Tilt

Tilt

Tilt may refer to:

Geography

* River Tilt, a river in Scotland, United Kingdom

People

*Luke Tilt (1988-) an English football player

Music

*Tilt (band), an American punk rock band, 1989 - 2001
*"Tilt" (album), a 1995 album by Scott Wanker
*"Tilt" (Lightning Seeds album), a 1999 album by Lightning Seeds
*Tilt (producers), a British progressive house and trance music act
*Tilt-Recordings, a German record label

Media

*"Tilt" (film), a 1979 movie starring Brooke Shields
*"Tilt" (short film), a 2003 short film starring The X Files' Tom Braidwood
*"Tilt" (TV series), a U.S. television series, with poker as a backdrop, produced by ESPN
*Tilt (camera), a cinematographic technique in which the camera is stationary and rotates in a vertical plane
*"Tilt" (radio), a 2008 satirical radio series on BBC 7
*Tilt (Gladiators), an event played in the television series Gladiators

cience and technology

*Tilt (optics), the average two-dimensional slope of an optical wavefront
*Tilting train, a train that leans while turning to travel faster without causing discomfort to passengers
*Tilt switch, an alternate name for a mercury switch, an electrical switch sensitive to its orientation with respect to gravity
*TILT, the model name for the AT&T branded version of the HTC TyTN II Windows Mobile Pocket PC phone
*Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, an increased sensitivity to common chemicals also known as multiple chemical sensitivity

ports and games

*Tilt (poker), a term for a state of mental frustration in which a poker player plays a suboptimal game.
*"Tilt-lehti", a Finnish video game magazine
*A penalty condition from overly aggressive play in pinball
*A type of armed encounter in the sport of JoustingIn the old mechanical days, slot machines had tilt switches. While modern machines no longer have tilt switches, any kind of mechanical failure (door switch in the wrong state, reel motor failure, etc) is still called a "tilt".
*Tilt (arcade), an arcade chain in the USA.

Other

*Tilt (drink), an alcoholic energy drink

Tilt: A canvas of plastic tarpaulin


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  • Tilt up — or tilt slab is a type of building, and a construction technique using concrete. The process resembles barn raising specifically and wood platform framing generally. It is cost effective for low buildings.cite journal | last=Glass | first=J. |… …   Wikipedia

  • tilt — [ tilt ] n. m. • 1957; mot angl. « action de basculer » ♦ Anglic. Au billard électrique, Signal indiquant que la partie est interrompue. ⇒ déclic. Le tilt s est allumé. Faire tilt, déclencher ce signal (qui marque l échec); fig. (1964) frapper… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Tilt d'Or — Tilt (magazine) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Tilt.  Tilt {{{nomorigine}}} …   Wikipédia en Français

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  • tilt — tilt1 [tilt] vt. [ME tilten, to be overthrown, totter, prob. < OE * tieltan < tealt, shaky, unstable; akin to Swed tulta, to totter < IE base * del , to waddle, totter > Sans dulā, she who totters] 1. to cause to slope or slant; tip 2 …   English World dictionary

  • Tilt.tv — (previously known as just Tilt ) is a Finnish video gaming programme aired primarily on MTV3. It started out on YLE TV2 and was also, though briefly, also seen on Nelonen. Currently the programme is aired on Sub. Tilt.tv was originally hosted by… …   Wikipedia

  • tilt — ► VERB 1) move into a sloping position. 2) incline towards a particular opinion: he is tilting towards a new economic course. 3) (tilt at) historical (in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon. ► NOUN 1) a tilting position or movement.… …   English terms dictionary

  • Tilt — Tilt, v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. t[ o]lt an ambling pace, t[ o]lta to amble. Cf. {Totter}.] 1. To incline; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Tilt — Tilt, n. 1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. [1913 Webster] 3. See {Tilt hammer}, in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster] 4.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tilt — /tilt/, it. /tilt/ s. ingl. (propr. colpo, ribaltamento ), usato in ital. al masch. [con riferimento a congegni o circuiti elettrici o elettronici, cessazione del funzionamento, solo nell espressione andare in t. ] ● Espressioni: fam., andare in… …   Enciclopedia Italiana

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