tilt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɪlt/    美 /tɪlt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
    — The tilt hooding the spring-cart was insecure - even the jolt from the down-and-up curving river bend near the house had brought it down twice.
  2. A slope or inclination. countable,uncountable
  3. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
    — But the rain made an ass Of tilt and canvas
  4. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc. countable,uncountable
  5. The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this. countable,uncountable
  6. A jousting contest. (countable) countable,uncountable
    — Justs and tilts were held here weekly, while the great tourneys that occurred less often were given upon a field outside the castle wall upon the floor of the valley.
  7. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office. countable,uncountable
    — City will now make the Premier League an even bigger priority, while regrouping and planning again for what they hope will be another tilt at the Champions League next season.
  8. A thrust, as with a lance. countable,uncountable
    — His Majesty[…]entertain'd him with the Slaughter of two or three of his Liege Subjects, whom he very dexterously put to Death with the Tilt of his Lance.
  9. A tilt hammer. countable,uncountable
  10. A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses. slang,uncountable
    — to go on tilt
动词 v.
  1. To cover with a tilt, or awning. transitive
  2. To slope or incline (something); to slant. transitive
    — Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.
  3. To be at an angle. intransitive
    — 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.
  4. To charge (at someone) with a lance. intransitive
    — 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
  5. To point or thrust a weapon at. transitive
    — And he should tilt her?
  6. To point or thrust (a weapon). transitive
    — Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.
  7. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
    — to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile
  8. 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.
  9. To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses. slang
    — The D.F.S. industry is still inextricably tied up in those poker roots. Players talk about "tilting" because of "variance," especially when a "fish" puts in a "donkey" lineup that ends up going crazy. (In regular American English, this translates roughly to "I am really mad because some idiot punched in some random lineup that ended up catching every conceivable break and beating me.")
  10. To modify one's approach. figuratively
    — While self-checkout machines are often used alongside cashiers, labor unions say that tilting toward fully cashierless operations threatens the French way of life by encouraging American-style consumerism and automation, putting thousands of jobs at risk.

词形变化

tilts present,singular,third-person tilting participle,present tilted participle,past tilted past tilts plural tilts plural tilts present,singular,third-person tilting participle,present tilted participle,past tilted past

词汇关系

近义词
slope incline slant cock
衍生词
canthal tilt I'm using tilt controls!

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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