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slow

[sloh]

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adjective

moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.

characterized by lack of speed: a slow pace.

taking or requiring a comparatively long time for completion: a slow meal; a slow trip.

requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, or occurring; gradual: a plant of slow growth.

sluggish in nature, disposition, or function.

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dull of perception or understanding; mentally dull: a slow child.

not prompt, readily disposed, or in haste (usually followed by to or an infinitive): slow to anger; slow to take offense.

burning or heating with little speed or intensity, as a fire or an oven.

slack; not busy: The market was slow today.

10.

having some quality that retards speed or causes movement, progress, work, etc., to be accomplished at less than the usual or expected rate of speed: a slow, careful worker; a slow road.

11.

running at less than the proper rate of speed or registering less than the proper time, as a clock.

12.

passing heavily or dragging, as time: It's been a slow afternoon.

13.

not progressive; behind the times: a slow town.

14.

dull, humdrum, uninteresting, or tedious: What a slow party!

15.

Photography. requiring long exposure, as by having a small lens diameter or low film sensitivity: a slow lens or film.

16.

(of the surface of a race track) sticky from a fairly recent rain and in the process of drying out.

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adverb

17.

in a slow manner; slowly: Drive slow.

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Slow is always a great word to know.

So is silent. Does it mean:

in the editing or projection of film, any situation in which the sound does not correspond to the lip movements of an actor

not having spoken dialogue or a soundtrack

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verb (used with object)

18.

to make slow or slower (often followed by up or down).

19.

to retard; reduce the advancement or progress of: His illness slowed him at school.

verb (used without object)

20.

to become slow or slower; slacken in speed (often followed by up or down).

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English slāw sluggish, dull; cognate with Dutch sleeuw; compare sloth

Related forms

slow·ly, adverb

slow·ness, noun

o·ver·slow, adjective

o·ver·slow·ly, adverb

o·ver·slow·ness, noun

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ul·tra·slow, adjective

ul·tra·slow·ly, adverb

un·slow, adjective

un·slow·ly, adverb

un·slow·ness, noun

un·slowed, adjective

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Synonyms
1, 2. unhurried. Slow, deliberate, gradual, leisurely mean unhurried and not happening rapidly. That which is slow acts or moves without haste or rapidity: a slow procession of cars. Deliberate implies the slowness that marks careful consideration before and while acting: a deliberate and calculating manner. Gradual suggests the slowness of something that advances one step at a time: a gradual improvement in service. That which is leisurely moves with the slowness allowed by ample time or the absence of pressure: an unhurried and leisurely stroll. 5. sluggardly, dilatory, indolent, lazy, slothful. 6. dense. See dull. 14. boring. 19. hinder, impede, obstruct.

Antonyms
1–3. fast. 19. advance.

Usage note
As an adverb, slow has two forms, slow and slowly. Slowly appeared first in the 15th century; slow came into use shortly thereafter. Both are standard today in certain uses.EXPAND
Originally, slow was used both preceding and following the verb it modified. Today, it is used chiefly in imperative constructions with short verbs of motion (drive, run, turn, walk, etc.), and it follows the verb: Drive slow. Don't walk so slow. This use is more common in speech than in writing, although it occurs widely on traffic and road signs. Slow also combines with present participles in forming adjectives: slow-burning; slow-moving. In this use it is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
Slowly is by far the more common form of the adverb in writing. In both speech and writing it is the usual form in preverb position (He slowly drove down the street. The couple slowly strolled into the park) and following verbs that are not imperatives (He drove slowly down the street. The couple strolled slowly through the park). See also quick, sure.

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Example Sentences

My second way of editing myself is to try to slow down a little.

Some argued that it was exaggerated by the unsustainable boom in output and investment, and would slow when the economy faltered.

Instead, elephant nerves can either be relatively slow and sensitive or fast and dulled.

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My second way of editing myself is to try to slow down a little.

Some argued that it was exaggerated by the unsustainable boom in output and investment, and would slow when the economy faltered.

Instead, elephant nerves can either be relatively slow and sensitive or fast and dulled.

Brains slow down as they become more easily distracted.

And where do people get the idea that reptiles are so slow.

Trunk is slow to form, bu more add to my plant list.

There's the slow food movement, and now there's the slow social network movement.

Always a little slow to adapt, higher education began this year to explore the academic uses of smartphones and tablets.

As he goes down his street, he has to slow down for children and speed bumps.

The slow pace at which soil rebuilds makes its conservation essential.

But her book is so detailed it can be slow slogging for readers who are not environmental historians.

Slow growing in pots, fairly f more add to my plant list.

It's slow and clunky, it's not available everywhere and it's sensitive to distance.

Under its slow grope, trees drop their favorite work.

