TILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tilt mean? 

• TILT (noun)
  The noun TILT has 5 senses:

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

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

3. a slight but noticeable partiality

4. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical

5. pitching dangerously to one side

  Familiarity information: TILT used as a noun is common.

• TILT (verb)
  The verb TILT has 4 senses:

1. to incline or bend from a vertical position

2. heel over

3. move sideways or in an unsteady way

4. charge with a tilt

  Familiarity information: TILT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TILT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

joust; tilt

Hypernyms ("tilt" is a kind of...):

battle; struggle (an energetic attempt to achieve something)

Holonyms ("tilt" is a part of...):

tournament (a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize)

Derivation:

tilt (charge with a tilt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

arguing; argument; contention; contestation; controversy; disceptation; disputation; tilt

Context example:

they were involved in a violent argument

Hypernyms ("tilt" is a kind of...):

conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tilt"):

argle-bargle; argy-bargy (a verbal dispute; a wrangling argument)

firestorm (an outburst of controversy)

sparring (an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage)

polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))

fight (an intense verbal dispute)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A slight but noticeable partiality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

the court's tilt toward conservative rulings

Hypernyms ("tilt" is a kind of...):

partiality; partisanship (an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inclination; lean; leaning; list; tilt

Context example:

he walked with a heavy inclination to the right

Hypernyms ("tilt" is a kind of...):

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Derivation:

tilt (to incline or bend from a vertical position)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Pitching dangerously to one side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

careen; rock; sway; tilt

Hypernyms ("tilt" is a kind of...):

lurch; pitch; pitching (abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance))

Derivation:

tilt (heel over)

tilt (move sideways or in an unsteady way)

tilt (to incline or bend from a vertical position)

• TILT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tilt    ... he / she / it tilts   
Past simple: tilted   
Past participle: tilted   
-ing form: tilting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To incline or bend from a vertical position

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

angle; lean; slant; tilt; tip

Context example:

She leaned over the banister

Hypernyms (to "tilt" is one way to...):

bend; flex (form a curve)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tilt"):

incline; pitch; slope (be at an angle)

weather (cause to slope)

heel; list (tilt to one side)

lean back; recline (move the upper body backwards and down)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

tilt (pitching dangerously to one side)

tilt (the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heel over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cant; cant over; pitch; slant; tilt

Context example:

The ceiling is slanting

Hypernyms (to "tilt" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tilt"):

cock (tilt or slant to one side)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tilt (pitching dangerously to one side)

tilter (a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move sideways or in an unsteady way

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

careen; shift; tilt; wobble

Context example:

The ship careened out of control

Hypernyms (to "tilt" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

tilt (pitching dangerously to one side)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Charge with a tilt

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "tilt" is one way to...):

joust (joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

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

tilter (someone who engages in a tilt or joust)

 Context examples 

What name would it be as I should write up now, if there was a tilt here?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She glanced back at Dennin, but her eyes returned to the tilted plate.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was sitting beside her, quite beside her, and the boat seemed to tilt her toward him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

See that he hath a change if he come back hot from the tilting.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A solution or suspension taken orally and moved around the back of the throat by tilting the head back and forcing air from the lungs through the solution.

(Gargle Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

In turn, the study found nitric oxide deficiencies could underlie heart failure while tilting drug effects toward more harmful pathways and side effects.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Say ‘sir’ when you speak to a genelman,” said Belcher, and with a sudden tilt of the table he sent Berks flying almost into my uncle’s arms.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because of the very small tilt of the Moon's rotation axis, sunlight never reaches these regions.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

Summerlee had been so interested that he had stood unresisting while Challenger tilted his head into the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Base pairs are tilted to helix axis and displaced from axis and sugar pucker is C3'-endo (in RNA 2'-OH inhibits C2'-endo conformation).

(A-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)