Tilting

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The motion of something that tilts; a tilt. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting. countable, uncountable

    "[…] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tilt form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands. not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms
aslantaslopeatiltbevelbeveledbias

Example

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"It's like tilting at windmills."

Related phrases

non-tiltingblister steeltilt hammer

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