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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#m1)

2) The past form of "tilt": "She tilted the box." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x1)
- He tilted the bottle and poured the juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x2)
- The Earth spins on a tilted axis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x3)
- The dog looked at me with its head tilted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x4)
- The old fence was tilted after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x5)
- She tilted the umbrella against the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x6)
- From shoulder to shoulder he tilted his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/11/)
- [When Ollie got tilted, his team laughed, which made him angrier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/12/)
- [Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and that tilt, not the distance from the Sun, causes the seasons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/10/)
- [We do not get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/12/)
- [The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tilted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tilted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.