tilting

Collocations

4

ADJ.

adjustable, anti-environmental

VERB + TILTING

began, cooled, damage, fetch, like, lobby, loves, prevents

TILTING + NOUN

antenna, ourselves, windmills

PREP.

into, towards

Definitions

noun

1

The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.

2

The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

3

A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.

[…] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.

adj

1

Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its di

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Example Bank

6

01

[…] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings

Wiktionary

02

It's like tilting at windmills.

Tatoeba · #4983072

03

Landing on the moon involves reducing the velocity at which the lander comes down to ensure a touchdown so soft that it prevents damage, tilting or crashing.

Tatoeba · #8240699

04

We risk tilting ourselves into a downward spiral of defeatism.

Tatoeba · #8295571

05

He's tilting at windmills.

Tatoeba · #9988810

06

The anti-environmental lobby loves tilting at windmills.

Tatoeba · #11021442