Definitions for tilt

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IPA: /tɪlt/

Tilt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in tilt (iltt).

Definitions for tilt

noun

1. an act or instance of tilting.
2. the state of being tilted; a sloping position.
3. a slope.
4. a joust or any other contest.
5. a dispute; controversy.
6. a thrust of a weapon, as at a tilt or joust.
7. (in aerial photography) the angle formed by the direction of aim of a camera and a perpendicular to the surface of the earth.
8. a cover of coarse cloth, canvas, etc., as for a wagon.
9. an awning.

Idioms

1. (at) full tilt. full tilt.
2. tilt at windmills, to contend against imaginary opponents or injustices. Also, fight with windmills.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
2. to rush at or charge, as in a joust.
3. to hold poised for attack, as a lance.
4. to move (a camera) up or down on its vertical axis for photographing or televising a moving character, object, or the like.
5. to furnish with a tilt.

verb (used without object)

1. to move into or assume a sloping position or direction.
2. to strike, thrust, or charge with a lance or the like (usually followed by at).
3. to engage in a joust, tournament, or similar contest.
4. (of a camera) to move on its vertical axis:
5. to incline in opinion, feeling, etc.; lean:

Origin of tilt

1300-50; Middle English tylten to upset, tumble Scandinavian; compare dialectal Norwegian tylta to tiptoe, tylten unsteady; akin to Old English tealt unsteady, tealtian to totter, amble, Midd

Examples for tilt

When out and about, if we feel threatened, as we always do, we tilt our heads back and cry out, “ALL THE SINGLE LADIES!”

I understand that all right, but I am still in the dark as to what is causing this increase of tilt.

Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.

Yet he can tilt or play his part at hand-strokes as merrily as ever.

The tilt itself, however, had not been burned, and was otherwise undisturbed.

As anticipated, the tilt had been rifled of its contents, chiefly flour and pork.

But administration officials and panel members say he in no way sought to tilt the outcome in one direction or the other.

This tilt towards of the financial elites, as Elizabeth Warren has noted, occurred during both the Bush and Obama Administrations.

There was a momentous promise in his gravity, a hint of catastrophe in the tilt of his head.

In most places the local social establishment that dictates the agenda will tilt right.