[
UK
/tˈɪlt/
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[ US /ˈtɪɫt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɪɫt/ ]
NOUN
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the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
he walked with a heavy inclination to the right
the tower had a pronounced tilt
the ship developed a list to starboard - pitching dangerously to one side
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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
they were involved in a violent argument - a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
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a slight but noticeable partiality
the court's tilt toward conservative rulings
VERB
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to incline or bend from a vertical position
She leaned over the banister -
move sideways or in an unsteady way
The ship careened out of control - charge with a tilt
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heel over
The tower is tilting
The ceiling is slanting
How To Use tilt In A Sentence
- Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened. NPR Topics: News
- The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above; but as the former are pernicious, and the latter innocent and even necessary, this is the reason of the very different reception they meet with from the world. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
- Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
- Sometimes when you think the sky is about to fall down, you might be standing tilted!
- A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
- Due to their design, these slewing rings can transmit radial and axial loads as well as tilting moments.
- You stay in simple but comfortable thatched wooden houses, built on stilts. Times, Sunday Times
- Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
- The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
- And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.