2syllables
tilting
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Definitions oftilting
1verb
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
Example: "Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents."
- (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
Example: "to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile"
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- (of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
1verb
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
1noun
- The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
- The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
- A charging with a lance, as in jousting.
1adjective
- 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.
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