different between tilt vs flip

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English tilte, from Old English tyltan (“to be unsteady”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling place”).The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering".The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant. [1590]

2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. [1590]
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     But in this tournament can no man tilt.

3. (intransitive) To be at an angle. [1620]
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra

     The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
4. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
   • 1819, John Keats, 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!

5. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

7. (poker, video games) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
8. (pinball, of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

Synonyms

• slope
• incline
• slant

Coordinate terms

• (photography): pan, cant

Translations

Noun

tilt (plural tilts)

1. A slope or inclination.
2. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
3. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
4. A jousting contest. (countable) [1510]
5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
6. A thrust, as with a lance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

7. A tilt hammer.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English telt, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Middle Low German telt, perhaps via or influenced by Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.

Noun

tilt (plural tilts)

1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. [1450]
2. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
   • a. 1669, John Denham, To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais to Boulogne, to eat a Pig

     But the rain made an ass
     Of tilt and canvas

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Derived terms

• at full tilt
• atilt
• on tilt
• tilt at windmills

References

Anagrams

• Litt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

tilt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of tillen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of tillen

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tilt]
• Rhymes: -ilt

Verb

tilt

1. (transitive) to forbid, prohibit

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Related terms

Further reading

• tilt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tilt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tilt/
• Hyphenation: tilt

Noun

tilt m (invariable)

1. haywire state; breakdown; crash; down; out of order

2. short-circuit (unintended current flow)
3. tilt (pinball machine state)

Derived terms

• andare in tilt
• essere in tilt

Further reading

• tilt in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).

Noun

flip (plural flips)

1. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.

   We'll decide this on a flip of a coin.

   The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool.

2. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
3. (US, slang) A slingshot.
   • 1986, George Scarbrough, A summer ago (page 123)

     He loaded his flip and took careful aim at what he considered to be Emily's most vulnerable spot […]

4. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out

   Justin Bieber and Zac Efron are among the celebrities who wore a flip.

5. (informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
   • 2007, Rick Villani, Clay Davis, Gary Keller, Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit (page viii)

     What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

flip (third-person singular simple present flips, present participle flipping, simple past and past participle flipped)

1. (transitive) To throw so as to turn over.

   Synonyms: turn, turn over
2. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.

   Synonym: toss

3. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.

4. (intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.

5. (transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.

6. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.

7. (transitive, informal) To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
8. (transitive, computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently a euphemism for fuck.

Interjection

flip

1. (Britain, euphemistic) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

Synonyms

• damn

Related terms

• flipping

Etymology 3

Clipping of flippant

Adjective

flip (comparative flipper, superlative flippest)

1. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.

   I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.

2. Sarcastic.
3. (informal) Disrespectful, flippant.

   Don't get flip with me or I'll knock you into next Tuesday!

Synonyms

• (disrespectful): see Thesaurus:cheeky

Etymology 4

Compare English dialect flip (“nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow”).

Noun

flip (uncountable)

1. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.9:

     [H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […] .

   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 21:

     I frequently took of large potations, though not of champagne certainly, but port, strong ales, and punch, and when our funds were low as sometimes happened, hot flip […] .

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

flip

1. first-person singular present indicative of flippen
2. imperative of flippen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flip/

Noun

flip m (plural flips)

1. a type of alcoholic punch from Normandy, composed of cider and calvados
2. (gymnastics) backflip

Further reading

• “flip” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).