TILTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tilted mean? 

• TILTED (adjective)
  The adjective TILTED has 1 sense:

1. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

  Familiarity information: TILTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TILTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

Synonyms:

atilt; canted; leaning; tilted; tipped

Context example:

the headstones were tilted

Similar:

inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)

 Context examples 

This deposit probably formed as snowfall accumulating into an ice sheet mixed with dust during a period in Mars history when the planet's axis was more tilted than it is today.

(Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior, NASA)

She glanced back at Dennin, but her eyes returned to the tilted plate.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Colonel Ross leaned back with his arms folded and his hat tilted over his eyes, while I listened with interest to the dialogue of the two detectives.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We suspect that Naiad was kicked into its tilted orbit by an earlier interaction with one of Neptune's other inner moons," Brozovic said.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

During this period, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun and winter snow and ice are still on the ground in the higher latitudes.

(Earthshine, NASA)

The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He glanced up at it, and then, to our amazement, he sprang from his rock, and, seizing Summerlee by the neck, he tilted his face into the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Something that a sailor needs even more than that,” answered the admiral, and turning it over he tilted a pile of acorns on to his palm.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While these tilted objects begin to reveal the three-dimensional structure within their spiral arms, fully understanding the overall shape of a spiral galaxy requires an edge-on view — such as this one of NGC 1055.

(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)

Base pairs are tilted to helix axis and displaced from axis and sugar pucker is C3'-endo (in RNA 2'-OH inhibits C2'-endo conformation).

(A-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)