Stilt
noun
A long, skinny pole used to elevate something or someone above the ground.
He was walking on stilts at the circus
Often appears as...
- walking on stilts
- circus stilts
noun
A type of bird with long legs and a long neck that wades in water.
We watched the stilts hunt for food in the shallow water
Often appears as...
- black-winged stilt
- stilt bird
noun
A long, skinny pole used to elevate something or someone above the ground.
He was walking on stilts at the circus
Often appears as...
- walking on stilts
- circus stilts
noun
A type of bird with long legs and a long neck that wades in water.
We watched the stilts hunt for food in the shallow water
Often appears as...
- black-winged stilt
- stilt bird
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Pro Tip 1/3Performance Tool
Often used for entertainment, walking on stilts requires balance and is popular in performances.
The performer amazed everyone by juggling while on stilts.
Pro Tip 2/3Elevation Purpose
Stilts raise people or objects to reach high places in construction or for a better view.
Using stilts, the painter easily reached the top of the mural.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Festivities
In some cultures, stilts are integral in traditional dances, celebrations, and ceremonies.
At the festival, dancers on stilts moved to the rhythm of drums.
Pro Tip 1/3Performance Tool
Often used for entertainment, walking on stilts requires balance and is popular in performances.
The performer amazed everyone by juggling while on stilts.
Pro Tip 2/3Elevation Purpose
Stilts raise people or objects to reach high places in construction or for a better view.
Using stilts, the painter easily reached the top of the mural.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Festivities
In some cultures, stilts are integral in traditional dances, celebrations, and ceremonies.
At the festival, dancers on stilts moved to the rhythm of drums.
Pro Tip 1/3Performance Tool
Often used for entertainment, walking on stilts requires balance and is popular in performances.
The performer amazed everyone by juggling while on stilts.
Pro Tip 2/3Elevation Purpose
Stilts raise people or objects to reach high places in construction or for a better view.
Using stilts, the painter easily reached the top of the mural.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Festivities
In some cultures, stilts are integral in traditional dances, celebrations, and ceremonies.
At the festival, dancers on stilts moved to the rhythm of drums.
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The genius puppetry...
where we made a piece about a tall giraffe. It was just called "Tall Horse," which was a life-sized giraffe. And here again, you see the same structure. The bulkheads have now turned into hoops of cane, but it's ultimately the same structure. It's got two people inside it on stilts, which give them the height,
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Where will you be able...
So to stay with their communities, many have moved a few meters inland and built more resilient homes on higher ground or elevated stilts. Others have tried to buy land on newly emerging islands in the delta, while some have sent family members to find work in nearby cities.
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Cory Richards: Pushing...
That's a very important story. Why? Because as people stop moving, they start to impact the area they're in heavily. Now that they're in stilt villages, they start to overfish their reefs. They start to overuse their resources. How do they do that? They use net fishing.
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Safari Live - Day 352 PIPE...
leopard stilted and do anything which just goes to show that the presence of tasks the presence of some sort of device on an animal is even a good-enough deterrent and also obviously sighs couldn't have to turn to to protect something from a predator
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Artemisia Gentileschi:...
and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison. And yet this isn't even her most celebrated painting of the scene.
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How one design flaw...
the new skyscraper had to be built on columns supporting it, like stilts. Using stilts on a building’s corners wasn’t unheard of, but because the church stood at the corner of the block, these stilts had to be placed at the center of each side.
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The Secret Life of...
like stilts which is actually a crucial adaptation for soft swampy soil narupa says the rain forest is full of little innovations like this sometimes they're wily sometimes they're beautiful but each one shows just how clever plant life can be
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It's not fair having 12...
And I said, "I know. Isn't it fun?" I mean, it's a little bit like wearing stilts on stilts, but I have an entirely new relationship to door jams that I never expected I would ever have. And I was having fun with it. And she looked at me,
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The sharks that hunt in...
Once they’ve settled down, mangroves deploy tall, skinny stilt roots, crutch-like prop roots or wavy buttress roots, to support themselves in their unsteady terrain. These newly established mangroves have to contend with two additional
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What to do if you see a...
because of the permafrost you can't really build anything on the ground here so what you'll see is that all the houses are on stilts longer bein is home to three kindergartens and the world's northernmost school
Video examples
The genius puppetry...
where we made a piece about a tall giraffe. It was just called "Tall Horse," which was a life-sized giraffe. And here again, you see the same structure. The bulkheads have now turned into hoops of cane, but it's ultimately the same structure. It's got two people inside it on stilts, which give them the height,
Video examples
Where will you be able...
So to stay with their communities, many have moved a few meters inland and built more resilient homes on higher ground or elevated stilts. Others have tried to buy land on newly emerging islands in the delta, while some have sent family members to find work in nearby cities.
Video examples
Cory Richards: Pushing...
That's a very important story. Why? Because as people stop moving, they start to impact the area they're in heavily. Now that they're in stilt villages, they start to overfish their reefs. They start to overuse their resources. How do they do that? They use net fishing.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 352 PIPE...
leopard stilted and do anything which just goes to show that the presence of tasks the presence of some sort of device on an animal is even a good-enough deterrent and also obviously sighs couldn't have to turn to to protect something from a predator
Video examples
Artemisia Gentileschi:...
and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison. And yet this isn't even her most celebrated painting of the scene.
Video examples
How one design flaw...
the new skyscraper had to be built on columns supporting it, like stilts. Using stilts on a building’s corners wasn’t unheard of, but because the church stood at the corner of the block, these stilts had to be placed at the center of each side.
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
like stilts which is actually a crucial adaptation for soft swampy soil narupa says the rain forest is full of little innovations like this sometimes they're wily sometimes they're beautiful but each one shows just how clever plant life can be
Video examples
It's not fair having 12...
And I said, "I know. Isn't it fun?" I mean, it's a little bit like wearing stilts on stilts, but I have an entirely new relationship to door jams that I never expected I would ever have. And I was having fun with it. And she looked at me,
Video examples
The sharks that hunt in...
Once they’ve settled down, mangroves deploy tall, skinny stilt roots, crutch-like prop roots or wavy buttress roots, to support themselves in their unsteady terrain. These newly established mangroves have to contend with two additional
Video examples
What to do if you see a...
because of the permafrost you can't really build anything on the ground here so what you'll see is that all the houses are on stilts longer bein is home to three kindergartens and the world's northernmost school
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Ato Essandoh
American Actor
If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.
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Mark Duplass
American Director
If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.
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Joanna Coles
American Editor
People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.
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Joachim Frank
American Scientist
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
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Mary Quant
English Designer
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
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Leon Askin
Austrian Actor
A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
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Nigel Farage
British Politician
Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.
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Carlos Alazraqui
American Actor
Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
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Aimee Mullins
American Athlete
It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
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Walter Savage Landor
English Poet
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Quote examples
Ato Essandoh
American Actor
If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.
Quote examples
Mark Duplass
American Director
If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.
Quote examples
Joanna Coles
American Editor
People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.
Quote examples
Joachim Frank
American Scientist
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
Quote examples
Mary Quant
English Designer
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
Quote examples
Leon Askin
Austrian Actor
A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
Quote examples
Nigel Farage
British Politician
Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.
Quote examples
Carlos Alazraqui
American Actor
Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
Quote examples
Aimee Mullins
American Athlete
It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
Quote examples
Walter Savage Landor
English Poet
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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