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Foreflow vs Foreslow - What's the difference?

foreflow | foreslow |

As verbs the difference between foreflow and foreslow

is that foreflow is to flow before while foreslow is (obsolete|intransitive) to be slow or tardy; to slow down.

As a noun foreflow

is the act or process of foreflowing.

foreflow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To flow before.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of foreflowing.
  • That which foreflows.
  • (engineering) A channel or conduit which permits gases or liquids to foreflow.
  • foreslow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
  • Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow , and to move with more than one motion.
  • (obsolete) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
  • * Fairfax
  • No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.