TILT
\tˈɪlt], \tˈɪlt], \t_ˈɪ_l_t]\
Definitions of TILT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
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heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
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a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
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charge with a tilt
By Princeton University
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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
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heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
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a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
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charge with a tilt, as in a joust
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
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The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
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A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
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To point or thrust, as a lance.
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To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
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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.
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To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
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A thrust, as with a lance.
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A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
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See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
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Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
By Oddity Software
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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
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The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
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A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
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To point or thrust, as a lance.
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To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
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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.
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To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
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A thrust, as with a lance.
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A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
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Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
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See hammer, in the Vocabulary.
By Noah Webster.
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A thrust, as with a lance.
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TILTER.
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To tip; slant; lean.
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To aim, as a lance; contend with the lance.
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An inclination; slant.
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A tournanment.
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To furnish with an awning.
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A canvas cover, as for a boat or wagon.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A tent; the cloth covering of a wagon, boat, etc.; awning; a slanting incline; a tournament.
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To cover with an awning or tent; to point or thrust as a lance; to raise on end; to lean or incline; as to tilt a chair back.
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To lean or tip; to ride on horseback and thrust with a lance; to charge ahead.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The canvas covering of a cart or wagon: an awning in a boat.
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To cover with an awning.
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To ride against another and thrust with a lance: to thrust or fight with a lance or rapier: to fall into a sloping posture.
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To point or thrust with, as a lance: to slant: to raise one end of: to forge with a tilt-hammer.
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A thrust: in the middle ages, an exercise in which combatants rode against each other with lances: inclination forward.
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TILTER.
By Daniel Lyons
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A thrust; tourney; inclination forward; awning or cover.
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To ride against each other and thrust with lances; to thrust with a lance; to slope or incline; lean.
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To slope; slant; raise one end of; forge.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Icelandic, German, Anglo-Saxon] A covering overhead; a tent;-the cloth covering of a cart or waggon ;-a small awning extended over the stern-sheets of a boat.
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n. A thrust, as with a lance ;-a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances ; a tournament ;-a tilt-hammer ;-inclination forward.
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