tilting

tilting is the present participle and gerund of tilt.

Noun

tilting (countable and uncountable, plural tiltings)

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 (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.
- […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.1841, Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook, The Parish Clerk, volume 1, page 59

tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)

(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.
(intransitive) To be at an angle.
- For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Use of Organized Bodies”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith...
(intransitive, jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds / All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, / With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, / And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lighteningc. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
(transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- And he should tilt her?c. 1609–1622?, John Fletcher, “The Womans Prize: Or, The Tamer Tamed”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please...
(transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
- Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.1708, John Philips, Cyder
To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

tilting (not comparable)

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.

plural	tiltings

What does tilting mean?: Tilting means the motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
What is tilting the present participle and gerund of?: Tilting is the present participle and gerund of tilt.
What part of speech is tilting?: Tilting can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of tilting?: The plural of tilting is tiltings.

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