tilt
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1. tilt - Noun
2. tilt - Verb
Meaning
A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
To point or thrust, as a lance.
To point or thrust a weapon at.
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
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.
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
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Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.
Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.