Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 98
Sloo (n.) Alt. of Slue.
Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
Sloom (n.) Slumber.
Sloomy (a.) Sluggish; slow.
Sloop (n.) (Naut.) 單桅帆船 [C] A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.
Sloop (n.) (Naut.) In modern usage, a sailing vessel having one mast, commonly with a Bermuda rig, with either a center-board or a keel. In the United States, a sloop may have one or two headsails, while in Western Europe and Great Britain a sloop has only one headsail. [RDH]
Sloop of war, 小型風帆戰船 Formerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, or schooner, and mounting from ten to thirty-two guns; now, any war vessel larger than a gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only.
Sloop (n.) A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.
Sloop, () "Parallel Programming in a Virtual Object Space", S. Lucco, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):26-34 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987).
Slop (n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
Slop (n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
Slop (n.) pl. Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
Slop basin, or Slop bowl, A basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table.
Slop molding (Brickmaking), A process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.
Slopped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop.
Slopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slop.
Slop (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
Slop (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
Slop (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
Slop (n.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Slop (n.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. "A pair of slops." -- Sir P. Sidney.
There's a French salutation to your French slop. -- Shak.
Slop (n.) pl. Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Slop (n.) Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk [syn: slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash].
Slop (n.) Deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" [syn: slop, mire].
Slop (n.) (Usually plural) Waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; "she carried out the sink slops."
Slop (n.) (Usually plural) Weak or watery unappetizing food or drink; "he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided."
Slop (n.) Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental [syn: treacle, mush, slop, glop].
Slop (v.) Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" [syn: spill, slop, splatter].
Slop (v.) Walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop].
Slop (v.) Ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate."
Slop (v.) Feed pigs [syn: slop, swill].
Slop (n.) A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again. When discrete quantities are involved, slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of being on the losing side of a fencepost error.
Slop (n.) The percentage of ?extra? code generated by a compiler over the size of equivalent assembler code produced by hand-hacking; i.e., the space (or maybe time) you lose because you didn't do it yourself. This number is often used as a measure of the goodness of a compiler; slop below 5% is very good, and 10% is usually acceptable. With modern compiler technology, esp. on RISC machines, the compiler's slop may actually be negative; that is, humans may be unable to generate code as good. This is one of the reasons assembler programming is no longer common.
Slop, () A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again. When discrete quantities are involved, slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of being on the losing side of a fencepost error.
Slop, () The percentage of "extra" code generated by a compiler over the size of equivalent assembly code produced by hand-hacking; i.e. the space (or maybe time) you lose because you didn't do it yourself. This number is often used as a measure of the quality of a compiler; slop below 5% is very good, and 10% is usually acceptable. Modern compilers, especially on RISCs, may actually have *negative* slop; that is, they may generate better code than humans. This is one of the reasons assembler programming is becoming less common.
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Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slope.
Sloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slope.
Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly. [Slang]
Slope (n.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
Slope (n.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
Buildings the summit and slope of a hill. -- Macaulay.
Under the slopes of Pisgah. -- Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).
Slope (n.) The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
Note: A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity; considered as ascending, an acclivity.
Slope of a plane (Geom.), The direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.
Slope (a.) Sloping. "Down the slope hills." -- Milton.
A bank not steep, but gently slope. -- Bacon.
Slope (n.) An elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" [syn: slope, incline, side].
Slope (n.) The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient" [syn: gradient, slope].
Slope (v.) Be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" [syn: slope, incline, pitch].
Slope -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 767
Housing Units (2000): 451
Land area (2000): 1217.939586 sq. miles (3154.448913 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.282691 sq. miles (3.322154 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1219.222277 sq. miles (3157.771067 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.428212 N, 103.439994 W
Headwords:
Slope
Slope, ND
Slope County
Slope County, ND
Slopeness (n.) State of being slope. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Slopewise (adv.) Obliquely. [Obs.] -- Carew.
Sloping (a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv.
The sloping land recedes into the clouds. -- Cowper.
Sloping (a.) Having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping].
Sloping (a.) Having a slanting form or direction; "an area of gently sloping hills"; "a room with a sloping ceiling."
Sloppiness (n.) 【貶】馬虎；凌亂；【口】【貶】感情脆弱；過於傷感；潮濕；濕漉漉的樣子 The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
Sloppiness (n.) The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water; "the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield"; "the water's muddiness made it undrinkable"; "the sloppiness of a rainy November day" [syn: wateriness, muddiness, sloppiness].
Sloppiness (n.) A lack of order and tidiness; not cared for [syn: sloppiness, slovenliness, unkemptness].
Sloppiness (n.) The quality of not being careful or taking pains [syn: carelessness, sloppiness] [ant: carefulness]
Sloppiness (n.) Falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness].
Sloppy (a.) 稀薄的；【口】懶散的；草率的 Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
Sloppy (a.) Lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits."
Sloppy (a.) Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer."
Sloppy (a.) (Of soil) Soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Sloppy (a.) Not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn: baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy].
