Tilt vs Huddle - What's the difference?

tilt | huddle |

As a verb tilt

is to slope or incline (something); to slant or tilt can be to cover with a tilt, or awning.

As a noun tilt

is a slope or inclination (uncountable) or tilt can be a canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.

As a proper noun huddle is

tilt

English

(wikipedia tilt)

Etymology 1

Old English tyltan'' "to be unsteady"; Middle English ''tilte . Cognate with Icelandic . The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with . The modern transitive meaning is from 1590, the intransitive use appears 1620.

Verb

(en verb)

To slope or incline (something); to slant

Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

(jousting ) To charge (at someone) with a lance

* William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet act III, scene I

He tilts / With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.

* Tennyson

But in this tournament can no man tilt .

To be at an angle

* Grew

The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.

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To point or thrust a weapon at.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 52-54

I say I quarrell’d with you;

We did not tilt each other, — that’s a blessing, —

Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head!

To point or thrust (a weapon).

* J. Philips

Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

(poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).

(photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.

Synonyms

* slope * incline * slant

Coordinate terms

* (photography) pan, cant

Noun

(en noun)

a slope or inclination (uncountable)

a jousting contest (countable)

A thrust, as with a lance.

(Addison)

(photography) the controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this

an attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office .

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tilt hammer

The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) telt, from (etyl) ). More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.

Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

(Denham)

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Derived terms

* at full tilt * atilt * on tilt

References

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huddle

English

Noun

(en noun)

a dense and disorderly crowd

(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.

Verb

(huddl)

To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4

During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.

To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.

To get together and discuss.

* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.

(American football) To form a huddle.

To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.

* (John Locke)

Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.

To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).

* J. H. Newman

Huddle up a peace.

* (John Dryden)

Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.

* (Jonathan Swift)

Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.