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Tilt (verb)
To slope or incline (something); to slant. 1590
“Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.”
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Tilt (verb)
To charge (at someone) with a lance. 1590
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Tilt (verb)
To be at an angle. 1620
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Tilt (verb)
To point or thrust a weapon at.
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Tilt (verb)
To point or thrust (a weapon).
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Tilt (verb)
To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
“to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile”
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Tilt (verb)
To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
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Tilt (verb)
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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Tilt (noun)
A slope or inclination.
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Tilt (noun)
A jousting contest. 1510
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Tilt (noun)
A thrust, as with a lance.
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Tilt (noun)
The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this
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Tilt (noun)
An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
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Tilt (noun)
A tilt hammer.
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Tilt (noun)
The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
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Tilt (noun)
A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. 1450
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Tilt (noun)
Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
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Skew (adjective)
Neither intersecting nor parallel.
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Skew (adjective)
Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line.
“a skew arch”
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Skew (verb)
To bias or distort in a particular direction.
“A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.”
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Skew (verb)
To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
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Skew (verb)
To throw or hurl obliquely.
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Skew (verb)
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
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Skew (verb)
To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
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Skew (verb)
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
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Skew (noun)
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
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Skew (noun)
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
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Skew (noun)
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
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Skew (adverb)
Awry; obliquely; askew.
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Tilt (verb)
move or cause to move into a sloping position
“the floor tilted slightly”
“he tilted his head to one side”
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Tilt (verb)
change or cause to change in favour of one person or thing as opposed to another
“the balance of industrial power tilted towards the workers”
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Tilt (verb)
move (a camera) in a vertical plane
“tilting the camera causes convergence of upright lines”
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Tilt (verb)
(in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon
“the lonely hero tilting at the system”
“he tilts at his prey”
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Tilt (verb)
engage in a contest with
“I resolved never to tilt with a French lady in compliment”
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Tilt (noun)
a sloping position or movement
“the tilt of her head”
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Tilt (noun)
an upwards or downwards pivoting movement of a camera
“pans and tilts”
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Tilt (noun)
an inclination or bias
“the paper’s tilt towards the United States”
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Tilt (noun)
a combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust.
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Tilt (noun)
an attempt at winning (something) or defeating (someone)
“a tilt at the European Cup”
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Tilt (noun)
a small hut in a forest.