tilted

«tilted» in Mova's school dictionary: Leaning or sloping, with one side higher than the other — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (tilted); verb (past tense and past participle of tilt)

meaning for a pupil

1) Leaning or sloping, with one side higher than the other. tree →

2) The past form of "tilt": "She tilted the box." tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the Earth's axis is tilted about 23 and a half degrees, which is why we have seasons. In art and photos, a tilted picture is not straight. In stories, a tilted hat or head can show a character's mood. Phrases: tilted head, tilted axis, tilted to one side.

examples

• The picture on the wall is tilted. tree →
• He tilted the bottle and poured the juice. tree →
• The Earth spins on a tilted axis. tree →
• The dog looked at me with its head tilted. tree →
• The old fence was tilted after the storm. tree →
• She tilted the umbrella against the wind. tree →
• From shoulder to shoulder he tilted his head. tree →

note

"Tilted" is the past form of "tilt" and also an adjective. Spelling: one l, double t is not needed — t-i-l-t-e-d. The Earth's tilt, not its distance from the Sun, causes the seasons.

In the corpora

• Being «tilted» means you are so annoyed you start playing worse and worse.
• When Ollie got tilted, his team laughed, which made him angrier.
• Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and that tilt, not the distance from the Sun, causes the seasons.
• We do not get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit.
• The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tilted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.