tilt

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /tɪlt/
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• rhymes with -ɪlt
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• CMU ARPABET: T IH1 L T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”). The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620. The sense of gaming frustration is said to originate with pinball.

From Middle English telte, tield, teld, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Low German telt, or Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: meyil — inclination of part of the body
• Azerbaijani: əydəm — inclination of part of the body
• Bulgarian: навеждане (naveždane) — inclination of part of the body
• Finnish: kallistuma — inclination of part of the body
• French: inclinaison — inclination of part of the body
• Irish: maig — inclination of part of the body
• Irish: leathcheann — inclination of part of the body
• Italian: inclinazione — inclination of part of the body
• Italian: pendenza — inclination of part of the body
• Portuguese: inclinação — inclination of part of the body
• Spanish: inclinación — inclination of part of the body
• Hungarian: függőleges svenkelés — photography: the controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this
• Afrikaans: kantel — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Azerbaijani: əymək — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Bulgarian: навеждам (naveždam) — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Bulgarian: накланям (naklanjam) — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Catalan: inclinar — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Dutch: kantelen — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Esperanto: klini — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Finnish: kallistaa — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Galician: inclinar — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• German: neigen — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• German: kippen — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Indonesian: memiringkan — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Indonesian: miring — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Italian: pendere — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Italian: inclinare — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Italian: piegare — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Latin: inclīnō — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Māori: honga — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Māori: kotira — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Māori: whakatītaha — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Māori: matira — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Māori: whakataiheke — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Occitan: inclinar — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Portuguese: inclinar — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Russian: наклоня́ть (naklonjátʹ) — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Lower Sorbian: chyliś — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Spanish: ladear — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Spanish: ladearse — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Spanish: inclinar — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Swedish: luta — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Tagalog: humiwas — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Ottoman Turkish: اكمك (eğmek) — to slope or incline (something); to slant
• Egyptian: g-s-sA-A-O37 (gsꜣ) — To be at an angle, to be on a slope
• Māori: tītaha — To be at an angle, to be on a slope
• Māori: hāhā — To be at an angle, to be on a slope
• Māori: konana — To be at an angle, to be on a slope
• Māori: taiuru — To be at an angle, to be on a slope
• Māori: tāwharara — To be at an angle, to be on a slope