Tilt



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• v. ( 使) 倾斜; n.倾斜, 斜坡
• ［英］ v. ( 使) 倾斜 ( slant) ; n.倾斜, 斜坡 ( a sloping surface)
• ［记］ 参考:stilt ( 高跷)
• ［同］ 参考: stilt ( 高跷) 派生词: tilted （adj. 倾斜的）
• ［例］ The aircraft tilted its wings.

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English teld, telte tent, canopy, from Old English teld; akin to Old High German zelt tent
• Date: 15th century
• a canopy for a wagon, boat, or stall

II. transitive verb

• Date: 15th century
• to cover or provide with a tilt

III. noun

• Etymology: ［sup］4［/sup］tilt
• Date: 1507
• 1.
  • a. a contest on horseback in which two combatants charging with lances or similar weapons try to unhorse each other ; joust
  • b. a tournament of tilts
• 2.
  • a. dispute, contention
  • b. speed — used in the phrase full tilt
• 3.
  • a. the act of tilting ; the state or position of being tilted
  • b. a sloping surface
  • c. slant, bias <a tilt toward military involvement>
• 4. any of various contests resembling or suggesting tilting with lances
• ? tilt adjective

IV. verb

• Etymology: Middle English tulten, tilten to fall over, cause to fall, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan, akin to Old English tealt unstable, tealtian to totter
• Date: 1594
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cause to have an inclination
  • 2.
    • a. to point or thrust in or as if in a tilt <tilt a lance>
    • b. to charge against <tilt an adversary>
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to move or shift so as to lean or incline ; slant
    • b. to incline, tend, or become drawn toward an opinion, course of action, or one side of a controversy
  • 2.
    • a. to engage in a combat with lances ; joust
    • b. to make an impetuous attack <tilt at social evils>
• ? tiltable adjective
• ? tilter noun

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