Difference between Tilt and Careen

What is the difference between Tilt and Careen?

Tilt as a verb is to slope or incline (something); to slant while Careen as a verb is to heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.

Tilt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to slope or incline (something); to slant (jousting) to charge (at someone) with a lance to forge (something) with a tilt hammer to play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a slope or inclination a joust a canvas covering for carts etc.

Example sentence: I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.

Careen

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.To tilt on one side.To lurch or sway violently from side to side.To tilt or lean while in motion.To career.

We hope you now know whether to use Tilt or Careen in your sentence.

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