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Significats de atilt en anglès

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

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Examples for "leaning"
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The current left-leaning government may struggle to encourage investment and implement reforms.
Reuters
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And there's no right side or wrong side leaning on this issue.
The Guardian
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The conservative-leaning court in recent years has rolled back campaign finance restrictions.
Reuters
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Among left-leaning voters, support for his return is at 60 per cent.
The Irish Times
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Sutton, however, appears to be in good shape in her Democratic-leaning district.
Reuters
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For example, the New York Times recently tipped its hat to Boston.
News.com.au
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In fact, television irreversibly tipped the balance in favor of the visual.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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Precisely identifying the point when that confidence tipped into arrogance is difficult.
The Irish Times
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Familiar names, however, are tipped to take off with the winners' trophies.
Reuters
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OPINION:My Ennahda party is tipped to do well in Tunisia's historic election.
The Irish Times
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The political weight is tilted heavily towards emerging economies and developing nations.
The Guardian
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They were, we thought, tilted to one provider in particular, he said.
Reuters
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Critics say his business policies are tilted in favour of the rich.
News.com.au
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Diana tilted her body forward; she seemed to be lit from within.
Acts of faith
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She was tilted back in it with a book in her hands.
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
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The deck canted over and Dunstan said, Bring her up a point!
Honour This Day
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The main-mast canted to leeward, and was in imminent danger of falling.
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1
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He had flown a tricky, wing-down approach, skidding along the canted terrain.
Genellan: planetfall
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It stands on deck canted one side but is otherwise reasonably unscathed.
The South African
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A set of rotting canted docks stretched out from the shore beneath.
Return of the Crimson Guard
Ús de atilt en anglès
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Each rested atilt, one wing on the ground, the other extending into the air.
Good things I wish you
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On one of the trees a robin sang and watched him with its head atilt.
Mary Minds Her Business
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When I looked up he was atilt upon the branch of an apple tree near by.
My Robin
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The arrows first, had been his hope, and then this silent vulture, atilt in the purple tides.
As It Was in the Beginning
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Duskily-lashed eyes of dark violet were brimming with a contagious energy and her rounded chin was splendidly atilt.
A Pagan of the Hills
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Near the house torches lined the driveway, some still lit, a few atilt and smoking, but most burned out.
Venus In Copper
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In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.
A Traveller in War-Time
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Diana had worked with a very rapid lens and had caught them atilt, in the full abandonment of the child to joy in motion.
The Enchanted Canyon
Atilt a través del temps