tilt
41tilt — verb 1》 move into a sloping position. ↘move (a camera) in a vertical plane. 2》 (tilt at) historical (in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon. ↘(tilt with) archaic engage in a contest with. noun 1》 a tilting position or… …
42tilt — 1 verb 1 (I, T) to move or make something move into a position where one side is higher than the other: The table tilted suddenly, spilling all the drinks. 2 (T) to move your head or chin upwards or to the side: Jodi tilted her head and looked… …
43tilt — Synonyms and related words: Olympic games, Olympics, a outrance, altercation, angle, angularity, argument, ascend, attack, bandy with, bank, battle, battle it out, bout, bowl, box, brawl, broil, bump heads, cant, capsize, careen, cast, catapult,… …
44tilt — I. n. 1. Covering overhead, tent. 2. Awning, canopy. 3. Thrust, pass, allonge, lunge. 4. Encounter, combat (as a practice of arms). joust. 5. Slant (as of a barrel for discharging a liquor), slope, inclination, cant. 6. Tilt hammer …
45tilt — I v 1. lean, tip, list, cant, heel, Naut. careen, lurch; slope, slant, oblique, fall obliquely, skew, angle, bevel, pitch, grade, bank; ascend, rise; descend, drop or drop off, dip, sag, sink. 2.Usu. tilt at rush at, charge; oppose, contest,… …
46Tilt — Barrier separating knightly jousters designed to prevent converging horses from colliding with each other. The word came by transference to apply to the sport of jousting; also the place became the tilt yard. The use of a barrier emerged when… …
47tilt — [14] Tilt originally meant ‘fall over’; the sense ‘slant’ is not recorded before the 16th century. The word is probably descended from an unrecorded Old English *tyltan, whose ultimate source would have been the prehistoric Germanic adjective… …
48tilt — verb you ll have to tilt the sofa to fit it through the door at full tilt Syn: slope, tip, lean, list, bank, slant, incline, pitch, cant, angle …
49tilt — 1. verb the ground seemed to tilt Syn: slope, tip, lean, list, bank, slant, incline, pitch, cant, angle 2. noun a tilt of some 45° Syn: slope, list, camber, gradient …
50tilt — TV Vertical camcorder pivot (“tilt up” or “tilt down”) on a single axis, as on a tripod. Tilting up makes the subject appear to move from the top to the bottom of the screen. Tilting down makes the subject appear to move from the bottom to the… …
