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1. To incline or bend from a vertical position
   - lean, tip, slant, angle
    
2. Heel over
   "The tower is tilting";
   - cant, cant over, slant, pitch
    
3. Move sideways or in an unsteady way
   "The ship tilted out of control";
   - careen, wobble, shift
    
4. Charge with a tilt

1. A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
   - joust
    
2. A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
   "they were involved in a violent tilt";
   - controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, argument, arguing
    
3. A slight but noticeable partiality
   "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
    
4. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
   "the tower had a pronounced tilt";
   - list, inclination, lean, leaning
    
5. Pitching dangerously to one side
   - rock, careen, sway

Derived forms: tilted, tilting, tilts

See also: rest on

Type of: battle, bend, conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute, flex, joust, lurch, move, partiality, partisanship, pitch, pitching, position, spatial relation, struggle

Part of: tournament

Encyclopedia: Tilt, Matthew