Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A canopy or an awning for a boat, wagon, or cart.
  • transitive verb To cover (a vehicle) with a canopy or an awning.
  • intransitive verb To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: synonym: slant.
  • intransitive verb To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another.
  • intransitive verb To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.
  • intransitive verb To charge (an opponent); attack.
  • intransitive verb To forge with a tilt hammer.
  • intransitive verb To slope; incline.
  • intransitive verb To have a preference, favor, or be inclined toward something.
  • intransitive verb To be advantageous to one side over another, as in a dispute.
  • intransitive verb To fight with lances; joust.
  • intransitive verb To engage in a combat or struggle; fight.
  • noun The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.
  • noun An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant.
  • noun A sloping surface, as of the ground.
  • noun A tendency to favor one side in a dispute.
  • noun A preference, inclination, or bias.
  • noun A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.
  • noun A thrust or blow with a lance.
  • noun A combat, especially a verbal one; a debate.
  • noun A tilt hammer.
  • idiom (at full tilt) At full speed.
  • idiom (on tilt) In a reckless manner, especially playing poker recklessly after experiencing bad or good luck.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In seismology, to tip; incline from the vertical as the result of a movement of the earth's crust.
  • noun In seismology, that component of an earth-tremor which throws upright objects out of the vertical plane.
  • noun A see-saw; a plank tilting on a narrow support in the middle.
  • noun One of the small log-huts of the Labrador hunters.
  • To totter; tumble; fall; be overthrown.
  • To move unsteadily; toss.
  • To heel over; lean forward, back, or to one side; assume a sloping position or direction.
  • To charge with the lance; join in a tilting contest, or tilt; make rushing thrusts in or as in combat or the tourney; rush with poised weapon; fight; contend; rush.
  • To rush; charge; burst into a place.
  • To incline; cause to heel over; give a slope to; raise one end of: as, to tilt a barrel or cask in order to facilitate the emptying of it; to tilt a table.
  • To raise or hold poised in preparation for attack.
  • To attack with a lance or spear in the exercise called the tilt.
  • To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt: as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
  • noun A covering of some thin and flexible stuff, as a tent-awning; especially, in modern use, the cloth cover of a wagon.
  • noun A sloping position; inclination forward, backward, or to one side: as, the tilt of a cask; to give a thing a tilt.
  • noun A thrust.
  • noun An exercise consisting in charging with the spear, sharp or blunted, whether against an antagonist or against a mark, such as the quintain.
  • noun plural The dregs of beer or ale; washings of beer-barrels.
  • noun A tilt-hammer.
  • noun A mechanical device for fishing through an opening in the ice.
  • noun A pier, built of brush and stone, on which fishermen unload and dress their fish.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English telte, tent, from Old English teld.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English tilten, to cause to fall, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English telt, from Old English teld ("tent"), influenced by Danish telt (, from Middle Low German telt), or directly from Middle Low German. Cognates include German Zelt ("tent"), Old Norse tjald ("tent") ( > archaic Danish tjæld ("tent")). More at teld.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Old English tyltan "to be unsteady"; Middle English tilte. Cognate with Icelandic tölt ("an ambling place"). The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590, the intransitive use appears 1620.

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Examples

  • Tipping in 2016, coverage of the regional finals will be split by CBS and Turner with the Final Four and the title tilt, alternating every year between CBS and TBS.

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  • Tipping in 2016, coverage of the regional finals will be split by CBS and Turner with the Final Four and the title tilt, alternating every year between CBS and Turner's TBS.

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  • The Rangers are hoping for a return to the state championship game after losing in the title tilt in 2009.

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  • Starting in 2016, the regional finals will be split by CBS and Turner, and the Final Four and the title tilt will alternate yearly between CBS and Turner's TBS.

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  • The Rangers are hoping for a return to the state championship game after losing in the title tilt in 2009.

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  • But the biggest rival in his path could be triple major winner Harrington who opens his title tilt against India's Jeev Milkha Singh.

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  • Tipping in 2016, coverage of the regional finals will be split by CBS and Turner with the Final Four and the title tilt, alternating every year between CBS and Turner's TBS.

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  • Before the title tilt, Summit plays at St. Mary's Academy today at 4: 15 p.m. in a nonconference match.

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  • Tipping in 2016, coverage of the regional finals will be split by CBS and Turner with the Final Four and the title tilt, alternating every year between CBS and Turner's TBS.

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  • They advanced to the York Region junior girls 'basketball championships before settling for second place after falling to Mazo de la Roche Public School (Newmarket) 23-16 in the title tilt played in Aurora.

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  • He began to learn a strange code that members used to compare their characteristics: IPDs (interpupillary distance, the gap between the eyes); canthal tilt (the angles of the eyes); mewing (a tongue exercise that supposedly improves the shape of the jaw).

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  • Newfoundland English: "Tilts were temporary wooden structures, constructed with vertical log walls and log roofs covered by birch rinds and sods, often built by migratory fishers before permanent settlements were established." Tilts were "where fishermen used to tilt, that is, to head, split, and salt their fish," or else "the mode of living (i.e. in tilts) while so occupied." from Robert Mellin, Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

    December 9, 2007