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Tilt

noun

1.

A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances. Synonym: joust.

2.

A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation.

3.

A slight but noticeable partiality.

4.

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical. Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list. "The ship developed a list to starboard" , "He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

5.

Pitching dangerously to one side. Synonyms: careen, rock, sway.

verb

(past & past part. tilted; pres. part. tilting)

1.

To incline or bend from a vertical position. Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip.

2.

Heel over. Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, slant. "The ceiling is slanting"

3.

Move sideways or in an unsteady way. Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble.

4.

Charge with a tilt.

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"Tilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... carriage was a sliding one on wheels, which ran very easily on a brass runner; and as it was probably not quite shut, or at any rate not secured in any way, it was an easy matter for the lion to thrust in a paw and shove it open. But owing to the tilt of the carriage and to his great extra weight on the one side, the door slid to and snapped into the lock the moment he got his body right in, thus leaving him shut up with the three ...

— The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures • J. H. Patterson

... scant knowledge, but the one I know was wont to cherish the memory of things his love had said and how she had said them; with what a pretty tilt to her chin, with what a daring shyness of the eyes, with what a fine colour and impetuous audacity she had done this or looked that. He was wont in advance to plan out conversations, to decide that he would tell her some odd brain fancy and watch her while he told ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... painting in oils for the last year or two," and nose and chin indulge in an extra tilt. "I dare say I could ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... the street a man—an ordinary servant, to judge from his appearance—ran into him full tilt, and when they recoiled from the impact the fellow with a muttered curse raised his fist and struck young Weldon a powerful blow. Reeling backward, a natural anger seized Arthur, who was inclined to be hot-headed, and he also struck out with his fists, never pausing ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne

... long time no one had spoken. Bet Baxter was watching a seagull rising, wheeling, soaring and settling again on the water, her blue eyes glowing as she followed the long sweeping lines of its flight and the tilt of its wings. ...

— The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan • Lizette M. Edholm

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