different between twilt vs tilt

English

Etymology

See quilt.

Noun

twilt (plural twilts)

1. (Britain, dialect) A quilt.

Verb

twilt (third-person singular simple present twilts, present participle twilting, simple past and past participle twilted)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To cross-stitch in quincunx fashion so as to connect two thicknesses together.

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)

1. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant. [1590]

2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. [1590]
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     But in this tournament can no man tilt.

3. (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.
4. (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!

5. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

7. (poker, video games) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
8. (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)

1. A slope or inclination.
2. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
3. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
4. A jousting contest. (countable) [1510]
5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
6. A thrust, as with a lance.

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7. 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)

1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. [1450]
2. 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

Verb

tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)

1. (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

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of tillen
2. (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

1. (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)

1. haywire state; breakdown; crash; down; out of order

2. short-circuit (unintended current flow)
3. 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