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SLOWER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
More slowly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)
Context examples:
The researchers found that higher serum 25(OH)D levels in the first 12 months predicted reduced MS activity and a slower rate of MS progression.
(Vitamin D Levels Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)
His nerve processed and mental processes were slower than hers.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The level of benzene also decreased in the modified plant vials, but at a slower rate, it took eight days for the levels to decrease by 75%.
(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Generally speaking, the speed of a dune is inverse to its size: smaller dunes move faster and larger dunes move slower.
(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)
In the presence of the antibiotic, the fast-swimming species became much slower and formed aggregates, while the normally aggregated species shifted in structure to form even larger colonies, with less fragmentation.
(Impacts of low-dose exposure to antibiotics unveiled in zebrafish gut, National Science Foundation)
The Canadian Government would be no loser, nor would its despatches travel the slower.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
This species is acid fast, nonmotile, is unable to grow well in glycerol agar, produces pigment and has a slower growth rate than Mycobacterium fortuitum.
(Mycobacterium flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)
He crawled straight toward Grey Beaver, every inch of his progress becoming slower and more painful.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When I saw them glancing at me out of the windows, as they went up to their classes, I felt distinguished, and looked more melancholy, and walked slower.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is slower and more terrible.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
