"

  9. tiltverb

    charge with a tilt

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. TILTnoun

    Etymology: tyld , Saxon.

    The roof of linnen
    Intended for a shelter!
    But the rain made an ass
    Of tilt and canvas,
    And the snow which you know is a melter. John Denham.

    It is a small vessel, like in proportion to a Gravesend tilt-boat. George Sandys.

    The rowing crew,
    To tempt a fare, clothe all their tilts in blue. John Gay.

    His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
    Are brazen images of canonized saints. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    He talks as familiarly of John of Gaunt, as if he had been sworn brother to him; and he never saw him but once in the tilt-yard, and then he broke his head. William Shakespeare, H. IV.

    Images representing the forms of Hercules, Apollo, and Diana, he placed in the tilt-yard at Constantinople. Richard Knolles.

    The spousals of Hippolite the queen,
    What tilts and tourneys at the feast were seen. Dryden.

    In tilts and tournaments the valiant strove,
    By glorious deeds to purchase Emma’s love. Matthew Prior.

    His majesty seldom dismissed the foreigner till he had entertained him with the slaughter of two or three of his liege subjects, whom he very dextrously put to death with the tilt of his lance. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 10.

  2. To Tiltverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Ajax interpos’d
    His sevenfold shield, and screen’d Laertes’ son,
    When the insulting Trojans urg’d him sore
    With tilted spears. Philips.

    Now horrid slaughter reigns,
    Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance,
    Careless of duty, and their native grounds
    Distain with kindred blood. Philips.

  3. To Tiltverb

    To describe races and games,
    Or tilting furniture, emblazon’d shields. John Milton.

    Friends all but even now; and then, but now ——
    Swords out and tilting one at other’s breasts,
    In opposition bloody. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    Scow’ring the watch grows out of fashion wit:
    Now we set up for tilting in the pit,
    Where ’tis agreed by bullies, chicken-hearted,
    To fright the ladies first, and then be parted. Dryden.

    It is not yet the fashion for women of quality to tilt. Collier.

    Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet
    To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet;
    I only wear it in a land of Hectors. Alexander Pope.

    Some say the spirits tilt so violently, that they make holes where they strike. Collier.

    The floating vessel swam
    Uplifted; and secure with beaked prow
    Rode tilting o’er the waves. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. xi.

    The fleet swift tilting o’er the surges flew,
    Till Grecian cliffs appear’d. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

    As the trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back, so from falling backward by those of the belly. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. b. i.

ChatGPT

  1. tilt

    Tilt refers to a state of being inclined or sloped, or a move or cause to move into a sloping position. It can also refer to a deviation from a normally vertical or horizontal position or orientation. In a broader sense, it can also indicate a tendency or bias towards a particular opinion or viewpoint.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tiltnoun

    a covering overhead; especially, a tent

  2. Tiltnoun

    the cloth covering of a cart or a wagon

  3. Tiltnoun

    a cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat

  4. Tiltverb

    to cover with a tilt, or awning

  5. Tiltverb

    to incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel

  6. Tiltverb

    to point or thrust, as a lance

  7. Tiltverb

    to point or thrust a weapon at

  8. Tiltverb

    to hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

  9. Tiltverb

    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

  10. Tiltverb

    to lean; to fall partly over; to tip

  11. Tiltnoun

    a thrust, as with a lance

  12. Tiltnoun

    a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament

  13. Tiltnoun

    see Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary

  14. Tiltnoun

    inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask

Wikidata

  1. Tilt

    Tilt was an American punk rock band from the East Bay, California, United States, formed in 1992. The group's debut studio album, Play Cell, was released through Lookout Records in 1993. They would soon after get signed to Fat Wreck Chords, which the rest of its albums were released through. The band consisted of Cinder Block, Jeffrey Bischoff, Pete Rypins, Vincent Camacho. Starting on February 15, 1994 at the Cattle Club in Sacramento CA and ending on April 6, 1994 in Vancouver Tilt supported Green Day on their Dookie tour. Tilt's song "Crying Jag" appears on the soundtrack for the film Glory Daze. Tilt broke up for a short time in 1996 but reunited in 1997 with Jimi Cheetah of Screw 32. They were scheduled to play a one-night-only reunion show on May 13, 2011 at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California but had to cancel because the bass player injured his arm needing surgery. So far the show has not been rescheduled. Cinder Block was also the lead singer for Retching Red and Fabulous Disaster.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tilt

    tilt, n. the canvas covering of a cart or wagon: an awning in a boat.—v.t. to cover with an awning. [A.S. teldteldan, to cover; cog. with Ger. zelt.]

  2. Tilt

    tilt, 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. [A.S. tealt, tottering; Ice. tölta, to trot; Ger. zelter.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. tilt

    A small canopy extended over the stern-sheets of a boat, supported by iron or wood work, to keep off rain, as an awning is used to keep off the sun.--To tilt. To lift up a little on one side or end of anything.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. tilt

    A thrust, or fight with rapiers; also, an old military game.

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  2. TILT

    What does TILT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TILT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TILT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tilt is ranked #76275 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tilt surname appeared 252 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tilt.

    95.6% or 241 total occurrences were White.
    3.1% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tilt in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tilt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of tilt in a Sentence

  1. James Versalovic:

    Taking these lessons to heart, we just pivoted in late December and just kept going forth full-tilt with a third dose and following these children during the trials.

  2. Colleague Miro Voellmy:

    Tracks are excellent for this use case because they have a very large footprint, which makes it near impossible to tilt, and they are also very smooth so it doesn't feel like you're driving up stairs, so it just feels like you're driving up a ramp because they're so flat and they adapt to the stair profile. So it doesn't matter if the stair is wooden or metal or glass, the tracks they grip and there's no danger of slipping.

  3. Noel Archard:

    The underlying constituents have more of a growth tilt, whereas in the old telecom world they were considered value stocks, it's a pretty significant change.

  4. Chaim Siegel:

    Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's (Musk is) sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right.

  5. Sal Guatieri:

    The slow but steady upward pressure on inflation could tilt a majority of policymakers to lift their suggested interest rate forecast, possibly penciling in two additional moves in the second half of the year after almost certainly raising rates tomorrow.

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