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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tilt1 /tɪlt/USA pronunciation v. - to (cause to) lean, slant, or incline: [no object]The room tilted during the earthquake.[~ + object]He tilted his head to one side.
- to charge or attack with a lance or the like, as between knights on horseback:[no object* (~ + at + object)]The two knights tilted at each other and came together with a tremendous crash.
n. [countable] - an act or instance of tilting.
- the state of being tilted;
a sloping position.
Idioms- Idioms (at) full tilt, at greatest speed;
with great energy:The company started manufacturing the gadgets at full tilt. - Idioms tilt at windmills, to struggle against imaginary opponents.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tilt1 (tilt),USA pronunciation v.t. - to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
- to rush at or charge, as in a joust.
- to hold poised for attack, as a lance.
- Photographyto move (a camera) up or down on its vertical axis for photographing or televising a moving character, object, or the like.
v.i. - to move into or assume a sloping position or direction.
- to strike, thrust, or charge with a lance or the like (usually fol. by at).
- to engage in a joust, tournament, or similar contest.
- Photography(of a camera) to move on its vertical axis:The camera tilts downward for an overhead shot.
- to incline in opinion, feeling, etc.;
lean:She's tilting toward the other candidate this year. - tilt at windmills, to contend against imaginary opponents or injustices. Also, fight with windmills.
n. - an act or instance of tilting.
- the state of being tilted;
a sloping position. - a slope.
- a joust or any other contest.
- a dispute;
controversy. - a thrust of a weapon, as at a tilt or joust.
- Surveying, Photography(in aerial photography) the angle formed by the direction of aim of a camera and a perpendicular to the surface of the earth.
- (at) full tilt. See full tilt.
- Scandinavian; compare dialect, dialectal Norwegian tylta to tiptoe, tylten unsteady; akin to Old English tealt unsteady, tealtian to totter, amble, Middle Dutch touteren to sway
- Middle English tylten to upset, tumble 1300–50
- a cover of coarse cloth, canvas, etc., as for a wagon.
- an awning.
v.t. - to furnish with a tilt.
- 1400–50; late Middle English, variant of tild, Old English teld; cognate with German Zelt tent, Old Norse tjald tent, curtain
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