tilt

• IPA^(key): /tɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

From Middle English tilte, from Old English tyltan (“to be unsteady”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling place”). The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620.

tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)

1. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant. [1590]

   Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. [1590]
   • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet act III, scene I

     He tilts / With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.

   • Tennyson

     But in this tournament can no man tilt.

3. (intransitive) To be at an angle. [1620]
   • Grew

     The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     “Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.

4. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 52-54

     I say I quarrell’d with you;

     We did not tilt each other, — that’s a blessing, —

     Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head!

5. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
   • J. Philips

     Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

   to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

7. (poker, video games) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).

• slope
• incline
• slant

• (photography): pan, cant

tilt (plural tilts)

1. A slope or inclination.
2. A jousting contest. (countable) [1510]
3. A thrust, as with a lance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

4. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this
5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
   • 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport‎:

     City will now make the Premier League an even bigger priority, while regrouping and planning again for what they hope will be another tilt at the Champions League next season.

6. A tilt hammer.
7. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

From Middle English telt, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Middle Low German telt,[1] perhaps via or influenced by Danish telt.[2] Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.

tilt (plural tilts)

1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. [1450]
2. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Denham to this entry?)

tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)

1. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

• at full tilt
• atilt
• on tilt
• tilt at windmills

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• Rhymes: -ɪlt

tilt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of tillen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of tillen

• IPA^(key): [ˈtilt]

tilt

1. (transitive) to forbid, prohibit

(With verbal prefixes):

• betilt
• eltilt
• kitilt
• letilt
• megtilt

• tilos
• tiltás
• tiltott