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tilt

noun as in lean, slope

verb as in lean, slant

verb as in attack, fight

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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.

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On this page you'll find 153 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tilt, such as: angle, inclination, leaning, slant, cant, and dip.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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