Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. idiomatic decelerate
WordNet 3.0
- v. reduce the speed of
- v. cause to proceed more slowly
- v. become slow or slower
- v. lose velocity; move more slowly
- v. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
Examples
“Other controls of attention slow down our thinking so we canplan and complete tasks competently and efficiently.”
“As if pretending to be married would make this less confusing .... are we supposed to believe that Miss Robinson is the father of her child also? slow down now! first off, are we supposed to believe your name is actually Miguel?”
“Almost a week into December and the weather warmed a little; Shortland ordered the two big slavers to slow down and let Friendship catch up.”
“Toxins slow down the time it takes for you to feel full this is called the satiety response time.”
“Pickets were stationed outside the ramparts to warn of attack and to slow down the enemy.”
“Polydamus first gave him a letter from the king reporting on his ambitious war plans in the east, to which Parmenion commented that Alexander ought to slow down after already achieving so many conquests.”
“In reality, of course, June is the month when things slow down and people start taking vacations, but the dean and the communist history department are used to the twisted truth.”
“The Panther that Rickelton had taxied was one of those pushed over the side in an effort to slow down the fire.”
“QWERTY was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, who designed this keyboard to slow down typists.”
“Homophily can therefore act to slow down the rate of diffusion in a system.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slow down’.
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)polythene, Sun King, rhythm and blues, taxman, tripper, monkey business, mailman, matchbox, rock and roll, ooh, blue jay, reprise and 388 more...
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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Unidentified sounds...
...detected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 113
pigpen, take care of, straighten up, done with, doing great, in no time, kid stuff, speed zone, warning, slow down, cram, do well and 8 more...
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TT2 Lesson 22
scene, Bahamas, calm, still, stand stiill, star, shine, amazingly, taste, a taste of, port of call, unforgettable and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for slow down.
skipvia Or, on another note, "OOWWWWW!!!! If you want our love to last." Jun 6, 2009
dontcry You've got to make the morning last. Jun 6, 2009
mollusque You move too fast Jun 6, 2009