tilt

Definitions of tilt in various dictionaries:

noun - a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

noun - a contentious speech act

noun - a slight but noticeable partiality

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

noun - pitching dangerously to one side

verb - to incline or bend from a vertical position

verb - heel over

verb - move sideways or in an unsteady way

verb - charge with a tilt

To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: tilt a soup bowl; tilt a chair backward.

To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.

To charge (an opponent); attack.

To forge with a tilt hammer.

To slope; incline.

To favor one side over another in a dispute; lean: “His views tilt unmistakably to the Arab position” (William Safire).

To fight with lances; joust.

To engage in a combat or struggle; fight: tilting at injustices.

The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.

An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant: adj usting the tilt of a writing table.

A sloping surface, as of the ground.

A tendency to favor one side in a dispute: the court’s tilt toward conservative rulings.

An implicit preference; a bias: “pitilessly illuminates the inaccuracies and tilts of the press” (Nat Hentoff).

A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.

A thrust or blow with a lance.

A combat, especially a verb al one; a debate.

A tilt hammer.

A canopy or an awning for a boat, wagon, or cart.

adj - to cause to slant [v -ED, -ING, -S] : TILTABLE