"tilt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tilt verbo

tilt + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 4
tilt one's head • tilt back one's head • tilt one's face • tilt one's chin
tilt + preposición
Kolokacji: 15
tilt toward • tilt to • tilt in • tilt at • tilt up • ...
tilt + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 14
tilt forward • tilt slightly • tilt upward • tilt heavily • tilt sideways • ...
(2) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
1. tilt upward = przechylać do góry tilt upward
2. tilt downward = przechylać w dół tilt downward
  • The knife was still embedded in the guy's neck, just off-center from the Adam's apple, tilting downward.
  • The left ear opening is higher on the head than the larger right ear and tilts downward, improving sensitivity to sounds from below.
  • If the direction of swim tilts downward, hair cells in front of the normal-posture ones are stimulated.
  • A short distance astern, it seemed to tilt downward in a great swirl of waters.
  • Head tilting downward, The Shadow spied the folds of his own cloak.
  • Now he seeme to be tilting downward on the disappearing icy ledge at an angle of more than sixty degrees.
  • The prince watched as Sulu forced the mouth of the sheath to tilt downward.
  • Flanges, tilting downward, appeared along the lorry loadbeds and acid began to drop from this shield.
  • At the forward end of the rail was a rocker pin, which allowed the slats to tilt downward.
  • He noted with dismay the floor was tilting downward, which made it unlikely they were nearing the entrance.
(4) dangerously, precariously
Kolokacji: 2

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