In a slow economy during a time when people are looking to save money, renewable energy can provide a dual solution.

If everybody aims to use cheap electricity, the slow time in the middle of the night becomes the high demand time.

The slow but violent collision of these three plates produces spectacular earthquakes, tsunamis, and eruptions.

Use soaker hoses or a regular hose set for a slow soak.

Put the chicken in a bowl under slow running cold water.

Progress is so slow in higher education, particularly in tight budget times.

The slow shutter exaggerates the explosive look of the fireworks.

They are teasing out ways to slow the biological clock as well as the degradation that time imposes on our bodies and minds.

My smiling, similarly begoggled father was beckoning in dreamlike slow motion.

Nothing is new under the sun, but sometimes the word is slow to circulate.

The authorities were slow to evacuate people downwind, slow to notify rest of world severity of situation.

There he exemplified the national trend toward slow completion.

But don't be afraid to handhold at slow shutter speeds-the serendipitous effects can be wonderful.

Office buildings are cramming more people into existing floors, but the increased population can slow elevator service.

Thighs in particular are perceived as fatty and slow to cook.

Here's how to slow your roll on a bike with no brakes.

The scoop-shaped shell of the snail could help slow storm water.

Genetically tailored approach could slow disease progress.

But hopefully it is reasonble and that when combined with a treeline will help slow or stop the sands.

When the weather cools, cold-blooded animals slow down, which should be good news for their potential prey.

Politics slow polio's eradication--and cause it to spread.

The merits of taking it slow when crafting a useful object, whether building it or growing.

Mostly because it was becoming a resource hog, and was pretty slow.

Unfortunately, magazine publishers have been slow to get onto the internet.

Human brains are slow to develop--a secret, perhaps, of our success.

Set your slow cooker in the morning and come home to inspired stews, succulent pork, and more.

The pair filmed garden-variety insects in flight, their everyday glory unmasked in slow motion.

Learning to eat healthfully and inexpensively through the slow food movement.

But with households still overburdened by debt, years of slow growth lie ahead.

For now wingsuit pilots deploy a parachute at the end of their jumps to slow their descent for.

Scheduling the mind-altering herb as a controlled substance could slow medical research.

But as the norry rolled to a slow stop, sweat bloomed on the skin almost instantly.

They are great for slow and steady water application.

The upgrade has left their devices slow and struggling.

International adoptions are slow because of tightened rules and scandals.

Admissions decision making has traditionally been a slow process, something that has added to the field's mystique.

People are online what they are offline: divided, and slow to build bridges.

They can even slow their pulse so much that they can fire between heartbeats.

Complex, slow and low-flying, choppers have always been vulnerable to attack from the ground.

Uncontrolled or slow movement is a problem with muscle tone, usually in large muscle groups.

The effect has been to slow already meagre growth further and push up inflation.

These two lesser slow lorises, a type of monkey, were.

Baby boomers who keep up the pace as they age are likely to outlive those who slow down.

If you want to help kids work through emotional issues, it's a slow process.

But unlike birds smoked the slow traditional way, this.

The swiveling lens offers flexibility, but the slow and unintuitive.

Parchment keeps the temperature steady and allows for even, slow cooking, so seasonings are absorbed.

But others, in areas slow to be connected, are still finding it difficult.

By themselves, today's fuel prices will slow consumer spending, but will not send it tumbling.

That's how much this pygmy slow loris, an ancient primate species, weighed when it was brought.

Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways.

As a child, he was a slow learner who showed little interest in language studies or in tests of memory.

The plant is slow to reach blooming age, but is then free blooming.

She will slow pose, be your back-up singer, dance with you and blow kisses.

Life is not a long slow decline from sunlit uplands towards the valley of death.

Pol normally runs at lightning speed, but sometimes filmmaking requires him to slow down and smell the manure.

Long-lived but initially slow to grow, peonies sulk if disturbed.

All other plant essential elements are primarily bound in the organic fraction and will thus be subject to slow release over.

Though plenty of research studies have refuted such presumptions, the belief system is slow to change.

At the same time, the migration of workers from agriculture to industry will slow.

To the audience, the slow writhing of the dangling bodieswas a form of entertainment-and a warning to anyone considering piracy.

Proposed effect, to slow the fall of a rapidly vibrating molecule, faces skepticism.

Since braising is a slow wet cooking method, it tends to break things down pretty well.

Expect plants to slow down when the weather heats up.

The coaster will naturally slow down as it rises, so it has to enter the loop fast enough to make it.

To my young mind, it seemed that writing material down would only slow my studying.

Silicon producers, whose biggest customers were always chipmakers, have been slow to cater to the solar industry.

The first is that the solar wind doesn't simply slow down when it crosses into the heliosheath-it practically stops.

