Word Finder - tilted

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To slope or incline (something); to slant.

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Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

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(jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.

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To be at an angle.

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To point or thrust a weapon at.

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To point or thrust (a weapon).

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To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

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to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

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To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

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(of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

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To cover with a tilt, or awning.

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Of a vehicle, fitted with a tilt (canvass covering).

He tilted his head to the side.

He nuzzled her neck, and she tilted her head.

DeLeo tilted his head back, finishing the last of his coffee.

He gripped her neck and tilted her head.

Breathing ragged, she tilted her head in submission.

Xander crossed his arms, his head tilted in interest as he listened.

Overwhelmed, she instinctively tilted her head in submission, exposing her neck to him.

She tilted her head to the side, exposing the delicate skin on her neck in an unmistakable invitation to the demon side of her mate.

His warm breath on her neck made her shiver, and she instinctively tilted her head.

She moved close to the bars and sat, never losing his gaze, then tilted her head and let out a soft whimper.

Jackson tilted his head and pursed his lips.

Many of them are fault block mountains, the crust having been broken and the blocks tilted so that there is a steep face on one side and a gentle slope on the other.

Jackson pursed his lips and tilted his head slightly.

He tilted his head in a sign of genuine curiosity.

The demon lord glanced at the dealer and tilted his head to the side.

He tilted his head towards one cabinet in response.

And then the car slowly tilted toward the gaping canyon below.

Half a head shorter than Xander, Jule was speaking quietly to the vamp, whose arms were crossed and head tilted in consideration.

At the feel of his hot breath on her neck, she tilted her head.

He tilted his again.

Wynn took her chin and tilted her face up.

Gabriel cupped her face in his large hands and tilted it up.

Darkyn gripped her neck with one hand and tilted her head to the side.

Swallowing hard, she tilted her head to one side in a display she hoped he took to be an apology.

Connor tilted his glass to Jackson in a thank you, his other arm draped around his blubbering bride.

The unmistakable snap of wires reached them, and the helicopter tilted.

Xander tilted his head to the side, following the teenaged God with his senses.

This apparatus has an oil-cup consisting of a cylindrical brass or gunmetal vessel, the cover of which is provided with three rectangular holes which may be closed and opened by means of a perforated slide moving in grooves; the movement of the slide causes a small oscillating colzaor rape-oil lamp to be tilted so that the flame (of specified size) is brought just below the surface of the lid.

If a small alternating current is passed through one wire, it sags down, the mirror is tilted, and the spot of light on the screen is displaced.

The fire underneath the pot is again started, the crystals are liquefied, and one of the two pans, filled with melted lead, is tilted by means of the crane and its contents poured into the pot.

When, the region was broken into fault blocks and the blocks were uplifted and tilted, the back slope of each block was a part of the previously eroded surface and the face of the block was a surface of fracture; the present form of the higher blocks is more or less affected by erosion since faulting, while many of the lower blocks have been buried under the waste of the higher ones.

Over the interior the strata are nearly horizontal, but in the mountain regions of the east and west, as well as in the mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, they are tilted and folded, and locally much metamorphosed.

The strata are now tilted and much faulted, though but little folded.

The Dakota formation is largely sandstone, which gives rise to hogbacks where it has been tilted, indurated and exposed to erosion along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains.

The outer ranges in Alberta have usually the form of tilted blocks with a steep cliff towards the north-east and a gentler slope, corresponding to the dip of the beds, towards the south-west.

Geologically and structurally Cyrenaica is a mass of Miocene limestone tilted up steeply from the Mediterranean and falling inland by a gentle descent to sea-level again at the line of depression, which runs from the gulf of Sidra through Aujila to Siwa.

They rest unconformably upon the Carboniferous beds, and have themselves been tilted to a steep angle.

Like the Heroult furnace, the Kjellin furnace may be lined with either magnesite or chromite, and it may be tilted for the purpose of pouring off slag and metal.

In the east part of the state is the magnificent Sierra Nevada, a great block of the earth's crust, faulted along its eastern side and tilted up so as to have a gentle back slope to the west and a steep fault escarpment facing east, the finest mountain system of the United States.

Thus, we find them more frequently, folded, tilted and cleaved; the muds have become shales, slates, phyllites or schists, the grey and red sands and conglomerates have become quartzites and greywackes, while the limestones are very generally dolomitized.

Before use the strip is for one moment connected to the case, and the arrangement is then tilted until the strip extends at a certain angle.

If this couple be absent, the axis will be tilted out of the horizontal plane in such a sense that the direction of the spin n approxi mates to that of the azimuthal rota- K

In order to get rid of this fluid, called " pasewa " or " pussewah," the opium is placed in a shallow earthen vessel tilted on one side, and the pussewah drained off.

If any one watches a bird rising from the ground or the water, he cannot fail to perceive that the head and body are slightly tilted upwards, and that the wings are made to descend with great vigour in a downward and forward direction.

High overhead, like a gigantic awning, was the slightly concavo-convex main aeroplane, tilted towards the front at an imperceptible angle, and stretched taut.

The mountain ranges of the Basin Region are most frequently formed by faulted and tilted blocks of the earth's crust, which have been carved by stream erosion into rugged shapes.

When the case which holds the machine is adjusted hori - zontally by means of its foot - screws, and the weights in the pans are equal, the beams remain perfectly horizontal; but with the slightest difference of weight in the pans the beams are tilted, and the elastic resistance of the springs to torsion allows the beams to take up a definite position of equi - librium.

In the lower division the hills are all tilted up towards the east, and broad streams of lava have flowed Lower over the plateau above the sea of Galilee.

The mountains are tilted up towards the Sea of Galilee, and the drainage of the district is towards the north-west.

Bird Song's balance sheet remained out of balance, still tilted toward the red side.