| slow |
| 1. adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. | |
| a slow train; a slow computer | |
| 2. adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. | |
| 3. adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. | |
| 4. adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation. | |
| 5. adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time. | |
| That clock is slow. | |
| 6. adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness. | |
| 7. adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity. | |
| It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier. | |
| I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon. | |
| 8. v. To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | |
| 9. v. To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. | |
| 11. n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard. | |
| 12. n. (music) A slow song. | |
| 13. adv. Slowly. | |
| That clock is running slow. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| tardy |
| 1. adj. Late; overdue or delayed. | |
| He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth. | |
| 2. adj. Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift. | |
| 3. adj. Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull. | |
| His tardy performance bordered on incompetence. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy). | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Criminal; guilty. | |
| 6. n. (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. | |
| The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell. | |
| 7. n. (US) An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy. | |
