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Definition of Slow-moving
1. Adjective. Moving slowly. "Slow-moving cars"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slow-moving
Literary usage of Slow-moving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1804)
"Continuation of an Account of a peculiar Arrangement in the Arteries distributed
on the Muscles of slow-moving Animals, &c. In a Letter from . ..."
2. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1890)
"Custom is generally a disguised form of slow- moving competition. Divided ownership
strengthens the force of custom and resists changes. but the village ..."
3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"Continuation of an Account of a peculiar Arrangement in the Arteries distributed
on the Muscles of slow-moving Animals, fyc. In a Letter from Mr. Anthony ..."
4. Vermont Beautiful by Wallace Nutting (1922)
"... of the slow- moving loads of hay, sweeter than any manufactured perfume; of
the little private pastures where the calves are kept by themselves; ..."
5. Report of the 1st-22d Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International (1913)
"slow-moving PEACE FORCES THE MORE POWERFUL REMARKS OF SIR GEORGE REID This is a
glorious place of natural beauty, and even more glorious in the good ..."
6. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46 by Edward Belcher, Arthur Adams (1848)
"... and the languid, slow-moving Holothuria, together with numerous fish and
Crustaceans, contributed to prove that nature is ever weaving the subtle woof ..."
7. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"97), as well as among the heavy, slow-moving mammals. ... This is precisely the
reverse of the conditions obtaining among the slow-moving ..."
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