Definition of Slowings

1. Noun. (plural of slowing) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slowings

1. slowing [n] - See also: slowing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowings

slowback
slowbacks
slowball
slowcoach
slowcoaches
slowcore
slowdown
slowdowns
slowed
slower
slowers
slowest
slowgoing
slowing
slowings (current term)
slowish
slowlier
slowliest
slowliness
slowly
slowly but surely
slowmatch
slowmatches
slowness
slownesses
slowpitch
slowplay
slowplayed
slowplaying

Literary usage of Slowings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"... and slowings of the flow of ideas, the flutterings—it is closer to the breath, as modern music and modern dance are, or as primitive music and primitive ..."

2. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"... and slowings of the flow of ideas, the flutterings—it is closer to the breath, as modern music and modern dance are, or as primitive music and primitive ..."

3. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"... and slowings of the flow of ideas, the flutterings—it is closer to the breath, as modern music and modern dance are, or as primitive music and primitive ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... as is usually represented, is discontinuous and interrupted occasionally by notable slowings and oven intermittence of the pulsations. ..."

5. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"... all rapid transit is the maintenance of speed, it being the slowings down and the stops that SIZES OF speeds on land despite the wonder- chiefly account ..."

6. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"... it being the slowings down and the stops that SIZES OF speeds on land despite the wonder- chiefly account for the slow average nil spurts that have been ..."

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