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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
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