slowing
present participle ofslow
| 单词 | slowing |
| 释义 | slowing present participle ofslow slow verb[IorT] uk/sləʊ/us/sloʊ/C2 toreducespeedoractivity, or to make something do this: Businessdevelopmenthas slowed inresponseto therecession. Traffic slowsto acrawl(= goes soslowlyitalmoststops)duringrushhour. Thepilotwasaskedto slow hisapproachto therunway. to get slower
Increasing and decreasing speed of motion
Phrasal verbsslow(someone/something)down/up slow down Examplesofslowingslowing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. For the early-diagnosis group, growth trajectories suggested that autism may involve developmental arrest,slowing, or even regression. From theCambridge English Corpus He decided upon this particular spread of letters as a means ofslowingtypists down, not speeding up their work. From theCambridge English Corpus Although they exhibited someslowingin deliberation time, this was not significant, and contrasts with theslowingobserved in depression. From theCambridge English Corpus These results, along with other studies, lead these researchers to conclude thatslowingdown the rate of speech is not necessarily helpful for comprehension purposes. From theCambridge English Corpus This is due toslowingdown of electrons in the presence of magnetic field. From theCambridge English Corpus Theslowingof perceived speed, however, is present with successive presentation and is greatest for slowly moving targets. From theCambridge English Corpus Now it is four, inserting the subcommittees and notablyslowingthe process, while individual entrepreneurship makes a mockery of old-style negotiating with the president. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, the neutronslowingdown and absorption in the transmission lines leads to blast waves inside the micro-explosion chamber. From theCambridge English Corpus Active learning in the absence of coordination gives central banks an incentive to follow cautious strategies, therebyslowinglearning and avoiding conflict. From theCambridge English Corpus The author speculates thatslowingdown input, thus making more of it available for processing, could push learners from lexically to more syntactically driven processing. From theCambridge English Corpus Conductionslowingand sudden arrhythmic death in mice with cardiac-restricted inactivation of connexin43. From theCambridge English Corpus Cognitiveslowingand working memory difficulties in chronic fatigue syndrome. From theCambridge English Corpus Thisslowingof integration and response times is important in the causation of falls. From theCambridge English Corpus Preventing orslowingdown the development of herbicide resistance is considered beneficial. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, they corroborate evidence that psychomotorslowingmay be a trait marker of bipolar illness. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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