The only sound was the slow drip of runoff from gutters and rooftops.

While it is frustrating being stuck behind a slow vehicle, it actually adds less time to your journey than you might think.

He's more for the long, insolent stare with a couple of slow blinks.

The decline is fast if growth is fast and slow if growth is slow.

He began to paint by making slow measured marks on the paper, which was laid on the ground.

But… an elephant is not as slow as you think, it can charge pretty fast and can turn on a dime.

By the time a driver felt the bumps under his tires, it was usually too late to stop or slow down.

Renza apologized for being so slow to thank the club for the hand-knitted sweater he had been sent a month earlier.

The decline of manufacturing has not meant slow growth, however.

At other times-depending on the nature of the magma-eruptions are relatively slow and quiet.

They listened to the recordings through headphones at a slow speed, which lowered the frequency of the.

Scientists also chaffed at the restriction, saying it will slow and perhaps even cripple promising medical research.

Generally speaking, teaching work does tend to slow down work on a dissertation.

Despite slow growth and low interest rates, it has remained stuck above the.

Corals often survive infrequent bleaching, but recovery is a slow process during which corals are vulnerable to other threats.

Efforts to repair a giant breach in the stratosphere could also help slow global warming*.

The machinery of justice, many complained, is ponderous and slow moving.

The conveyor belt would likely slow because in a warmer world more rain falls in the polar regions.

It is because the relief of one particle may come at another's expense, they say, that the process is so slow.

Turnaround time on the films is a bit slow in big rectangle-shaped states.

Popular resentment of immigration is increasing, and may rise further as economies slow and unemployment climbs.

The cold would slow germ growth in the meat, rendering the use of spices unnecessary.

US slow in adopting helpful hearing induction loops.

His contract could reward him more generously if he wrecks the company and is fired than if he settles for slow or no growth.

The cod hunker down on the seafloor, reduce their feeding, and slow their.

Innovation in arm and hand prostheses has been slow because the market for the devices is small and development costs are high.

By itself, this will do little to slow the economy, but it may ease trade tensions.

The colony has shown an extremely slow growth rate-less than a bird per year on average.

Its slow and fast and slow and fast and slow and fast and maddeningly frustrating to follow in heavy traffic too.

Growing crops to make biofuels may accelerate global warming, not slow down its effects, a new study says.

Any slow starts or early plateaus will pull us off track.

Intensifying the problem is the slow reproduction rate of the reptiles.

Low pressure systems spawn violent storms while high pressure areas tend to be more stable and slow moving.

The ancient pterosaur was a slow flier that coasted on light air currents and could soar for hours.

Saving the trees could slow climate change, new research shows.

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World English Dictionary

slow (sləʊ)

—*adj*
1.	performed or occurring during a comparatively long interval of time
2.	lasting a comparatively long time: a slow journey
3.	characterized by lack of speed: a slow walker
4.	(prenominal) adapted to or productive of slow movement: the slow lane of a motorway
5.	(of a clock, etc) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
6.	given to or characterized by a leisurely or lazy existence: a slow town
7.	not readily responsive to stimulation; intellectually unreceptive: a slow mind
8.	dull or uninteresting: the play was very slow
9.	not easily aroused: a slow temperament
10.	lacking promptness or immediacy: a slow answer
11.	unwilling to perform an action or enter into a state: slow to anger
12.	behind the times
13.	(of trade, etc) unproductive; slack
14.	(of a fire) burning weakly
15.	(of an oven) cool
16.	photog requiring a relatively long time of exposure to produce a given density: a slow lens
17.	sport (of a track, etc) tending to reduce the speed of the ball or the competitors
18.	cricket (of a bowler, etc) delivering the ball slowly, usually with spin

—*adv*
19.	in a manner characterized by lack of speed; slowly

—vb (often foll by up or down)
20.	to decrease or cause to decrease in speed, efficiency, etc

[Old English slāw sluggish; related to Old High German slēo dull, Old Norse slǣr, Dutch sleeuw slow]

'slowly

—*adv*

'slowness

—n

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Word Origin & History

slow

O.E. slaw "inactive, sluggish," also "not clever," from P.Gmc. *slæwaz (cf. O.S. sleu "blunt, dull," M.Du. slee, Du. sleeuw "sour, tart, blunt," O.H.G. sleo "blunt, dull," O.N. sljor, Dan. sløv, Swed. slö "blunt, dull"). Meaning "taking a long time" is attested from c.1230. Meaning

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"dull, tedious" is from 1841. The verb is O.E. slawian; modern use may be a 16c. reformation. Slowpoke is first recorded 1848. Slow burn "delayed anger reaction" is attested from 1975.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

slow

In addition to the idioms beginning with slow, also see mills of the gods grind slowly; on the uptake, slow.

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