word-vault/dist/data/cards/sl/slow.json

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{
    "term": "slow",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not moving, acting or done quickly; taking a long time; not fast",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **slow pace/speed**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Average earnings are rising at their **slowest rate** for 20 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a slow driver"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Progress** was **slower** than expected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country is experiencing **slow** but steady economic **growth**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Collecting data is a painfully slow process."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Oh you're so slow; come on, hurry up!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a slow, lingering death"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The slow movement opens with a cello solo."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For the third game in a row City made a **slow start**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave a slow smile."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Genetic evolution is necessarily slow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was considerably slower than the other drivers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My computer is noticeably slower than before."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is showing a slow and steady improvement in her reading ability."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["at"],
                "phrases": ["slow and steady"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not going or allowing you to go at a fast speed",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I missed the fast train and had to get the slow one *(= the one that stops at all the stations)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "hesitating to do something or not doing something immediately",
            "sensetop": "slow to do somethingslow in doing somethingslow doing something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She wasn't slow to realize what was going on.",
                    "contextForm": "slow to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The world's governments have been slow to respond to global environmental challenges."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some insurance companies are particularly slow in processing claims.",
                    "contextForm": "slow in doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His poetry was slow in achieving recognition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has been too slow in upgrading its computer systems."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were very slow paying me.",
                    "contextForm": "slow doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was noticeably slow to respond."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are extremely slow at reaching decisions."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "not quick to learn; finding things hard to understand",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's the slowest in the class."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "not very busy; containing little action",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sales are slow *(= not many goods are being sold)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are slow passages in which little happens, but they help to build up the suspense."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "sluggish"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "showing a time earlier than the correct time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My watch is five minutes slow *(= it shows 1.45 when it is 1.50)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "slow film is not very sensitive to light",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be quick/slow to understand something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Is he always this slow on the uptake?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to slowly get angry",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "fast/slow in reacting to a situation",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If you’re quick off the mark in answering these questions, you could win a prize."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government was slow off the mark in responding to the crisis."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sləʊ/",
                "audio": "sl/slow/slow__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sləʊ/",
                "audio": "sl/slow/slow__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English slāw ‘slow-witted, sluggish’, of Germanic origin."
}