tilt
v.v. to move or lean into a sloping position. You use this when you tip something to one side.
v. to cause to lean, incline, or slope by lifting one side or end. Often describes a physical movement or a shift in perspective.
Tilt your head to the side to see the picture better.
The photographer decided to tilt the camera slightly to create a more dynamic and interesting composition.
The earth's axis is at a constant tilt, which is the primary reason we experience the changing of the seasons as we orbit the sun.
From Middle English tilte, from Old English tyltan, tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”). 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. The sense of gaming frustration is said to originate with pinball.
From Middle English telte, tield, teld, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Proto-West Germanic teld, from Proto-Germanic teldą (“tent”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Low German telt, or Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.
The verb is both transitive ('tilt the camera') and intransitive ('the floor tilts').