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jilt
English
Etymology
Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
jilt (plural jilts)
- A woman who jilts a lover.
- 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune
- And has she been long a Jilt? has she practi?ed the Trade for any Time?
- 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune
Translations
Verb
jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)
- (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
- Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.
Translations
Turkmen
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (jild, “skin, hide”).
Noun
jilt (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
- skin
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tilt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Etymology 1
From Middle English tilte, from Old English tyltan (“to be unsteady”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling place”).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.
Verb
tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)
- (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant. [1590]
- (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. [1590]
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- But in this tournament can no man tilt.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- (intransitive) To be at an angle. [1620]
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra
- The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra
- (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 52-54
- I say I quarrell’d with you;
We did not tilt each other, — that’s a blessing, —
Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head!
- I say I quarrell’d with you;
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 52-54
- (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder
- Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- (poker, video games) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- (pinball, 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.
Synonyms
- slope
- incline
- slant
Coordinate terms
- (photography): pan, cant
Translations
Noun
tilt (plural tilts)
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
- (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A jousting contest. (countable) [1510]
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- A tilt hammer.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English telt, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Middle Low German telt, perhaps via or influenced by Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.
Noun
tilt (plural tilts)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. [1450]
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- a. 1669, John Denham, To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais to Boulogne, to eat a Pig
- But the rain made an ass
Of tilt and canvas
- But the rain made an ass
- a. 1669, John Denham, To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais to Boulogne, to eat a Pig
Verb
tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)
- (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Derived terms
- at full tilt
- atilt
- on tilt
- tilt at windmills
References
Anagrams
- Litt
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?lt
Verb
tilt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of tillen
- (archaic) plural imperative of tillen
Hungarian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?tilt]
- Rhymes: -ilt
Verb
tilt
- (transitive) to forbid, prohibit
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Related terms
Further reading
- tilt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English tilt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tilt/
- Hyphenation: tilt
Noun
tilt m (invariable)
- haywire state; breakdown; crash; down; out of order
- short-circuit (unintended current flow)
- tilt (pinball machine state)
Derived terms
- andare in tilt
- essere in tilt
Further reading
- tilt in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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