tilt
verb
[ tɪlt ]
• move or cause to move into a sloping position.
• "the floor tilted slightly"
Similar:
lean,
tip,
list,
slope,
camber,
bank,
slant,
incline,
pitch,
dip,
cant,
bevel,
angle,
cock,
heel,
careen,
bend,
be at an angle,
Opposite:
level,
right,
be/come level,
be/come upright,
• (in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon.
• "he tilts at his prey"
Similar:
charge,
rush,
run,
lunge,
prod,
poke,
jab,
thrust,
joust,
tourney,
enter the lists,
contend,
spar,
fight,
clash,
tilt
noun
• a sloping position or movement.
• "the tilt of her head"
Similar:
slope,
list,
camber,
gradient,
bank,
slant,
incline,
pitch,
dip,
cant,
bevel,
angle,
heel,
grade,
downgrade,
upgrade,
nod,
tip,
inclination,
cock,
bob,
• a combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust.
• a small hut in a forest.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘fall or cause to fall, topple’): perhaps related to Old English tealt ‘unsteady’, or perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian tylten ‘unsteady’ and Swedish tulta ‘totter’.
full tilt
• with maximum energy or force; at top speed.
Similar:
full speed,
full pelt,
at a gallop,
helter-skelter,
headlong,
hotfoot,
post-haste,
hurriedly,
hastily,
wildly,
pell-mell,
impetuously,
recklessly,
rashly,
at breakneck speed,
precipitately,
impulsively,
p.d.q. (pretty damn quick),
double quick,
at a lick,
hell for leather,
pronto,
at the double,
a mile a minute,
like the wind,
like a bomb,
like a bat out of hell,
like a scalded cat,
like the deuce,
like nobody's business,
like (greased) lightning,
like a madman/madwoman,
like the clappers,
at a rate of knots,
like billy-o,
lickety-split,
apace,
hurry-scurry,
with great force,
(with) full force,
full blast,
with a will,
for all one is worth,
with might and main,
with all the stops out,
all out,
with a vengeance,
vigorously,
energetically,
strongly,
powerfully,
madly,
hammer and tongs,
going great guns,
like crazy,
like mad,
