(v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.
(v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(2) Whiskey and sugar careening through my system, I defy the orders on my ticket not to photograph anything, and I tweet a picture of the bar menu.
(3) And suddenly the whole thing is careening out of control and the fact that you put Heidi Alexander at health and Lucy Powell at education and chose your first female shadow defence secretary in Maria Eagle gets lost; because the first thing you did was to announce four white men shadowing the major offices of state, alongside another elected as deputy leader.
(4) The effect was to create a situation not unlike the careening bus in the movie Speed.
(5) Click here In the summer of 1962, all eyes were on a little magnesium and aluminium capsule, not much bigger than a beach ball, careening round the Earth in a low, egg-shaped orbit.
(6) The point is, today everyone can see that the system is deeply unjust and careening out of control.
(7) After her release from prison she has tried to explain what kind of changes she and Maria want to see in the penal system, and careened quickly and hopelessly into bureaucratese: Russian does not have a language for discussing social and legislative change any more than it has a language for discussing feminism.
(8) The American rescue squad consisted of a Toyota Land Cruiser, probably manned by fellow CIA agents, that careened through the streets towards Davis.
(9) It’s like a car where none of the gears work and you’ve no idea if you’re going at 90mph or 30mph and you’re just careening.
(10) Whether they come in time to slow the planet’s careening new physics is an open question, but at last the political and financial climate has begun to change almost as fast as the physical one.
(11) Many deliverymen do use bikes to pedal around their neighbourhoods – perhaps Cairo's most fearless road-users are the cycling bakers who careen through traffic jams balancing vast trays of bread on their heads.
(12) When the locomotive and the first three carriages have gone careening off the tracks, there's little point in checking the schedule to see if it's going to get to the station on time.
(13) Remarks that would end most political careers have only helped the New York businessman in the polls as he has careened from controversy to controversy in the past few months.
(14) Trump’s campaign has careened from controversy to controversy during a terrible week and has alienated many in his own party by pursuing an ongoing feud with the family of a fallen Iraq war hero and his initial outright refusal to endorse Paul Ryan, the highest ranking elected Republican in the United States.
(15) Then he returns to his call for cooperation: "This town has to get past its obsession with focusing on the next election instead of the next generation... "Certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."
(16) But while plans for pipelines remain in the pipeline, some experts claim Jakarta is careening towards the point of no return.
(17) There are times, watching current events unfold, when I'm convinced that we've all landed in some massive time machine that's sent the nation careening back into, say, 1963.
(18) It starts out with great promise, incredible characters, and perfectly-honed jokes before it falls victim to its own careening plot structure and becomes an absolute ludicrous mess where the characters don’t behave like themselves and arbitrary events occur with no rationalization whatsoever.
(19) Despite the lake, the Chinese government is continuing to invest in the road, participating in an upgrade programme originally supposed to cost £320m to widen and resurface a route that is notorious for vehicles, including fully loaded buses, careening into deep ravines.
(20) Jane and Bingley live just 30 miles away, Mrs Bennet remains at a conveniently inconvenient distance, and all is highly felicitous – until the night when a carriage careens out of the wind-lashed darkness and disgorges Elizabeth's wayward sister, Lydia, screaming that her husband, the nefarious Wickham, is dead.
Tilt
Definition:
(n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
(n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
(n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
(v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
(v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
(v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.
(v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.
(v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
(v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
(v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
(n.) A thrust, as with a lance.
(n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
(n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
(n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
(2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(3) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(4) It appears impossible to define a "positive" tilt test that would adequately identify patients with clinically significant dehydration or blood loss; this is due to the large variance in patients' orthostatic measurements both in a healthy and in an ill state and the lack of a significant correlation of orthostatic measurements to a level of dehydration.
(5) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
(6) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
(7) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
(8) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(9) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(10) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
(11) Pulmonary ventilation parameters (breathing depth, frequency and minute volume, and alveolar ventilation) of 5 healthy male test subjects who performed a 20-minute tilt test were analyzed.
(12) Nonspecific baroreflex loading maneuvers such as head-down tilt readily suppress stimulated arginine vasopressin levels in normal humans.
(13) Meanwhile, among hepatic and systemic hemodynamics, wedged hepatic venous pressure, hepatic venous pressure gradient, free hepatic venous pressure, cardiac index, systolic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and stroke volume were found to have changed significantly after tilting.
(14) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(15) Whole body tilt from supine to 45 degrees head-up was associated with increased heart rate and an insignificant rise in MABP in both groups, although a rise in plasma AVP occurred in control subjects only.
(16) During tilt, both systolic (S) blood pressure (BP) (p less than 0.01) and diastolic (D) BP (p less than 0.05) increased in HT, but not in NT.
(17) Three trials on the tilting plane significantly elevated the corticosterone concentration in saline-treated ANT rats, but produced no additional increase in drug-treated ANT rats.
(18) The transition moment either tilts further into the membrane or loses some of its axial orientation, or both.
(19) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
(20) Midodrine significantly increased the basal rate of cardiac output and attenuated the decrease in cardiac output induced by the tilt.