slow vs fast vs quick
Definitions
adjective
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- (of business) not active or brisk
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- at a slow tempo
verb
- lose velocity; move more slowly
- cause to proceed more slowly
- become slow or slower
adverb
- of timepieces
- without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
Examples
A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
Fructose is absorbed more slowly than glucose and galactose.
He slowly depressed the plunger and once the syringe was empty, withdrew the needle and stepped back.
Definitions
verb
- abstain from eating
- abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
adjective
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
- at a rapid tempo
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
adverb
- quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
- firmly or closely
noun
- abstaining from food
Examples
It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken.
Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
