SLOWING

deceleration, slowing, retardation

(noun) a decrease in rate of change; “the deceleration of the arms race”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

slowing

present participle of slow

Noun

slowing (plural slowings)

A deceleration; a slowing down.

Anagrams

• lowings, owlings, sowling

Source: Wiktionary

SLOW

Slow, obs.

Definition: imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Slow, a. [Compar. Slower; superl. Slowest.] Etym: [OE. slow, slaw, AS. slaw; akin to OS. sl blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl blunt, dull, Icel. sl, sl, Dan. slöv, Sw. slö. Cf. Sloe, and Sloth.]

1. Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.

2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late. These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. Milton.

3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. Dryden.

4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. Prov. xiv. 29.

5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.

6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.

7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.] Dickens. Thackeray.

Note: Slow is often used in the formation of compounds for the most part self-explaining; as, slow-gaited, slow-paced, slow-sighted, slow-winged, and the like. Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.] -- Slow lemur, or Slow loris (Zoöl.), an East Indian nocturnal lemurine animal (Nycticebus tardigradus) about the size of a small cat; -- so called from its slow and deliberate movements. It has very large round eyes and is without a tail. Called also bashful Billy.

– Slow match. See under Match.

Syn.

– Dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull; inactive.

– Slow, Tardy, Dilatory. Slow is the wider term, denoting either a want of rapid motion or inertness of intellect. Dilatory signifies a proneness to defer, a habit of delaying the performance of what we know must be done. Tardy denotes the habit of being behind hand; as, tardy in making up one's acounts.

Slow, adv.

Definition: Slowly. Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow. Shak.

Slow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slowing.]

Definition: To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. Shak.

Slow, v. i.

Definition: To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.

Slow, n.

Definition: A moth. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition