tilt

tilt is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
2. noun. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. noun. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
4. transitive verb. To cover with a tilt, or awning.
5. transitive verb. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
6. transitive verb. To point or thrust, as a lance.
7. transitive verb. To point or thrust a weapon at.
8. transitive verb. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
9. intransitive verb. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
10. intransitive verb. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
11. noun. A thrust, as with a lance.
12. noun. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
13. noun. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
14. noun. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
15. noun. pitching dangerously to one side

    Synonyms: careen, rock, sway

16. noun. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical

    "the tower had a pronounced tilt"

    "the ship developed a list to starboard"

    Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list

17. noun. a slight but noticeable partiality

    "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"

18. noun. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

    "they were involved in a violent argument"

    Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation

19. noun. a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

    Synonyms: joust

20. verb. charge with a tilt
21. verb. heel over

    "The tower is tilting"

    "The ceiling is slanting"

    Synonyms: cant, pitch, slant

22. verb. move sideways or in an unsteady way

    "The ship careened out of control"

    Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble

23. verb. to incline or bend from a vertical position

    "She leaned over the banister"

    Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip

Synonyms

careen, rock, sway, inclination, lean, leaning, list, arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, joust, cant, pitch, slant, shift, wobble, angle, tip

Common word forms

tilts, tilted, tilter, tilting, tiltable

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