to tilt

تعريف to tilt في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: to slope or incline (something); to slant; to charge (at someone) with a lance; to play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck); a slope or inclination; a joust; the controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this; to move a camera vertically in a controlled way; {n} a cover of a boat, military game, thrus; {v} to cover, turn up, incline, fall, thrust; The inclination to the vertical of a significant feature of the pressure pattern or of the field of moisture or temperature For example, midlatitide troughs tend to display a westward tilt with altitude through the troposphere; a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"; To cover with a tilt, or awning; Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask; The control, usually a cord or a wand, that tilts the slats of a venetian or horizontal blind to varying degrees of being open and closed for light control; To lean; to fall partly over; to tip; a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"; Angle of wavefront at face of Koesters prism; A vertical camera pan from a stationary position The camera pivots up or down from a fixed point; The vertical movement of a lantern; A tilt at something is an attempt to win or obtain it. His first tilt at Parliament came in the same year but he failed to win the seat; A camera move up and down from a fixed point Similar to a pan except a tilt is moving above to below (or vice versa) moving on the camera head; 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; A camera movement with the camera body swiveling upward or downward on a stationary camera; it produces a mobile framing that scans the space vertically; A covering overhead; especially, a tent; Term describing the vertical movement of an automated luminaire; A thrust, as with a lance; The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon; {f} incline, slant; cause to lean; joust with a person; compete in a joust or tilt; thrust at or strike with a lance; A hood of canvas or other material stretched over hooped sticks to close in an otherwise open vehicle; a canvas covering for carts etc; a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances; A camera movement in which the camera body swivels upward or downward on a stationary support It produces a mobile framing that scans the space vertically; heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"; Rotation of a barcode symbol about an axis perpendicular to the substrate; the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"; To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile; charge with a tilt; To point or thrust a weapon at; A camera movement with the camera body swiveling upward or downward on a stationary support It produces a mobile framing that scans the space vertically; The tilt of something is the fact that it tilts or slopes, or the angle at which it tilts or slopes. calculations based on our understanding of the tilt of the earth's axis The 3-metre-square slabs are on a tilt; the condition of tilting, or sloping; a slant; If there is a tilt towards a particular opinion or position, that opinion or position is favoured or begins to be favoured. The chairman also criticised the plan for its tilt towards higher taxes rather than lower spending; to forge (something) with a tilt hammer; If you tilt part of your body, usually your head, you move it slightly upwards or to one side. Mari tilted her head back so that she could look at him His wife tilted his head to the side and inspected the wound She tilted her face to kiss me quickly on the chin. Tilt is also a noun. He opened the rear door for me with an apologetic tilt of his head; Rotation of a unit about the X axis; The up and down movement of a camera; A dance position where you hold your body at an angle to your supporting leg; If a person or thing tilts towards a particular opinion or if something tilts them towards it, they change slightly so that they become more in agreement with that opinion or position. When the political climate tilted towards fundamentalism he was threatened The paper has done much to tilt American public opinion in favour of intervention; To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel; A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat; A temporary shelter Usually a small hut built of vertically-placed logs; {i} inclination; bending; attack, onslaught; joust, fight between knights on horseback who attempt to unseat each other with lances, jousting contest; To play wildly or recklessly A player is said to be "on tilt" if he is not playing his best, playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands, etc; See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary; move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"; to cause to have an inclination -- often used with up or down; A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament; pitching dangerously to one side; A vertical camera movement from a fixed position; Rotation of a bar code symbol about an axis perpendicular to the substrate; to turn your opponent so that his back goes from an angle of 45 degrees or more to less than 45 Also, when exposure is achieved; to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"; To move full tilt or at full tilt means to move with as much speed, energy, or force as possible. As John approached at full tilt he saw a queue of traffic blocking the road. To cover (a vehicle) with a canopy or an awning; A wooden fence or barrier separating the combatants in a joust; also, to fight with lances; to joust; If you tilt an object or if it tilts, it moves into a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other. She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair Leonard tilted his chair back on two legs and stretched his long body The boat instantly tilted, filled and sank; The difference in attenuation of two different frequency signals 2; Movement up or down from a stationary position (tripod); To point or thrust, as a lance