What's the difference between cant and tilt?

Cant


Definition:

  • (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
  • (n.) An outer or external angle.
  • (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
  • (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
  • (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  • (n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  • (n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
  • (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
  • (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
  • (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
  • (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
  • (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
  • (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
  • (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
  • (a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
  • (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
  • (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
  • (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
  • (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
  • (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vince, too, prefers plain speaking to corporate cant – and is even willing to suggest that Tory householders should go elsewhere to buy their energy if they object to his stance.
  • (2) Bob Cant, editor of a 2008 book called Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, says that when he was growing up in 1950s and 60s Scotland, the illegality of homosexual activity was “not a problem for me at all”.
  • (3) The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes of the cant of occlusal plane during and after orthodontic treatment.
  • (4) We have an obligation that we cant ignore something like this.” However, Katz later appeared to accept Spicer’s apology.
  • (5) I care, but I cant do enough so I’ll forget I care.
  • (6) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.
  • (7) The present study evaluated the ability of clofibrate to sensitize in situ a mouse carcinoma (CaNT) to radiation.
  • (8) October 1, 2013 Mark Knoller (@markknoller) The @ONDCP , the WH Office Office of Drug Policy says "we're sorry" but it cant respond to tweets and replies due to the shutdown.
  • (9) When I see footage of her fencing I cant believe what I see,” says Pinkhasov, a Russian immigrant who fenced himself both in the Soviet Union and in the US.
  • (10) Nicotinamide increased the radiation sensitivity of CaNT tumours under all three different oxygen concentrations tested (21, 95 and 100% oxygen).
  • (11) 1.43pm BST Your comments Paddyde 26 June 2014 12:24pm So Syngenta applies to have UK government ecotox experts review the data and make a judgment and the general opinion in the comments section is: " We cant let the scientists review the data and come to an informed opinion because it might not agree with ours.
  • (12) There are always compromises, and that nagging voice says ‘I cant do enough, so I may as well not try.’ Reading Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s response to Vivienne Westwood in the Guardian, ‘ Living ethically isn’t cheap, Vivienne ’, made my inner voice rear its ugly head again – she finishes with the words ‘people don’t seem to care … or don’t have the energy to care.
  • (13) The levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the transplantable CaNT murine tumor grown in CBA mice at various times following 5, 10, and 15 Gy X rays (100 kVp) were increased within 45 min.
  • (14) Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' Read more While the novelist blamed himself for the incident, he admitted he also blamed Winfrey.
  • (15) What you get instead is the kind of cant served up by David Cameron at last year’s Conservative conference: “It’s not the government that creates jobs.
  • (16) #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir talking about the courage he heard in his sons voice in the dispatch tape when he called to report he'd been kidnapped #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir Shaer: What courage for someone who was not yet even 17 #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir: I never pictured you'd become a hero of #Israel while still just a teen #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Gil-ad Shaers mother: I sit in your room and cant accept that our worst nightmare came true #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 2.08pm BST Israel claims its aerial bombardment of Gaza in the wake of the discovery of the bodies of the abducted teenagers was aimed at prevent further kidnappings, my colleague Matthew Weaver writes.
  • (17) He talked about its special, extra-white glass and how the canted surfaces would reflect the sky and produce "a nice light presence".
  • (18) Yen Manager: for choice we want lower libors...let the [Money Market] guys know pls Yen Trader 2: sure i am setting today as [Yen Trader 1] and cash guy off [Primary Submitter] Yen Manager: great set it nice and low Yen Trader 2: 1.02 in 6m or lower Yen Manager: yeh lower Yen Trader 2: 1.01 then cant really go much lower than that Yen Manager: ok Yen Trader 2: u care for 1m and 3m too[?]
  • (19) Another wrote: "I am backing Gatwick for a second runway but if u cant handle passenger influx with one runway, how will u handle 2??"
  • (20) Changes in the levels of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6P-DH) activity, versus tumour volume were measured in vivo under normoxic conditions in the CaNT tumours grown in CBA mice.

Tilt


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
  • (n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
  • (n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
  • (v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
  • (v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.
  • (v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.
  • (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
  • (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
  • (v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
  • (n.) A thrust, as with a lance.
  • (n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
  • (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
  • (n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
  • (2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
  • (3) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
  • (4) It appears impossible to define a "positive" tilt test that would adequately identify patients with clinically significant dehydration or blood loss; this is due to the large variance in patients' orthostatic measurements both in a healthy and in an ill state and the lack of a significant correlation of orthostatic measurements to a level of dehydration.
  • (5) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
  • (6) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
  • (7) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
  • (8) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
  • (9) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
  • (10) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
  • (11) Pulmonary ventilation parameters (breathing depth, frequency and minute volume, and alveolar ventilation) of 5 healthy male test subjects who performed a 20-minute tilt test were analyzed.
  • (12) Nonspecific baroreflex loading maneuvers such as head-down tilt readily suppress stimulated arginine vasopressin levels in normal humans.
  • (13) Meanwhile, among hepatic and systemic hemodynamics, wedged hepatic venous pressure, hepatic venous pressure gradient, free hepatic venous pressure, cardiac index, systolic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and stroke volume were found to have changed significantly after tilting.
  • (14) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
  • (15) Whole body tilt from supine to 45 degrees head-up was associated with increased heart rate and an insignificant rise in MABP in both groups, although a rise in plasma AVP occurred in control subjects only.
  • (16) During tilt, both systolic (S) blood pressure (BP) (p less than 0.01) and diastolic (D) BP (p less than 0.05) increased in HT, but not in NT.
  • (17) Three trials on the tilting plane significantly elevated the corticosterone concentration in saline-treated ANT rats, but produced no additional increase in drug-treated ANT rats.
  • (18) The transition moment either tilts further into the membrane or loses some of its axial orientation, or both.
  • (19) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
  • (20) Midodrine significantly increased the basal rate of cardiac output and attenuated the decrease in cardiac output induced by the tilt.