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Atilt

Definition: Atilt

Atilt

Adjective

1. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "atilt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Note: Atilt \A*tilt"\, adverb. [Prefix a- tilt.]. (references)


Synonyms: Atilt

Synonyms: canted (adj), leaning (adj), tilted (adj), tipped (adj). (additional references)

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Expressions: Atilt

Expressions using "atilt": ride atilt at smb. run atilt at smb.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Atilt

Language Translations for "atilt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtrembër (askew, asquint, awry). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مائل (awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), ‏على نحو مائل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

наклонено (obliquely). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προσκλίνων (tilter), επικλινήσ (prone, slant, sloping). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atiltay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

inclinado (apt, aslope, biased, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, incumbent, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aplecat (bent, inclined, lop-sided, prone), înclinat (aslope, declivous, inclinable, inclined, lop-sided, minded, oblique, overhung, prone, rising, slanting, sloping, splay, squint), în gardã, în apãrare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

наперевес. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pognut (bent). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yan yatmış biçimde, saldırı pozisyonunda, elinde mızrakla, eğilmiş olarak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Atilt

Misspellings

"Atilt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ailt, astilt, Astolat, atal, Atel, atil, atila, atile, atipt, Atli, Atlin, atoil, Attitb, Atul, etil, tault. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Atilt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-t-t"

-1 letter: alit, lati, tail, tali, tilt.

-2 letters: ail, ait, alt, att, lat, lit, tat, til.

-3 letters: ai, al, at, it, la, li, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-t-t"
 

+1 letter: lattin, tallit.

 

+2 letters: altoist, cattail, cattily, fattily, lattice, lattins, nattily, rattail, starlit, tacitly, tactile, talipot, tallith, tastily, tattily, tertial, titlark, titular.

 

+3 letters: aglitter, altitude, altoists, altruist, anticult, antileft, athletic, battalia, battling, blatting, cattails, chattily, coattail, detrital, dilatant, dilatate, etiolate, fatalist, fatality, filtrate, fittable, flatting, flattish, flautist, kilowatt, laterite, lathiest, latinity, latitude, latticed, lattices, levitate, liftgate, literate, literati, litigant, litigate, littoral, lutanist, maltiest, metalist, militant, militate, mutilate, natality, platiest, platting, rattails, rattling, remittal, rutilant, sagittal, saltiest, slatiest, slatting, smaltite, statical, straitly, tactical, tailcoat, tailgate, talipots, talkiest, talliths, tallitim, tantalic, tattling, tertials, thetical, tiltable, tiltyard, tinplate, tithable, titlarks, titrable, titulars, titulary, tonality, tortilla, totaling, totalise, totalism, totalist, totality, totalize, tractile, tutorial, ultimata, ultimate, ultraist, vitalist, vitality, volitant, wattling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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