Sloppy (a.) Excessively or abnormally emotional [syn: overemotional, sloppy].
Sloppy (a.) Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy].
Slopseller (n.) One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.
Slopshop (n.) A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
Slopshop (n.) A store that sells cheap ready-made clothing [syn: slopshop, slopseller's shop].
Slopwork (n.) The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen. -- Froude.
Slopy (a.) Sloping; inclined. Slosh
Slosh () Alt. of Sloshy.
Sloshy () See Slush, Slushy.
Compare: Slush
Slush (n.) [Written also slosh.] Soft mud.
Slush (n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
Slush (n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
Slush (n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
Slush (n.) (Mach.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
Slosh (v.) Make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor" [syn: splash, splosh, slosh, slush].
Slosh (v.) Walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop].
Slosh (v.) Spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" [syn: slosh, slush, slosh around, slush around].
Compare: Backslash
Backslash, () \ slosh
"\" ASCII code 92. Common names: escape (from C/Unix); reverse slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; ITU-T: reverse slant; reversed virgule; INTERCAL: backslat.
Backslash is used to separate components in MS-DOS pathnames, and to introduce special character sequence in C and Unix strings, e.g. "\n" for newline.
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Slot (v. t.) To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Slot (n.) The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. -- Milton.
As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. -- Sir W. Scott.
Slot (n.) A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
Slot (n.) A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]
Slot (n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
Slot (n.) A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar."
Slot (n.) A small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); "he put a quarter in the slot."
Slot (n.) A time assigned on a schedule or agenda; "the TV program has a new time slot"; "an aircraft landing slot" [syn: time slot, slot].
Slot (n.) A position in a hierarchy or organization; "Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks"; "she beat some tough competition for the number one slot."
Slot (n.) The trail of an animal (especially a deer); "he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees."
Slot (n.) (Computer) A socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for additional memory" [syn: slot, expansion slot].
Slot (n.) A slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots" [syn: slot, one-armed bandit]
Slot (v.) Assign a time slot; "slot a television program."
Sloth (n.) Slowness; tardiness.
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. -- Shak.
Sloth (n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
[They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. -- Milton.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. -- Franklin.
Sloth (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
Note: The three-toed sloths belong to the genera Bradypus and Arctopithecus, of which several species have been described. They have three toes on each foot. The best-known species are collared sloth ({Bradypus tridactylus), and the ai ({Arctopitheus ai}). The two-toed sloths, consisting the genus Cholopus, have two toes on each fore foot and three on each hind foot. The best-known is the unau ({Cholopus didactylus) of South America. See Unau. Another species ({Cholopus Hoffmanni) inhabits Central America. Various large extinct terrestrial edentates, such as Megatherium and Mylodon, are often called sloths.
Australian sloth, or Native sloth (Zool.), The koala.
Sloth animalcule (Zool.), A tardigrade.
Compare: Tardigrade
Tardigrade (a.) Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. [R.] -- G. Eliot.
Tardigrade (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.
Tardigrade (n.) (Zool.) One of the Tardigrada.
Tardigrade (n.) An arthropod of the division Tardigrada.
Sloth bear (Zool.), A black or brown long-haired bear ({Melursus ursinus, or Melursus labiatus), native of India and Ceylon; -- called also aswail, labiated bear, and jungle bear. It is easily tamed and can be taught many tricks.
Sloth monkey (Zool.), A loris.
Sloth (v. i.) To be idle. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Sloth (n.) A disinclination to work or exert yourself [syn: sloth, slothfulness].
Sloth (n.) Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits [syn: sloth, tree sloth].
Sloth (n.) Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: sloth, laziness, acedia].
Slothful (a.) Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. -- Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth"ful*ness, n.
Slothhound (n.) (Zool.) See Sleuthhound.
Slotted (a.) Having a slot.
Slotting (n.) The act or process of making slots, or mortises.
Slouched (imp. & p. p.) of Slouch.
Slouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slouch.
Slouch (v. i.) To droop, as the head.
Slouch (v. i.) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. [Colloq.]
Slouch (v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
Slouch (n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
Slouch (n.) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. [Colloq.]
Slouth hat, A soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.
Slouch (n.) An incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions; "he's no slouch when it comes to baseball"
Slouch (n.) A stooping carriage in standing and walking.
Slouch (v.) Assume a drooping posture or carriage [syn: slump, slouch].
Slouch (v.) Walk slovenly.
Slouch (n.) An incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions; "he's no slouch when it comes to baseball."
Slouch (n.) A stooping carriage in standing and walking.
Slouch (v.) Assume a drooping posture or carriage [syn: slump, slouch].
Slouch (v.) Walk slovenly.
Slouching (a.) Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
Slouchy (a.) Slouching. [Colloq.]
Slouchy (a.) Lacking stiffness in form or posture; "a slouchy sweater."
Slough (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
Slough (n.) (Med.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
Slough () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
Sloughed (imp. & p. p.) of Slough.
Sloughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slough.
Slough (v. i.) (Med.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
Slough (a.) Slow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. -- Chaucer.
