See Also: Head Upright Tilt Test (HUT, tilt table test, head-up tilt test)(health)
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On Tilt(casino)
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On Tilt - Poker(gambling)
tilt 2, noun(dictionary)

tilt(3) (iou)



tilt verb1. LME.
[Perh. repr. Old English form rel. to tealt unsteady (whence tealtian totter), or of Scandinavian origin (cf. Norwegian tylten unsteady, Swedish tulta totter). Branch III is from TILT noun2, branch IV from TILT-HAMMER.]
I. verb trans. Cause to fall; push over, throw down; overthrow, overturn. LME-L16.
verb intrans. Fall over, tumble; be overthrown. Only in LME.
verb intrans. Move unsteadily up and down; esp. (of waves or a ship at sea) pitch. L16.
II.
a. verb trans. & intrans. (Cause to) lean from the vertical or incline from the horizontal; move into a slanted position, slope; tip up. Also (fig.), incline towards a particular opinion. L16.
Aldous Huxley Leaning backwards, his chair tilted on its hind legs. I. Asimov The desk top tilted to an angle of forty-five degrees. F. King She tilted her head back to gaze up at the..sky. New Yorker He is..tilting towards a new economic course.
b. verb trans. Pour or empty out (the contents of a container); cause (contents) to flow to one side by tipping the container. E17.
A. Hollinghurst I tilted out the rest of the champagne.
verb trans. Cinematography & Television. Move (a camera) in a vertical plane. E20.
III.
verb intrans.
a. Hist. Engage in a tilt or joust. L16.
b. Engage in a contest, combat, or dispute (with); strike at with a weapon; argue against. L16.
tilt at windmills: see WINDMILL noun 1.
New Yorker She was..tilting against..what the Eurocrats..were proposing.
c. Charge into a place or at a person; run against, rush or burst in, through, etc. M19.
verb trans.
a. Drive or thrust with violence; rush at, charge. L16.
b. Poise (a lance) for a thrust. E18.
IV.
verb trans. Forge or work with a tilt-hammer. E19.
Phrases: tilting fillet a wedge-shaped slip of wood placed under the front edge of the first or lowest course of slates in a roof, to give that course the same inclination as in the courses above. tilting furnace a furnace with a tilting mechanism for pouring. tilting rotor Aeronautics a rotor which may be tilted to function as a propeller during cruising flight.
Comb.: tilt-up noun & adjective (a) noun (US) = PEETWEET; (b) adjective that tilts up; tip-up.
tiltable adjective M20.