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Definition: SLOWS |
SLOWSNoun1. Milk sickness. |
Date "SLOWS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
Crosswords: SLOWS |
| English words defined with "SLOWS": acetylsalicylic acid, alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion, alluvium, arrester, arrester hook, aspirin ♦ Bayer ♦ Empirin ♦ parasympathetic, parasympathetic nervous system, preventative, preventive, prophylactic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SLOWS": Air Curtain ♦ Cerenkov radiation ♦ Energy Dissipator, Etidronic Acid ♦ Filter strip ♦ Magnetic mirroring, Moderator temperature coefficient of reactivity, MOTOR OPERATOR ♦ negative catalyst ♦ overrun brake ♦ retarder of set, Riparian buffer ♦ steering brake. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stay by my side as my light grows dim as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain as my heart grows weak and the wheels of my being turn slowly Stay by my side as my fragile body is racked by pain which verges on truth and manic time continues scattering dust and furious life burtsts out in flames. (Espinazo del Diablo, El; writing credit: Guillermo del Toro; Antonio Trashorras) | |
Lyrics | If the band slows down we'll yell for more ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets) Nothing ever slows her down (Our House; performing artist: Madness) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Photo #1.Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of young bluefin tuna showing annual growth rings. These rings are similar to tree growth rings. The wide (brown) areas represent summer growth during periods of high food intake. The narrow (white) bands represent periods of less fast growth during the winter when the fish's metabolism slows. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Grassed waterway slows runoff water and guides it from a field. Benefits include reduced erosion and improved water quality. Credit: Ralph Fisher. |
 | A living snowfence in northwest Iowa slows soil erosion by wind and keeps the highway clear of snow. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Wetland adjacent to cropland in eastern South Dakota with a shelterbelt in the background. Grass buffer strip between the field and wetland traps sediment and chemicals as well as slows runoff. Credit: Don Poggensee. |
 | Willliams, Arizona. The engineer, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona, with his hand on the "air" as the train slows down. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | But popular? Only in the sense that a serious accident on the motorway might be popular -- everyone slows down to have a good look, but no one will get too close to the flames. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cardiac function slows. (references) | |
It also slows certain fast heart rhythms. (references) | ||
The condition slows growth and causes deformities. (references) | ||
Economic History | Finland | In 2001, revenue from direct taxes is expected to be smaller than in 2000 as growth in capital assets revenue ceases, revenue in businesses slows down, and income taxation eases. (references) |
Slovenia | Slovenia is set to experience a slow-down in its economic growth rate this year--from 2000's 4.8% to about 4.25% in 2001. The effect of the foreign sector will be critical to the realization of this forecast, as export demand in Slovenia's prime--mainly EU--markets slows. (references) | |
Malaysia | On the international standard 3-month basis, NPLs increased from 9.6 percent at end-2000 to 10.6 percent in March 2001. The Central Bank has indicated the NPL figure could go higher, but remain well within manageable proportions, as economic growth slows and loans not yet restructured are classified as non-performing. (references) | |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | Bureaucratic red tape, compounded by corruption, slows and distorts decision-making and procurement. (references) |
Travel | Australia | Consequently, business slows down and it is usually difficult to make appointments during this time. (references) |
Pakistan | During this month, travel is more difficult, the pace of business activity slows (many offices close by mid-day), and it is therefore more difficult to accomplish business objectives. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This slows our economic growth, it lowers the value of the dollar overseas, and it aggravates unemployment and inflation here at home. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SLOWS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SLOWS" is used about 211 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 100% | 211 | 20,883 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SLOWS": go-slows. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slows | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLOWS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 减慢 (Slowed, slowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | regulerend gen dat de transcriptie van het virusgenoom afremt (regulator which slows the transcription of viral genome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ralentit, décélére. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French Canadian | retarde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | bremst ab. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | regolatore che rallenta la trascrizione del genoma virale (regulator which slows the transcription of viral genome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 감속한다. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owsslay замедлять (decelerate, retard, slacken, slaken, slow, slow down, slow up). (various references) regulador que frene la transcripción del genoma virico (regulator which slows the transcription of viral genome), atrasa (slows down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SLOWS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sallows, slowd, slowe, slown, sowst. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLOWS" (pronounced slō"z) |
| 3 | -l ō" z | blows, close, disclose, enclose, flows, foreclose, glows, Lowes, lows, plainclothes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-o-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: loss, lows, owls, slow, sols, sows. | |
-2 letters: low, owl, sol, sos, sow, wos. | |
-3 letters: lo, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-o-s-s-w" | |
+1 letter: scowls. | |
+2 letters: bowless, lowness, sallows, sawlogs, slowest, slowish, vowless. | |
+3 letters: browless, cowslips, lewisson, salchows, scowlers, seafowls, shallows, slowness, snowless, sunglows, swallows, thowless, townless, wholisms, woodless, wordless, workless. | |
+4 letters: bestowals, blowsiest, bowelless, coleslaws, crosswalk, crownless, disallows, disbowels, dowsabels, fishbowls, gallowses, glasswork, glasswort, lewissons, lowliness, lownesses, oldsquaws, powerless, sallowest, sallowish, saltworks, saltworts, scofflaws, shadblows, showgirls, silkworms, slopworks, slowdowns, slowpokes, slowworms, snowballs, snowbells, snowbelts, snowfalls, snowlands, snowmelts, snowmolds, snowplows, snowslide, subworlds, washbowls, wastelots, wholeness, womanless, woolsacks, woolsheds, woolskins, worthless, woundless. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 4F 57 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. --- .--. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01001111 01010111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L O W S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 004F 0057 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5346495753 |
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