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tilting

/ˈtɪltɪŋ/

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verb

To slope or incline (something); to slant.

Examples :

"Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents."

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verb

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

Examples :

"Sir Reginald, atop his mighty steed, began tilting towards his opponent, lance lowered and ready for the challenge. "

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verb

To be at an angle.

Examples :

"The tower was tilting slightly to the left after the earthquake. "

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verb

To point or thrust a weapon at.

Examples :

"The knight, atop his horse, was tilting his lance at the target. "

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verb

To point or thrust (a weapon).

Examples :

"The knight, on horseback, was tilting his lance at the target. "

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verb

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

Examples :

"to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile"

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verb

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

Examples :

"After losing three games in a row, Mark started tilting and made a lot of careless mistakes. "

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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.

Examples :

"The frustrated player started shaking the pinball machine too hard, and the game warned him it was close to tilting before actually tilting a second later, ending his turn. "

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verb

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Examples :

"The market vendors were tilting their stalls with canvas sheets to protect the produce from the afternoon sun. "

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noun

The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.

Examples :

"The slow tilting of the Earth causes the seasons. "

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noun

The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

Examples :

"The historical record shows that tilting was essential for transforming brittle blister steel into workable metal. "

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noun

A charging with a lance, as in jousting.

Examples :

"The historical reenactment focused on the knights' skill in tilting, showing the power and precision needed to unseat an opponent. "

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adjective

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.

Examples :

"Due to its tilting property, the module was useful in the advanced mathematical calculations. "