He's here stuck in a slough. -- Milton.
Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]
Slough grass (Bot.), A name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.
Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.
New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds. -- Emerson.
Slough, Obs. imp. of Slee, To slay. Slew. -- Chaucer.
Slough (n.) Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass [syn: gangrene, sphacelus, slough].
Slough (n.) A hollow filled with mud.
Slough (n.) A stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou).
Slough (n.) Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake).
Slough (v.) Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough].
Slough (v.) [ T ] (biology) (of some animals) （某些動物）蛻（皮）To have a layer of skin come off.
// Snakes slough their skin regularly.
Phrasal verb: Slough sth off
Slough sth off (- phrasal verb with Slough) (v.) [ T ] (Literary) 除去，擺脫To get rid of something or someone unwanted.
// He seemed to want to slough off all his old acquaintances.
Slough sth off (- phrasal verb with Slough) (v.) [ T ] (Biology) （蛇及其他爬行動物）蛻（皮），脫（皮） When snakes and other reptiles slough off their skin, they get rid of an old, dead layer of skin.
Slough (n.) (Sadness) [ S ] (Literary) 悲傷絕望 A mental state of deep sadness and no hope.
// She seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.
Slough (n.) (Wet area) [ C ] 泥沼，泥淖；沼澤 An area of soft, wet land.
Sloughing (n.) (Zool.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
Sloughing (n.) The process whereby something is shed [syn: shedding, sloughing].
Sloughy (a.) Full of sloughs, miry.
Sloughy (a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
Sloughy (a.) (Of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Sloven (n.) A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. -- Pope.
He became a confirmed sloven. -- Macaulay.
Sloven (n.) A coarse obnoxious person [syn: slob, sloven, pig, slovenly person].
Slovenliness (n.) The quality or state of being slovenly.
Slovenliness (n.) A lack of order and tidiness; not cared for [syn: sloppiness, slovenliness, unkemptness].
Slovenliness (n.) Habitual uncleanliness.
Slovenly (a.) Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress.
A slovenly, lazy fellow, lolling at his ease. -- L'Estrange.
Slovenly (a.) Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
Slovenly (adv.) A slovenly manner.
Slovenly (a.) Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance" [syn: frowsy, frowzy, slovenly].
Slovenness (n.) Slovenliness. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Slovenry (n.) Slovenliness. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Slow (v. t.) [Obs.] imp. of {Slee}, 殺害，殘殺 To slay. Slew. -- Chaucer.
Slow (a.) 慢的，緩慢的，遲緩的，遲鈍的，冷漠的，落後的 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.
Slow (a.) 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.
Slow (a.) 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.
Slow (a.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. -- Prov. xiv. 29.
Slow (a.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
Slow (a.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
Slow (a.) 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 (Zool.), 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.
Usage: 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.) 慢地 Slowly.
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow. -- Shak.
Slowed (imp. & p. p.) of Slow.
Slowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slow.
Slow (v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. -- Shak.
Slow (v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
Slow (n.) A moth. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.
Slow (adv.) 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" [syn: {slowly}, {slow}, {easy}, {tardily}] [ant: {apace}, {chop-chop}, {quickly}, {rapidly}, {speedily}].
Slow (adv.) Of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: {behind}, {slow}].
Slow (a.) 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" [ant: {fast}].
Slow (a.) At a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" [ant: {fast}].
Slow (a.) 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" [syn: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb}, {obtuse}, {slow}].
Slow (a.) (used of timepieces) Indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" [ant: {fast}].
Slow (a.) 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" [syn: {boring}, {deadening}, {dull}, {ho-hum}, {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {tiresome}, {wearisome}].
Slow (a.) (of business) Not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: {dull}, {slow}, {sluggish}].
Slow (v.) Lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: {decelerate}, {slow}, {slow down}, {slow up}, {retard}] [ant: {accelerate}, {quicken}, {speed}, {speed up}].
Slow (v.) Become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: {slow}, {slow down}, {slow up}, {slack}, {slacken}].
Slow (v.) Cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down" [syn: {slow}, {slow down}, {slow up}].
Slowback (n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. [Old Slang] -- Dr. Favour.
Slowh () Obs. imp. of Slee,to slay. -- Chaucer.
Slowhound (n.) A sleuthhound. [R.]
Slowly (adv.) In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
Slowly (adv.) 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" [syn: slowly, slow, easy, tardily] [ant: apace, chop-chop, quickly, rapidly, speedily].
Slowly (adv.) In music; "Play this lento, please" [syn: lento, slowly].
Slowness (n.) The quality or state of being slow.
Slowness (n.) Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness].
Slowness (n.) A rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness].
Slowness (n.) Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality].
Slows (n.) (Med.) Milk sickness.
Slow-witted (a.) Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.
Slow-witted (a.) Retarded in intellectual development [syn: backward, half-witted, slow-witted, feebleminded].
Slowworm (v. t.) (Zool.) A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.
Slowworm (n.) Small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind [syn: blindworm, slowworm, Anguis fragilis]