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say it: tilt
tilt is a noun and verb meaning "a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
“they were involved in a violent argument”
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”
charge with a tilt
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tilt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.