I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ran full tilt
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She ran full tilt into his arms.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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Sheila's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss.
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The rock-walled chimney slid downward, she floated toward the surface with her head tilted back , impatient for the upper world.
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The pose chosen - with head tilted back and neck exposed - is vulnerable and defiant simultaneously.
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She attempted a smile, head tilted back , long-sighted eyes drained of most of their blue by the afternoon light.
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He lay there, a saline drip in his arm, his head tilted back and held in a vice-like contraption.
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His head was tilted back and his nostrils were flaring.
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His chair was tilted back as far as it would go.
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Their rough caps are tilted back .
slightly
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You're tilted slightly , and spinning, but you're still attached.
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A black, felt bowler sits on his head, tilted slightly forward at a rakish angle.
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The tails should tilt slightly upwards.
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Her eyes had narrowed and her head tilted slightly to the side.
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Each subject's upper body was tilted slightly to provide comfortable drinking.
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These seasonal changes arise because our planet's axis is not vertical but tilted slightly .
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Try to keep your body upright, but slightly tilting forward so you do not arch your back.
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The red-and-white skull-cap had tilted slightly .
■ NOUN
balance
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But the balance can easily tilt back again.
chin
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It caught on his chin as he tilted his head up and drew in a breath of salted air.
face
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He took her chin between thumb and forefinger, tilting her mutinous face up for his cool inspection.
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His hand was shaky when he held her cheek and tilted her face towards him.
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As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.
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The hand in her hair was caressing her gently, and imperceptibly tilting her face towards his.
head
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He gave no reply, just stood there, his back to them, his head tilted backwards and upwards.
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His head tilted to the side in amused bewilderment.
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Sheila's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss.
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As opposed to Ralph, who, head tilted , mouth slack, looked for all the world like some one in love.
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The pose chosen - with head tilted back and neck exposed - is vulnerable and defiant simultaneously.
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The rock-walled chimney slid downward, she floated toward the surface with her head tilted back, impatient for the upper world.
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Despite the ligature, her head tilted forward an inch.
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Her head is tilted to one side.
pelvis
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Interlink hands and stretch up, tilting the pelvis .
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Stretching up with hands interlinked, tilt the pelvis and hold for 5 counts. 3.
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Take care not to tilt your pelvis forward.
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He may practise selective pelvic movements, in which he isolates the actions of tilting the pelvis backwards, towards and sideways.
side
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When you have reached the lees, leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side .
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His head tilted to the side in amused bewilderment.
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It was tilted to one side and nose down.
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Her head is tilted to one side .
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The neck may be held stiffly or tilted to one side owing to muscle spasm. 2.
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Her eyes had narrowed and her head tilted slightly to the side .
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He tilted from side to side, indicating so-so.
windmill
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But Woodhead's art was to tilt at windmills .
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Commitment and dedication remained, but tilting at windmills had to stop.
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While the Hague event may seem to be an exercise in tilting at windmills , the opposite may also be true.
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Gloriously but illogically they rode off to tilt at another windmill .
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For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables.
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I felt that just by being there I was tilting at windmills .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(at) full tilt/pelt
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For old-style feel playing, I found this by far the best and most controllable overdrive setting, even on full tilt.
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He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
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He scrambled to his feet and charged full tilt down the side of the dell.
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Martin moved after it, slowly at first, but then faster and faster until he was running full tilt after the intruder.
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Meanwhile, production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt.
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Milan is usually still, the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain.
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She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.
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This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Tilt the pan so that the sauce covers the bottom.
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Carl tilted his head and looked sideways at her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He made another round of the tower, standing on tiptoe to tilt the angle of the glasses downward toward the valley.
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Interlink hands and stretch up, tilting the pelvis.
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She tilted her chin upwards and put on her loftiest expression.
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The Senate may tilt the odds even further this week.
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When you have reached the lees, leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side.
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Without speaking a word, the collective keeps tilting the plane.
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Yet even as I watched, the gold leaf tilted slowly down toward the vertical, at ever-increasing speed.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.
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This was deep reading at full tilt , a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
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He scrambled to his feet and charged full tilt down the side of the dell.
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Milan is usually still, the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain.
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Meanwhile, production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt .
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For old-style feel playing, I found this by far the best and most controllable overdrive setting, even on full tilt .
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Martin moved after it, slowly at first, but then faster and faster until he was running full tilt after the intruder.
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He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
■ VERB
run
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She was right at the end when, without warning, she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure.
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He just felt as if he'd run full tilt into a brick wall.
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She had run full tilt into somebody.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a questioning tilt of the head
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We're seeing a tilt in the balance of military power.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the postwar generation of faculty generally had a strong leftward tilt .
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And then he noticed the step-ladder, abandoned quickly, left in a precarious tilt against a column of boxes.
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As the boats have got shorter the directional instability increased but our ability to correct it with tilt decreased.
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For years, the female tilt toward the Democrats was balanced by disproportionate white male support for Republicans.
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He noticed the change of pitch in the engine noise and the slight tilt of the aircraft as it began its descent.
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The dance of the bees has a repertoire of wiggles and tilts and speeds.