Tilt vs Shift - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tilt and shift

is that tilt is a slope or inclination (uncountable) or tilt can be a canvas covering for carts, boats, etc while shift is (computing) a modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing shift and the other button simultaneously).

As a verb tilt

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

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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shift

English

(wikipedia shift)

Verb

(en verb)

To change, swap.

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To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

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To change position.

(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

*, II.ii.2:

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].

* Shakespeare

As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.

To change gears (in a car).

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

(computing) To remove the first value from an array.

To dispose of.

To hurry.

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

* L'Estrange

Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip

Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.

No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.

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* 1919 ,

Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.

a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.

an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

* Sir H. Wotton

My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.

There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

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(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

Does it come with a stick-shift ?

If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.

(computing) a bit shift

(baseball) The infield shift.

Teams often use the shift against this lefty.

The act of sexual petting.

(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail

* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John

If I get down, and do not break my limbs,

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:

As good to die and go, as die and stay.

(archaic) a trick, an artifice

* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

And if the boy have not a woman's gift

To rain a shower of commanded tears,

An onion will do well for such a shift

* Macaulay

Reduced to pitiable shifts .

* Shakespeare

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.

* Dryden

Little souls on little shifts rely.

In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Derived terms

* blueshift * day shift * graveyard shift * make shift * night shift * preshift * shift break * shiftwork, shift work * split shift * swing shift * stickshift * redshift * (French kissing) get the shift