Slew

Definition: Slew

Slew

Noun

1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty".

Verb

1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right".

2. Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Mining

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SLEW

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Synonyms: Slew

Crosswords: Slew

Manx (swerve, twist).

The fact that my client has been ridden more than Seattle Slew is irrelevant. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

Romeo slew Tybalt. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Ever wonder how David slew Goliath? (The Hellstrom Chronicle; writing credit: David Seltzer)

Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

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Books

• Anagraphs: A Slew of Sight Puzzles (reference)

• Das Mèarchen von dem Machandelboom (KHM 47) : d. Mèarchentypus AT 720 : My mother slew me, my father ate me (reference)

• Deputy Provost Marshal : (I slew my dragon) (reference)

• He slew the dreamer: my search with James Earl Ray for the truth about the murder of Martin Luther King (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• What's the Matter with Helen? / Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Yes, Americans do love their spuds! We each eat about 125 pounds of them a year, about half from fresh potatoes and half in processed foods. Research has brought forth a slew of new, improved potato varieties for both uses. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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he slew.

Say that I slew them not?

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Economic History

Senegal

He also has launched a slew of audits of state-owned companies and agencies. (references)

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Expressions using "slew": slew rate ♦ slew round ♦ whole slew. Additional references.

Beginning with "slew": slew-induced.

Albanian

rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, mill, revolve, turn, turn about, turn over, wheel), një mori (hordes, lashings, million), moçal (backwater, bayou, bog, Fen, Mars, Marsh, mire, morass, muskeg, quagmire, Slough, swamp), kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, twist, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind), kthej (bandy, bend, bow, bring back, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, throw back, transform, transit, turn, turn aside, turn down), kthehem (backtrack, bend, come back, flounce, get back, go back, lurch, move back, redound, rejoin, return, set, start back, take turns, turn aside, turn back, turn over, turn round, veer, wheel), bëhem i dehur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستنقع (bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, moss, ooze, patch, pond, quag, quagmire, slough, sump, swamp), ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏أخدود موصل, ‏أدار (administer, boss, carry on, cast, direct, dispense, govern, manage, mobilize, operate, order, preside, procure, rotate, run, slue, spin, spun, steward, superintend, tumble, twiddle, twirl, wind, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тресавище (bog, mire, moor, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, sink, swamp), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), плитчина (bar, cay, flat, hurst, mud-bank, rift, shallow, shelf, shoal). (various references)

Chinese 

沼泽 (bog, Boggy, marsh, morass, slews, swamp). (various references)

Czech

min.èas od slay. (various references)

Danish

slew rate (slew rate), rotationshastighed (slew rate), dreje rundt (slew round, slue round), afbøjning (deflection, diffraction, slew rate, slewing rate), aendringshastighed (slew rate). (various references)

Dutch

stijgsnelheid (slew rate, slewing rate), slew rate (slew rate), grondzwaai (slew round, slue round). (various references)

Farsi 

مقدارزیاد(.adj&.n), محل باتلاقی , دریاچه (Laguna, Lake, Pond). (various references)

Finnish

seurantanopeus (slew rate, slewing rate), muuttumisnopeus (slew rate, slewing rate), muutosnopeus (slew rate), antojännitteen muuttumisnopeus (slew rate). (various references)

French

saut sans impression, virer (slue), tué, pivoter (slue), meurtri, abattu. (various references)

German

schwenken (brandish, flourish, pan, panning, pivot, spin, sway, swing, switch, swivel, toss, traverse, wave, wheel), herumschwenken (swing round), haufen (accumulation, aggregate, batches, bunch, bundle, cloud, cluster, crowd, flock, gang, heap, huddle, load, lot, mass, mob, mound, multitude, pile, stack, throng), drehen (be about, centre on, change, concern, contort, film, fix, grind, pull, pull off, revolve, roll, rotate, shift, span, spin, spun, swivel, take, throw, to revolve, to turn, to twiddle, to twirl, to twist, turn, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twirl, twist, wangle, wheel, wind, work). (various references)

Greek 

γλιστρώ τριγύρω (slue), μέγασ αριθμόσ, μέγα ποσό (slue, store), περιστρέφω (revolve, rotate, slue, wheel), περιστρέφομαι (gyrate, revolve, rotate, slue, spin), φονεύω (despatch, destroy, dispatch, kill, murder, slaughter, slay), αόρ. του slay. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפרץ ביצ� י. (various references)

