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tilting

/tilt/US // tɪlt //UK // (tɪlt) //

倾斜,倾斜的,倾斜度,倾斜性

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
    • : to rush at or charge, as in a joust.
    • : to hold poised for attack, as a lance.
    • : to move up or down on its vertical axis for photographing or televising a moving character, object, or the like.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to move into or assume a sloping position or direction.
    • : to strike, thrust, or charge with a lance or the like.
    • : to engage in a joust, tournament, or similar contest.
    • : to move on its vertical axis: The camera tilts downward for an overhead shot.
    • : to incline in opinion, feeling, etc.; lean: She's tilting toward the other candidate this year.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of tilting.
    • : the state of being tilted; a sloping position.
    • : a slope.
    • : a joust or any other contest.
    • : a dispute; controversy.
    • : a thrust of a weapon, as at a tilt or joust.
    • : the angle formed by the direction of aim of a camera and a perpendicular to the surface of the earth.

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Examples

  • Second, you can compare the partisan tilt of the old maps and the new maps at a glance via the two waffle charts below the map.

  • It wobbles, the angle of its tilt changes and even its orbit changes to bring the Earth closer to or farther from the Sun.

  • Cloud Massage The Cloud Massage Shiatsu Foot Massager Machine features a platform with a tilt bar.

  • It just was orchestrated within an inch of its life, where every tilt of the head and smile seemed like it was running a carefully executed program.

  • Taylor-Johnson said that Freeman, whose voice also begins each episode, would introduce slight, subtle moves that place his performance into believable reality — such as a backward tilt of the head as he ponders a response to his scene partner.

  • Dinosaurs like Donald Sterling draw the ire of Americans, regardless of political affiliation or ideological tilt.

  • Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.

  • When out and about, if we feel threatened, as we always do, we tilt our heads back and cry out, “ALL THE SINGLE LADIES!”

  • This tilt towards of the financial elites, as Elizabeth Warren has noted, occurred during both the Bush and Obama Administrations.

  • The solution could be right at your fingertips, with a simple tilt of a glass.

  • Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

  • Then when my hair had been parted and smoothed down, I crowned myself with my campaign hat at the dashingest possible tilt.

  • In the pitchy darkness, the messenger encounters him, and running full tilt against him, knocks the bunch of keys into the mud.

  • He looked at Mandleco with immense disdain, gave a pert tilt of his head and surveyed the room with a grimace of distaste.

  • I resolved, however, another time, never to tilt with a French lady in compliment.