Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- 2noun
The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
- 3noun
A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
- 4transitive verb
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- 5transitive verb
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
- 6transitive verb
To point or thrust, as a lance.
- 7transitive verb
To point or thrust a weapon at.
- 8transitive verb
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
- 9intransitive 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.
- 10intransitive verb
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
- 11noun
A thrust, as with a lance.
- 12noun
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
- 13noun
See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
- 14noun
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
- 15noun
pitching dangerously to one side
- 16noun
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
- 17noun
a slight but noticeable partiality
"the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
- 18noun
a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
"they were involved in a violent argument"
- 19noun
a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
Synonyms
- 20verb
charge with a tilt
- 21verb
heel over
"The tower is tilting"
"The ceiling is slanting"
- 22verb
move sideways or in an unsteady way
"The ship careened out of control"
- 23verb
to incline or bend from a vertical position
"She leaned over the banister"
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