slow – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
slow
adv.
slowly, at a low rate of speed
adj.
not fast, unhurried; dull-witted, not understanding quickly; gradual, prolonged; not responding quickly; not keeping the proper time (of a clock or wristwatch); not busy; boring
v.
make slow; retard, delay; decelerate, reduce speed
Speed
In everyday use and in
kinematics, the
speed of an object is the
magnitude of its
velocity (the
rate of change of its
position); it is thus a
scalar quantity. The
average speed of an object in an interval of time is the
distance travelled by the object divided by the
duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the
limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero.
Speed (disambiguation)
Speed is the rate of motion, change, or activity.
slow
Verb
1. lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
(synonym) decelerate, slow down, slow up, retard
(hypernym) decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
(hyponym) slow down, slow up
(derivation) deceleration, slowing, retardation
2. become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
(synonym) slow down, slow up, slack, slacken
(hypernym) weaken
(derivation) deceleration, slowing, retardation
3. cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
(synonym) slow down, slow up
(hypernym) decelerate, slow down, slow up, retard
(hyponym) bog down, bog
Adjective
1. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"
(antonym) fast
(similar) bumper-to-bumper
(see-also) delayed
(attribute) speed, swiftness, fastness
2. at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"
(antonym) fast
(similar) adagio
(classification) music
3. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
(synonym) dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse
(similar) stupid
4. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"
(antonym) fast
5. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
(synonym) boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
(similar) uninteresting
6. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
(synonym) dull, sluggish
(similar) inactive
(classification) commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
Adverb
1. without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights"
(synonym) slowly, easy, tardily
(classification) colloquialism
2. of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"
(synonym) behind
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