Tilt Definition

tĭlt
tilted, tilting, tilts
verb
tilted, tilting, tilts
To cause to slope or slant; tip.
Webster's New World

To poise or thrust one's lance, or to charge (at one's opponent), in a tilt.

Webster's New World
To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another.
A development that tilted the balance of trade in their favor.
American Heritage
To poise or thrust (a lance) in or as in a tilt.
Webster's New World
To take part in a tilt, or joust.
Webster's New World
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noun
tilts
Any spirited contest, contention, dispute, etc. between persons.
Webster's New World
A sloping surface, as of the ground.
American Heritage
The condition or angle of being tilted; slope or slant.
Webster's New World
A tendency to favor one side in a dispute.
The court's tilt toward conservative rulings.
American Heritage
A medieval contest in which two armed horsemen thrust with lances in an attempt to unseat each other; joust.
Webster's New World
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idiom
at full tilt
  • At full speed:

    a tank moving at full tilt.

American Heritage
on tilt
  • In a reckless manner, especially playing poker recklessly after experiencing bad or good luck.
American Heritage
(at) full tilt
  • at full speed or with the greatest force or energy
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tilt

Noun

Singular:
tilt
Plural:
tilts

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Tilt

Origin of Tilt

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English telt, from Old English teld (“tent"), from Middle Low German telt, perhaps via or influenced by Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent"), Old Norse tjald (“tent") (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent")). More at teld.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English tilten to cause to fall perhaps of Scandinavian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English telte tent from Old English teld

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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