• IPA: /tɪlt/

tilt (tilts, present participle tilting; past and past participle tilted)

1. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant. [1590]

   Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. [1590]
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 3, scene 1]:

     He tilts / With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     But in this tournament can no man tilt.

3. (intransitive) To be at an angle. [1620]

   • The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.

4. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 52-54

     I say I quarrell’d with you;

     We did not tilt each other, — that’s a blessing, —

     Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head!

5. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).

   • Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

   to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

7. (poker, video games) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

• slope
• incline
• slant

• German: neigen, kippen
• Italian: pendere, inclinare, piegare
• Portuguese: inclinar
• Russian: наклоня́ть
• Spanish: ladear, ladearse, inclinar

tilt (plural tilts)

1. A slope or inclination.
2. A jousting contest. (countable) [1510]
3. A thrust, as with a lance.
4. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this
5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
6. A tilt hammer.
7. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

• French: inclinaison
• Italian: inclinazione, pendenza
• Portuguese: inclinação
• Spanish: inclinación

tilt (plural tilts)

1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. [1450]
2. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

tilt (tilts, present participle tilting; past and past participle tilted)

1. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.