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Tilting

verb
Word Frequency: 1.3

Definitions

1.verbTo slope or incline (something); to slant.
"Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents."
2.verb(jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
3.verbTo be at an angle.
4.verbTo point or thrust a weapon at.
5.verbTo point or thrust (a weapon).
6.verbTo forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
"to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile"
7.verbTo play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
8.verb(of a machine) 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.
9.verbTo cover with a tilt, or awning.
10.nounThe motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
11.nounThe process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
12.nounA charging with a lance, as in jousting.
13.adjectiveHaving the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.

Synonyms

inclineslantslopeinclinationleanleaningswaytipwobblejoustcontentioncontestation

Rhymes With

quiltingwiltingquilt hung
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