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TILTING
Verb
tilting
present participle of tilt
Noun
tilting (countable and uncountable, plural tiltings)
The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
A charging with a lance, as in jousting.
Adjective
tilting (not comparable)
(maths) Having 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.
Anagrams
• Tlingit, litting, titling
Source: Wiktionary
Tilt"ing, n.
1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts.
TILT
Tilt, n. Etym: [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll, Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.]
1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth.
– Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.
Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.]
Definition: To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Tilt, v. t. Etym: [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter.]
1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2. To point or thrust, as a lance. Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips.
3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
Tilt, v. i.
1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. Shak. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the Pope.
2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.
Tilt, n.
1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison.
2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. Full tilt, with full force. Dampier.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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