Tilt vs. Skew
Tiltverb
(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
Tiltverb
(jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
Tiltverb
(intransitive) To be at an angle.
Tiltverb
(transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
Tiltverb
(transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
Tiltverb
To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
Tiltverb
To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
Tiltverb
(transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Tiltnoun
A slope or inclination.
Tiltnoun
A jousting contest. (countable)
Tiltnoun
A thrust, as with a lance.
Tiltnoun
(photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this
Tiltnoun
An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
Tiltnoun
A tilt hammer.
Tiltnoun
The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
Tiltnoun
A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
Tiltnoun
Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
Tiltnoun
A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
Tiltnoun
The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
Tiltnoun
A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
Tiltnoun
A thrust, as with a lance.
Tiltnoun
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
Tiltnoun
See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
Tiltnoun
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
Tiltverb
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Tiltverb
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
Tiltverb
To point or thrust, as a lance.
Tiltverb
To point or thrust a weapon at.
Tiltverb
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
Tiltverb
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.
Tiltverb
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
Tiltnoun
a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
Tiltnoun
a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;
Tiltnoun
a slight but noticeable partiality;
Tiltnoun
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;
Tiltnoun
pitching dangerously to one side
Tiltverb
to incline or bend from a vertical position;
Tiltverb
heel over;
Tiltverb
move sideways or in an unsteady way;
Tiltverb
charge with a tilt
Tiltverb
move or cause to move into a sloping position
Tiltverb
change or cause to change in favour of one person or thing as opposed to another
Tiltverb
move (a camera) in a vertical plane
Tiltverb
(in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon
Tiltverb
engage in a contest with
Tiltnoun
a sloping position or movement
Tiltnoun
an upwards or downwards pivoting movement of a camera
Tiltnoun
an inclination or bias
Tiltnoun
a combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust.
Tiltnoun
an attempt at winning (something) or defeating (someone)
Tiltnoun
a small hut in a forest.
Skewadjective
Neither intersecting nor parallel.
Skewadjective
Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line.
Skewverb
(transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
Skewverb
(transitive) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Skewverb
(transitive) To throw or hurl obliquely.
Skewverb
(intransitive) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
Skewverb
(intransitive) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
Skewverb
(intransitive) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Skewnoun
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
Skewnoun
(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Skewnoun
(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
Skewadverb
Awry; obliquely; askew.
Skewadverb
Awry; obliquely; askew.
Skewadjective
Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; - chiefly used in technical phrases.
Skewnoun
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Skewverb
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
Skewverb
To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
Skewverb
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Skewverb
To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Skewverb
To throw or hurl obliquely.
Skewverb
turn or place at an angle;
Skewadjective
having an oblique or slanting direction or position;
