单词 | slowly-moving |
释义 | > as lemmasslowly-moving a. With present participles forming adjectives, as slowly-acting, slowly-growing, slowly-moving, etc.Compounds formed in this way are more common with slow than slowly: see slow adv. Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iv. 91 Amongst all his illegall Acts, this gave most distaste, not onely to the Nobility and Gentry, who were indued with clearer understandings, but even to the slowly apprehending Commons. 1747 W. Mason Musæus 16 All these slowly-dripping rills, That tinkling stray amid the cooly cave. a1771 T. Gray Fragm. Hymn to Ignorance 176 in Poems (1775) ii Rushy Camus' slowly-winding flood. 1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 181 The meandering brook, or the slowly-flowing river. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. viii. 59 We can prove the effects to be due to slowly-acting causes. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 195 They [sc. frogs in Arctic zones] would be so slowly-working that their growth would be prolonged over an uneconomic number of seasons. 1937 Discovery July 196/1 Long strings of slowly-moving camels. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxvi. 992 The Brenner tumour..is a slowly-growing and probably benign growth of rather rare occurrence. 1998 Times 25 June 41/8 The voices had plenty of individuality, yet they sang with unanimity in the rhythms so suggestive of slowly-swaying censers. < as lemmas |
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