slow down

Meanings

• Verb

  Decrease one's speed or pace.

  - "Please slow down when approaching a red light."
  - "The traffic was moving so fast that we had to ask the driver to slow down."

• Verb

  Make something proceed more slowly.

  - "The manager asked us to slow down production to meet quality standards."
  - "Can you slow down the video so I can read the text?"

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with slow down
downe , clown , mown , lawn , gown

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Variants

List of all variants of slow down that leads to same result
slowdown , slowdowns

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Forms

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slower, slowest, slows, slowing, slowed, slowingly

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to draw back' or 'to hold back'. Slowed down is the past tense and past participle of the verb slow.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'slow down' was first used in the English language in the late 1400s.

2. The slowest recorded snail is the giant African land snail, which can move at a speed of 0.03 miles per hour.

3. The slowest recorded human is a man named John Wolfe, who could only move at a speed of 0.4 miles per hour due to a rare condition called hyperkinetic hyperglycemia.

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Related Concepts

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1. Deceleration: The act or process of reducing the speed of something.

2. Braking: The action of applying a brake to slow down or stop a vehicle, machine, or other moving object.

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Culture

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The concept of slowing down has been explored in various forms of art and literature, such as the Slow Food movement, which emphasizes the enjoyment of food and its preparation, and the Slow City movement, which advocates for a more relaxed pace of life.

How to Memorize "slow down"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a car driving too fast on a winding road. Now, imagine the same car slowly and carefully navigating the same road.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word slow down with the image of a red traffic light or a stop sign.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each word in 'S-l-o-w D-o-w-n': 'Sips, Laughs, Observes, Whispers, Deliberately, Overcomes, Wisely'.

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