Crisis situations tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president.tilt1 verbtilt2 noun
tilttilt1 /tɪlt/ ●○○ verb [intransitive, transitive] 
WORD ORIGINtilt1
Origin:
1300-1400 Perhaps from a Scandinavian languageVERB TABLE
tilt
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | tilt |
| he, she, it | tilts | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tilted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tilted |
| he, she, it | has tilted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tilted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will tilt |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tilted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am tilting |
| he, she, it | is tilting | |
| you, we, they | are tilting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was tilting |
| you, we, they | were tilting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tilting |
| he, she, it | has been tilting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tilting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tilting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tilting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Tilt the pan so that the sauce covers the bottom.
- Carl tilted his head and looked sideways at her.
- He made another round of the tower, standing on tiptoe to tilt the angle of the glasses downward toward the valley.
- Interlink hands and stretch up, tilting the pelvis.
- She tilted her chin upwards and put on her loftiest expression.
- The Senate may tilt the odds even further this week.
- When you have reached the lees, leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side.
- Without speaking a word, the collective keeps tilting the plane.
- Yet even as I watched, the gold leaf tilted slowly down toward the vertical, at ever-increasing speed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Crisis situations tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She ran full tilt into his arms.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
Crisis situations tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president. She ran full tilt into his arms.· Sheila's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss.· The rock-walled chimney slid downward, she floated toward the surface with her head tilted back, impatient for the upper world.· The pose chosen - with head tilted back and neck exposed - is vulnerable and defiant simultaneously.· She attempted a smile, head tilted back, long-sighted eyes drained of most of their blue by the afternoon light.· He lay there, a saline drip in his arm, his head tilted back and held in a vice-like contraption.· His head was tilted back and his nostrils were flaring.· His chair was tilted back as far as it would go.· Their rough caps are tilted back.
· You're tilted slightly, and spinning, but you're still attached.· A black, felt bowler sits on his head, tilted slightly forward at a rakish angle.· The tails should tilt slightly upwards.· Her eyes had narrowed and her head tilted slightly to the side.· Each subject's upper body was tilted slightly to provide comfortable drinking.· These seasonal changes arise because our planet's axis is not vertical but tilted slightly.· Try to keep your body upright, but slightly tilting forward so you do not arch your back.· The red-and-white skull-cap had tilted slightly.
NOUN· But the balance can easily tilt back again.
· It caught on his chin as he tilted his head up and drew in a breath of salted air.
· He took her chin between thumb and forefinger, tilting her mutinous face up for his cool inspection.· His hand was shaky when he held her cheek and tilted her face towards him.· As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.· The hand in her hair was caressing her gently, and imperceptibly tilting her face towards his.
· He gave no reply, just stood there, his back to them, his head tilted backwards and upwards.· His head tilted to the side in amused bewilderment.· Sheila's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss.· As opposed to Ralph, who, head tilted, mouth slack, looked for all the world like some one in love.· The pose chosen - with head tilted back and neck exposed - is vulnerable and defiant simultaneously.· The rock-walled chimney slid downward, she floated toward the surface with her head tilted back, impatient for the upper world.· Despite the ligature, her head tilted forward an inch.· Her head is tilted to one side.
· Interlink hands and stretch up, tilting the pelvis.· Stretching up with hands interlinked, tilt the pelvis and hold for 5 counts. 3.· Take care not to tilt your pelvis forward.· He may practise selective pelvic movements, in which he isolates the actions of tilting the pelvis backwards, towards and sideways.
· When you have reached the lees, leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side.· His head tilted to the side in amused bewilderment.· It was tilted to one side and nose down.· Her head is tilted to one side.· The neck may be held stiffly or tilted to one side owing to muscle spasm. 2.· Her eyes had narrowed and her head tilted slightly to the side.· He tilted from side to side, indicating so-so.
