How do you use the word "tilt" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "tilt" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "tilt": I tilt my head. Not the pawn, but the knight? In helicopters, the cyclic controls the tilt of the main rotor, producing pitch and roll.

Tilt Meaning

/tɪlt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo slope or incline (something); to slant.

verbTo be at an angle.

Sentence Examples

I tilt my head. Not the pawn, but the knight?

In helicopters, the cyclic controls the tilt of the main rotor, producing pitch and roll.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

tip argument slant

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He had to ____ the chair slightly to fit it through the narrow door.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please ____ the screen of the laptop slightly so that I can see the presentation more clearly from here today.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly." — 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Use of Organized Bodies”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 1st book, paragraph 18, page 27:

"“Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa." — 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

"Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds / All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, / With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, / And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening" — c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

"He tilts / With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast." — c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

"But in this tournament can no man tilt, / Except the lady he loves best be there." — 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:

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