Hungarian

csavarodás (curl, earrl, slue, thwarting, torsion, twirl, twist, wrenching), tekeredés (convolution, slue, twirl, twist), ringatás (slue), ringás (roll, slue), himbálódzás (roll, slue, swing), himbálás (slue), fordulás (facing, slue, swing, turn round, turning, volt), elfordulás (roll, slue, swing). (various references)

Italian

stagno (mere, pond, pool, slue, tin, watertight), rotare (rotate, slue), rigirarsi (slew round, slue, slue round), palude (bog, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quagmire, slash, Slough, slue, swamp), moltitudine (crowd, herd, host, mass, multitude, shoal, slue, swarm, throng), giro (circle, circuit, coil, drive, girth, gyre, I endorse, lap, ramble, revolution, ride, rotation, round, run, screw, slue, spin, stroll, tour, trip, turn, turning, walk), girarsi (roll over, slue, swing, wheel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スリラー� �"� (slew rate, Sri Lanka, thrill, thriller, thrilling, through, throughput). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スルーレート (slew rate). (various references)

Korean 

회� � (rotational, Slewed, slews, turn, Whirl). (various references)

Manx

cur mygeayrt (announce, circulate, pass, spread). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewslay

Portuguese

virar (bend, capsize, overset, slue round, spill, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip over, topple, turn, turn around, turn round, upset), viragem (turn), enorme quantidade. (various references)

Romanian

trecut de la slay. (various references)

Russian 

вращаться (circle, gyrate, move, revolve, run, turn, turn around), вращать (revolve, rotate, rotated, turn), поворот (crook, rotation, swerve, tumbling, turn, turn round, turning, turn-round, twist, veer, veering, wheeling, winding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme od slay, mnoštvo (array, crop, grist, heap, lashings, legion, lot, lot: the lot, lots of, mass, million: the million, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, oodles, pack, plenty, raft, scads, shoal). (various references)

Spanish

torcerse a (slue, strain, twist, warp), torcer (back, change, distort, inflect, sprain, spring, throw, torture, turn, turn about, turn around, twirl, twist, wind, wring out), pret de slay, montón (bagful, bank, batch, caboodle, clamp, congeries, cumulus, deluge, drift, dump, heap, huddle, load, mass, mound, mountain, pack, packet, parcel, Peck, pile, raft, ream, scads, stack), girar (back, derange, draw, endorse, go round, gyrate, hinge, Rev, revolve, rotate, slue, spin, swish, swivel round, to turn, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twist, twist round, veer, wheel, wind, wind up). (various references)

Swedish

sväng (bend, curve, sweep, turn, veer). (various references)

Turkish

yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), fazla miktar (plus quantity), devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circuit, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slue, transfer, turn over), devir yaptırmak (cycle), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), döndürmek (deflect, return, reverse, revolve, roll, rotate, round off, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, twiddle, twirl, veer, veer round, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, wind up), bataklık arazi, çok miktar (load, muckle, slathers, slue), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Ukrainian

спантеличувати (amuse, blank, delude, fog, mystify, puzzle), обертатися (circle, circuit, encircle, encompass, pivot, revolve, rotate, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, wheel, whirl), обертати (revolve, rotate, swivel, turn, wheel), болото (back water, bog, mire, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, slue, sump, swamp, wash), п'янити (befuddle, besot, disguise, sozzle), поворот (bend, slue, turn, turn off, turnabout, turning, veer, veering, wheeling, wind). (various references)

sluagh. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "slew": slewed, slewing, slews. (additional references)

Words containing "slew": aisleway, aisleways. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Islywn, lsw, saew, salw, Salwey, sbew, scew, sdew, selq, sfew, sgew, siew, slea, sleb, slef, sleg, sleh, slei, slej, slek, slel, slen, sleq, sler, slewd, slewe, slewn, slewt, slewv, slewy, slex, slez, slw, smew, soew, splew, sqew, ssew, stlaw, suew, svew, swel, swew, sxew, szew. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: els, sel, sew.

-2 letters: el, es, we.

+1 letter: clews, flews, lewis, lowes, lowse, lweis, mewls, plews, slews, swale, swell, wales, weals, welds, wells, welsh, welts, wiles, wyles.

+2 letters: awless, belows, bowels, dowels, dwells, elbows, jewels, lowers, lowest, newels, owlets, rowels, slewed, slowed, slower, swales, swells, swiple, swivel, towels, vowels, walers, walies, warsle, wealds, weasel, wedels, whales, wheals, wheels, whelks, whelms, whelps, whiles, wholes, wields, wisely, wolves.

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