tilt
English
/tɪlt/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- (intransitive) To be at an angle.
- (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- (pinball) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tilte inherited from Old English tyltan (be unsteady).
Origin
Old English
tyltan
Gloss
be unsteady
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Tilt-A-Whirl English
- a English
- a-tilt English
- antitilt English
- atilt English
- overtilt English
- pretilt English
- retilt English
- rotor English
- tiltability English
- tiltable English
- tilter English
- tiltest English
- tilteth English
- tiltmeter English
- tiltrotor English
- tiltwing English
- tilty English
- tölt English
- untiltable English
- uptilt English
- whirl English
- wing English
- tiltata Finnish
- töltti Finnish
- Bierzelt German
- Flüchtlingzelt German
- Himmelszelt German
- Zelt German
- Zelthering German
- Zeltlager German
- Zeltstadt German
- tilt Italian
- tölt Dutch, Flemish
- entoldar Spanish, Castilian
- toldo Spanish, Castilian
- *teldą Proto-Germanic
- tyltan Old English
- tilte Middle English
- tjald Old Norse
- telt Danish
- tjæld Danish
- tølt Danish
- tölt Icelandic
- zelt Old High German
- telt Middle Low German