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TILTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
Example:
the headstones were tilted
Synonyms:
atilt; canted; leaning; tilted; tipped
Classified under:
Similar:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb tilt
Context examples:
Computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine included show there should be more objects tilted with respect to the solar plane.
(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)
Its orbit is also tilted a little, causing it to bob up and then down once each year through Earth's orbital plane.
(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)
TESS did not observe transits from this planet, which suggests its orbit is slightly tilted — perhaps by less than 1 degree — relative to the hot Earth’s orbit, so it never passes across the star from our perspective.
(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)
So fierce had this final struggle become that the sailor paused in the act of flinging more water over him and stared curiously, the canvas bucket partly tilted and dripping its contents to the deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
With this, she tilted some of the contents of the little bottle on to one of the little bits of flannel, and, again imparting some of the virtues of that preparation to one of the little brushes, began rubbing and scraping away with both on the crown of Steerforth's head in the busiest manner I ever witnessed, talking all the time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes sent off a short wire and for the rest of the drive lay back in the cab, with his hat tilted over his nose to keep the sun from his face.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This tilted plate fascinated her. Why did it not fall down? It was ridiculous.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Summerlee had been so interested that he had stood unresisting while Challenger tilted his head into the air.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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