Tilt vs Decline - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between tilt and decline

is that tilt is to cover with a tilt, or awning while decline is to refuse, forbear.

In intransitive terms the difference between tilt and decline

is that tilt is to be at an angle while decline is to become weaker or worse.

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

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decline

English

Noun

(en noun)

Downward movement, fall.(rfex)

A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(rfex)

(senseid)A weakening.(rfex)

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A reduction or diminution of activity.

It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

Antonyms

* incline

Verb

(declin)

To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

To become weaker or worse.

To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

* Thomson

in melancholy deep, with head declined

* Spenser

And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.

To cause to decrease or diminish.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

You have declined his means.

* Burton

He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

a line that declines from straightness

conduct that declines from sound morals

* Bible, Psalms cxix. 157

Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

To refuse, forbear.

* Massinger

Could I decline this dreadful hour?

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To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.

* Ascham

after the first declining of a noun and a verb

(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

(Shakespeare)

(American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.

The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.

Derived terms

* declension * declination

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