Slow vs Slot - What's the difference?
slow | slot |
Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
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, title= Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
* (John Milton)
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, title= Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
* The Bible, Prov. xiv. 29
(of a clock or the like) Behind]] in time; indicating a time [[early, earlier than the true time.
Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
(of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
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Slowly.
* Shakespeare
A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
(obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
A gap in a schedule or sequence.
(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
(slang) The vagina.
* 2006 , Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)
* 2006 , Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters (page 20)
To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
To put something where it belongs.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
The track of an animal, especially a deer.
:* 1819': “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the '''slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
As verbs the difference between slow and slot
is that slow is to make (something) run, move, etc less quickly; to reduce the speed of while slot is (sluta).As an adjective slow
is taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.As a noun slow
is someone who is slow; a sluggard.As an adverb slow
is slowly.slow
English
Adjective
(er)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
- These changes in the heavens, though slow , produced / Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
- He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
Synonyms
* See also * (taking a long time to move a short distance) deliberate; moderate * (not happening in a short time) gradual * (of reduced intellectual capacity) dull-witted * (acting with deliberation) dilatory, inactive, tardy, slothful, sluggish * (lacking spirit) boring, dullAntonyms
* (taking a long time to move a short distance) fast, quick, rapid, swift * (of reduced intellectual capacity) prompt, quick * (acting with deliberation) hasty, precipitate, prompt * (lacking spirit) brisk, livelyDerived terms
* slow motion, slo-mo * slow-belly * slow burn * slowish * slowly * slow march * slowness * slowpokeVerb
(en verb)- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
Synonyms
* (keep from going quickly) delay, hinder, retard * (become slow) decelerate, slackenDerived terms
* slower * slow up * slow downAdverb
(er)- That clock is running slow .
- Let him have time to mark how slow time goes / In time of sorrow.
slot
English
(wikipedia slot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) slot or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
- to slot a door
Etymology 2
From Old French esclot , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- The game offers four save slots .
- She'd like him jammed into her slot , like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
- Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.
Derived terms
* slotwiseVerb
citation, page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}