Tilting

Word TILTING
Character 7
Hyphenation tilt ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Tilting"

What do we mean by tilting?

To slope or incline (something); to slant.

(jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.

To be at an angle.

To point or thrust a weapon at.

To point or thrust (a weapon).

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

(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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tilting

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The word "tilting" in example sentences

Take the cheesecake out of the fridge and pour the ganache over the caramel, once again tilting the pan to coat the top evenly. ❋ Laura (2009)

They work the meadow grass, the cottonwoods along the creek, the open barnloft, alive in tilting sweeps of hand-size shadows. ❋ Unknown (2002)

; and she answered, I desired to prove thy prowess afield and test thy doughtiness in tilting and jousting. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You might call it tilting at windmills, but don’t say that to Neal Saiki, who holds a masters degree in aeronautical engineering and worked as a project manager at NASA developing high-altitude research vehicles, before founding Zero Motorcycles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is interested in tilting the tax burden even more toward those who produce and less on those who don’t. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But they have been very effective in tilting the general public consciousness toward a vision of an America where liberal politics just can’t win. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He is interested in tilting the tax burden even more toward those who produce and less on those who don’t. aeroman Says: ❋ Unknown (2007)

The United States hasn’t shown much deftness in tilting this fight between the two lefts toward pragmatists like Lula. ❋ Unknown (2006)

More patient investors eventually will find terms tilting back in their favor. ❋ Rolfe Winkler (2011)

The effect of a mass on spacetime can informally be described as tilting the direction of time towards the mass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The tilting, which is imperceptible to most riders, compensates for 70 percent of the centrifugal force. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr. Powell, whose creations are on display in this sumptuous volume, is a master of fragmented color, and the book's many photographs elicit the sort of wonder a child might feel when first tilting a kaleidoscope toward the light. ❋ Barbara D. Phillips (2007)

Agatha he saw not at all; nor the Lady, and still deemed that the white-skinned woman whom he had seen sitting by the Lord after the tilting was the Queen. ❋ William Morris (1865)

The title, McMillen explains, "... is both metaphoric and a bit literal," as the installation includes a looped screening of his new short film "Quotidian Man" which projected onto the billboard of the "Hotel New Empire," a kind of tilting film set raised on a catafalque of stilts over a tray of water. ❋ John Seed (2010)

As far as Easely "tilting" this thing - YES, by increasing Obama's numbers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I do not object to formalizing much of what goes on in school--I do, however, rant about those things such as tilting your paper the wrong way, using wrong-handed scissors, etc. that "experts" presume to enforce, not having a clue why the child is having a problem. ❋ Doyle (2009)

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