Slow
imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
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.
Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
Slowly.
To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
A moth.
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Slow Quotations
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Slow Translations
slow in Danish is langsom
slow in Dutch is langzaam
slow in Italian is fiacco, guardingo, lungo
slow in Latin is tardus, piger pigra pigrum, bardus
slow in Norwegian is langsom
slow in Portuguese is lento
slow in Spanish is lento, desaplicado, sentado
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