Dictionary entry

Tilt at windmills

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) ကောင်းကင်တက်လက်ဝှေ့သတ်သည်။

Definition

tilt /tÇlt/ v တိမ္းသည္။ ယိမ္းသည္။ ေစာင္းသည္။ ငဲ့သည္။ This table tends to tilt (to one side/ over). ❍ ( fig ) Popular opinion has tilted (in favour of the Socialists). ❍ She sat listening, with her head tilted slightly to one side. ❍ Don't tilt your chair or you'll fall over! ❍ Tilt the barrel forward to empty it. n (usu sing ) ၁။ တိမ္းျခင္း။ ေစာင္းျခင္း။ with a tilt of his head ❍ the table is on/ at a slight tilt. ၂။ ေဝဖန္တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္း။ have a tilt at sb. ❏ tilt at sb/sth [ PHRV ] ေဝဖန္တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ a satirical magazine tilting at public figures. ❏ tilt at windmills [ IDM ] ေကာင္းကင္တက္ လက္ေဝွ႔သတ္သည္။

Examples

  1. She tilted the bowl to pour the mixture out.
  2. The tray was tilted at an angle.
  3. Suddenly the boat started to tilt.
  4. She was sitting with her head tilted slightly back.
  5. [tilt the balance towards/in favour of someone] : Excellent performances from the opening batsmen have tilted the balance in favour of the home side.