· But Woodhead's art was to tilt at windmills.· Commitment and dedication remained, but tilting at windmills had to stop.· While the Hague event may seem to be an exercise in tilting at windmills, the opposite may also be true.· Gloriously but illogically they rode off to tilt at another windmill.· For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables.· I felt that just by being there I was tilting at windmills.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to move a part of your body, especially your head or chin, upwards or to the side SYN tip: - Manning admits he was tilting at windmills in trying to change the nation's prison system.
- But Woodhead's art was to tilt at windmills.
- Commitment and dedication remained, but tilting at windmills had to stop.
- For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables.
- I felt that just by being there I was tilting at windmills.
- While the Hague event may seem to be an exercise in tilting at windmills, the opposite may also be true.
- For old-style feel playing, I found this by far the best and most controllable overdrive setting, even on full tilt.
- He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
- He scrambled to his feet and charged full tilt down the side of the dell.
- Martin moved after it, slowly at first, but then faster and faster until he was running full tilt after the intruder.
- Meanwhile, production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt.
- Milan is usually still, the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain.
- She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.
- This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
My mother tilted her head and smiled. Ned’s mouth tilted upwards slightly at the corners.2to move or make something move into a position where one side is higher than the other SYN tip: As it came in to land, the plane tilted sideways. The man was tilting his chair back.3if an opinion or situation tilts, or if something tilts it, it changes so that people start to prefer one person, belief, or action to others: Crisis situations tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president.tilt toward/towards Government tax policy has tilted toward industrial development.tilt at somebody/something phrasal verb1to attack someone in what you say or write2tilt at windmills to waste time and energy attacking an enemy that is not realtilt1 verbtilt2 noun
tilttilt2 noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a questioning tilt of the head
- We're seeing a tilt in the balance of military power.
- And the postwar generation of faculty generally had a strong leftward tilt.
- And then he noticed the step-ladder, abandoned quickly, left in a precarious tilt against a column of boxes.
- As the boats have got shorter the directional instability increased but our ability to correct it with tilt decreased.
- For years, the female tilt toward the Democrats was balanced by disproportionate white male support for Republicans.
- He noticed the change of pitch in the engine noise and the slight tilt of the aircraft as it began its descent.
- The dance of the bees has a repertoire of wiggles and tilts and speeds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a slight tilt of the headCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She ran full tilt into his arms.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a slight tilt of the head She ran full tilt into his arms.· She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.· This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.· He scrambled to his feet and charged full tilt down the side of the dell.· Milan is usually still, the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain.· Meanwhile, production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt.· For old-style feel playing, I found this by far the best and most controllable overdrive setting, even on full tilt.· Martin moved after it, slowly at first, but then faster and faster until he was running full tilt after the intruder.· He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
VERB· She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.· He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.· She had run full tilt into somebody.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1(at) full tilt as fast as possible: - Our factories are running at full tilt.
- For old-style feel playing, I found this by far the best and most controllable overdrive setting, even on full tilt.
- He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
- He scrambled to his feet and charged full tilt down the side of the dell.
- Martin moved after it, slowly at first, but then faster and faster until he was running full tilt after the intruder.
- Meanwhile, production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt.
- Milan is usually still, the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain.
- She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.
- This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
- For old-style feel playing, I found this by far the best and most controllable overdrive setting, even on full tilt.
- He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
- He scrambled to his feet and charged full tilt down the side of the dell.
- Martin moved after it, slowly at first, but then faster and faster until he was running full tilt after the intruder.
- Meanwhile, production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt.
- Milan is usually still, the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain.
- She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.
- This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
He charged full tilt down the slope.2[countable, uncountable] a movement or position in which one side of something is higher than the other: a slight tilt of the head3[countable] a preference for one person, belief, or action over otherstilt toward/towards the recent tilt toward the Democrats4[countable] British English an attempt to win somethingtilt at The team is preparing for another tilt at the European Cup.5[countable] a spoken or written attack on someone or something