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Definition: TILTING |
TILTINGNoun1. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. 2. The act of one who tilts; a tilt. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Tilt |
Date "TILTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The camber angle is the -- of the front wheels from the vertical. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Arena | Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus. |
Contention | Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TILTING |
| English words defined with "TILTING": Coronel, Cronel ♦ joust ♦ Morne ♦ tilt, tilter, Tilt-mill, tiltyard, Tilt-yard ♦ Vamplate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TILTING": arc furnace tilt rockers, azione positiva ♦ basin range ♦ car dumper ♦ DRILL-PRESS SET-UP OPERATOR, RADIAL, DRILL-PRESS SET-UP OPERATOR, RADIAL, TOOL, Durville process ♦ Field-Reversed Configuration ♦ hot-metal mixer ♦ ingot buggy operator ♦ KETTLE OPERATOR ♦ LADLE POURER, Live Free Or Die! ♦ otolith organs, overhead door ♦ PLATE GRAINER, plate preparer ♦ RAIL-TRACTOR OPERATOR ♦ splash man ♦ Talbot continuous process, tilted model, tilting idlers, tilt-up door, tractor drills, TREATING-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ Walton's rising sill gate, Whiting's gate, Whiting's self-acting waste weir gate ♦ zinc-plate grainer. (references) |
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Screenplays | All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Knight tilting at man in modern dress in tree. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis) is characterized by asymmetric muscle spasms in the neck, which cause turning or tilting movements and sustained abnormal postures of the head. Mild to moderate head tremor and musculoskeletal pain are frequently present. (references) | |
The investigators were alerted to this possibility when they noticed an overlap between their patients with CFS and those who had NMH. NMH can be induced by using tilt table testing, which involves laying the patient horizontally on a table and then tilting the table upright to 70 degrees for 45 minutes while monitoring blood pressure and heart rate. Persons with NMH will develop lowered blood pressure under these conditions, as well as other characteristic symptoms, such as lightheadedness, visual dimming, or a slow response to verbal stimuli. (references) | ||
Economic History | Nigeria | The process was not accomplished without controversy as the government was accused of tilting the selection of core investors for these companies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TILTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.54% of the time. "TILTING" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.54% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.43% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.61% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.81% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.6% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 166 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TILTING": table tilting ♦ tilting flume ♦ tilting gantry ♦ Tilting helmet ♦ tilting table. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TILTING": tilting-top. | |
Ending with "TILTING": forward-tilting, windmill-tilting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tilting at windmill | 14 |
a swiftly tilting planet | 10 |
bathroom mirror tilting | 8 |
tilting train | 7 |
tilting | 6 |
tilting table | 6 |
mirror tilting | 6 |
check disc tilting valve | 4 |
tilting rotary furnace | 4 |
three tilting wheeler | 3 |
motorized table tilting | 3 |
dog head tilting | 2 |
planet summary swiftly tilting | 2 |
bearing pad tilting | 2 |
tilting furnace | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TILTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 掀动 (tilt, tilted, Tilt-up). (various references) | |
Danish | udlæg (disbursements, execution, outlay, rocking), kipning (overturning). (various references) | |
Dutch | kippen (fall over, overturning, tip over), kipbaar (rocking). (various references) | |
Finnish | kallistuma (heel, inclination, list, lurch, tilt), kallistettava (rocking). (various references) | |
French | travelling vertical, inclinaison (tilt), basculement (tilt, tilting arrangement, tilting mechanism, tipping), basculant. (various references) | |
German | kippend (canting, tipping, tipping over, toppling). (various references) | |
Greek | ανατρεπόμενος (rocking), ανατροπή (overthrow, overturn, overturning, reversal, subversion, toppling, turnover, upset). (various references) | |
Italian | rovesciamento (overthrow, reversal), rotazione (alternation, gyration, revolution, rotation, spin, turnover), ribaltamento (overturn, overturning), ribaltabile (capsize, sweep, tilt), oscillazione (fluctuation, oscillation, rocking, swinging, vibration, waving), bascullamento (overturning). (various references) | |
Korean | 기우 (Canting, slanting, Trending). (various references) | |
Manx | seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stick, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, transfix), listey (fillet), listal (enlist, enlistment, enrol, enrolment, join up, leaning, list, recruit, recruitment). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iltingtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inclinação lateral (bank, overturning), basculamento (jacknifing, overturning, tilt, tipping). (various references) | |
Romanian | basculant (rocking, seesaw, tip up). (various references) | |
Russian | наклонять (bend, cant, decline, droop, incline, lean, slants, slope, stoop, tilt, tip, vail). (various references) | |
Spanish | vuelco (overturn, spill, upset), inclinación (bent, bow, careenage, desire, dip, droop, gradient, inclination, incline, inclining, item, leaning, liking, list, mind, nod, nutation, penchant, pitch, propensity, skew, slant, slanting, slope, sloping, tilt, want), giro (gyration, gyre, order, rotation, spin, turn, twirl, whirl), basculante (rocking). (various references) | |
Swedish | tippning (tipping, winner-spotting), tippbar (rocking), stjälpning (overturn), kantring (overturn). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatık (aslope, decumbent, leaning), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to), eğimli (apt, curved, declivitous, inclined, prone, slant, sloping), at üstünde mızrak oyunu ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тент (awning, canopy, parasol, tent), нахиляння (nutation), поворотний (climacteric, fulcrum, rotating, rotatory, swinging), парусиновий навіс. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TILTING": stilting, uptilting. (additional references) | |
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"TILTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tileing, tilying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TILTING" (pronounced ti"lting) |
| 5 | -i" l t i ng | quilting, wilting. |
| 4 | -l t i ng | assaulting, belting, bolting, catapulting, consulting, defaulting, exalting, faulting, halting, insulting, jolting, malting, melting, molting, resulting, revolting, salting, smelting, somersaulting, vaulting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, snorting, soliciting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: titling. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: gittin, tiling. | |
-2 letters: glint. | |
-3 letters: gilt, inti, ling, lint, tilt, ting, tint, titi. | |
-4 letters: gin, git, lin, lit, nil, nit, til, tin. | |
-5 letters: in, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: flitting, kittling, litigant, slitting, stilting, vittling. | |
+2 letters: brittling, cuittling, entitling, fittingly, gentility, inletting, intitling, latticing, litigants, littering, retitling, splitting, tingliest, toileting, uptilting, whittling, wittingly. | |
+3 letters: belittling, etiolating, filtrating, flittering, glittering, intituling, levitating, litigating, litigation, militating, mistitling, mutilating, subtitling, tailgating, totalising, totalizing, ultimating, whittlings. | |
+4 letters: agitational, befittingly, cultivating, deglutition, elutriating, embrittling, filmsetting, gentilities, gillnetting, integrality, intelligent, litigations, palpitating, resplitting, retaliating, rototilling, stilettoing, stimulating, stipulating, stultifying, tangibility, tantalising, tantalizing, titillating, tribulating, unwittingly, ventilating, wildcatting. | |
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