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this car is slower than my old one

  • 1 slow

    sləu
    1. adjective
    1) (not fast; not moving quickly; taking a long time: a slow train; The service at that restaurant is very slow; He was very slow to offer help.) lento
    2) ((of a clock etc) showing a time earlier than the actual time; behind in time: My watch is five minutes slow.) atrasado
    3) (not clever; not quick at learning: He's particularly slow at arithmetic.) lento, torpe, estúpido

    2. verb
    (to make, or become slower: The car slowed to take the corner.) retrasar, ralentizar, retardar
    - slowness
    - slow motion
    - slow down/up
    slow adj
    1. lento
    2. atrasado
    tr[sləʊ]
    1 (gen) lento,-a
    2 (clock, watch) atrasado,-a
    ■ my watch is slow mi reloj va atrasado, mi reloj atrasa
    3 (dull, not active) aburrido,-a, pesado,-a
    4 (not quick to learn) lento,-a, torpe; (thick) corto,-a de alcances
    1 despacio, lentamente
    ■ drive slow! ¡conduce despacio!
    1 (vehicle, machine) reducir la marcha de; (production, progress) retrasar, retardar; (person) hacer ir más lento, retrasar
    1 (gen) ir más despacio; (vehicle) reducir la velocidad; (pace) aminorar el paso; (person) tomarse las cosas con calma
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    in a slow oven a fuego lento
    to be slow about/in doing something tardar en hacer algo
    to be slow off the mark ser un poco lento,-a de reflejos
    to be slow to do something tardar en hacer algo
    to go slow (workers) hacer una huelga de celo
    slow [slo:] vt
    : retrasar, reducir la marcha de
    slow vi
    : ir más despacio
    slow adv
    : despacio, lentamente
    slow adj
    1) : lento
    a slow process: un proceso lento
    2) : atrasado
    my watch is slow: mi reloj está atrasado, mi reloj se atrasa
    3) sluggish: lento, poco activo
    4) stupid: lento, torpe, corto de alcances
    adj.
    • despacioso, -a adj.
    • detenido, -a adj.
    • espacioso, -a adj.
    • lento, -a adj.
    • lerdo, -a adj.
    • parsimonioso, -a adj.
    • pausado, -a adj.
    • premioso, -a adj.
    • pánfilo, -a adj.
    • tardo, -a adj.
    • tardío, -a adj.
    • tardón, -ona adj.
    adv.
    • despacio adv.
    • lentamente adv.
    n.
    • posma s.f.
    v.
    • atrasar v.
    • retardar v.

    I sləʊ
    adjective -er, -est
    1) <speed/rate/reactions> lento

    she's a slow learner — tiene problemas de aprendizaje, le cuesta aprender

    it has a slow leak o (BrE) puncture — pierde aire

    to be slow to + INF — tardar en + inf

    he was slow to anger — tenía mucha paciencia; mark I 3) b)

    2)
    a) ( not lively) <novel/plot> lento
    b) ( stupid) (euph) poco despierto (euf), corto (de entendederas) (fam)
    3) (of clock, watch)

    II
    1.

    2.
    vt

    we slowed our pace — aflojamos el paso or aminoramos la marcha

    Phrasal Verbs:

    III
    adverb lentamente, despacio

    to go slow — \<\<driver/walker\>\> avanzar* lentamente, ir* despacio; \<\<workers\>\> (BrE) trabajar a reglamento, hacer* huelga de celo (Esp), hacer* una operación tortuga (Col)

    [slǝʊ] (compar slower) (superl slowest)
    1. ADJ
    1) (=not speedy) [vehicle, music, progress, death, pulse] lento

    • he's a slow eater — come despacio

    • to be slow in doing sth — tardar or (LAm) demorar en hacer algo

    • he's a slow reader — lee despacio

    • after a slow start, he managed to end up in third place — después de un comienzo flojo, consiguió llegar en tercer puesto

    • to be slow to do sth — tardar or (LAm) demorar en hacer algo

    he's slow to learn — aprende lentamente, tarda mucho en aprender

    going 1., 1), mark II, 1., 6), uptake
    2) [clock, watch] atrasado

    • my watch is 20 minutes slow — mi reloj está 20 minutos atrasado

    3) (=mentally sluggish) torpe, lento

    • he's a bit slow at maths — es algo torpe para las matemáticas

    4) (=boring, dull) [match, game, film, plot] lento, pesado; [party, evening] pesado, aburrido

    • business is slow — hay poco movimiento (en el negocio)

    • life here is slow — aquí se vive a un ritmo lento or pausado

    5) (Culin)
    6) (Sport) [pitch, track, surface] lento
    7) (Phot) [film] lento
    2.
    ADV despacio, lentamente, lento

    how slow would you like me to play? — ¿cómo de lento le gustaría que tocara?

    to go slow — [driver] conducir despacio; (in industrial dispute) trabajar a ritmo lento, hacer huelga de celo (Sp)

    3.
    VT (also: slow down, slow up) [+ person] retrasar; [+ progress] retrasar, disminuir el ritmo de; [+ engine, machine] reducir la marcha de; [+ reactions] entorpecer; [+ economy] ralentizar; [+ development] retardar

    • he slowed his car before turning in at the gate — redujo la marcha del coche antes de entrar por el portón

    • they want to slow the pace of reform — quieren reducir el ritmo de la reforma

    as she approached, she slowed her pace — a medida que se acercaba, fue aminorando la marcha or fue aflojando el paso

    • we slowed our speed to 30 miles an hour — redujimos la velocidad a 30 millas por hora

    • that car is slowing (up or down) the traffic — aquel coche está entorpeciendo la circulación

    4.
    VI [vehicle, runner] reducir la marcha; [driver] reducir la velocidad or la marcha; [growth] disminuir; [breathing] hacerse más lento

    • production has slowed to almost nothing — la producción ha bajado casi a cero

    5.
    CPD

    slow burn * N (US) —

    slow cooker N — olla f eléctrica de cocción lenta

    slow cooking N — cocción f a fuego lento

    slow fuse N — espoleta f retardada

    slow handclap N — (Brit) (by audience) palmadas fpl lentas

    slow lane N — (Brit) (Aut) carril m de la izquierda; (most countries) carril m de la derecha

    slow motion N (Cine) —

    in slow motion — a or (LAm) en cámara lenta

    slow-motion

    slow puncture N — pinchazo m lento

    slow train N — (Brit) tren que para en todas las estaciones

    * * *

    I [sləʊ]
    adjective -er, -est
    1) <speed/rate/reactions> lento

    she's a slow learner — tiene problemas de aprendizaje, le cuesta aprender

    it has a slow leak o (BrE) puncture — pierde aire

    to be slow to + INF — tardar en + inf

    he was slow to anger — tenía mucha paciencia; mark I 3) b)

    2)
    a) ( not lively) <novel/plot> lento
    b) ( stupid) (euph) poco despierto (euf), corto (de entendederas) (fam)
    3) (of clock, watch)

    II
    1.

    2.
    vt

    we slowed our pace — aflojamos el paso or aminoramos la marcha

    Phrasal Verbs:

    III
    adverb lentamente, despacio

    to go slow — \<\<driver/walker\>\> avanzar* lentamente, ir* despacio; \<\<workers\>\> (BrE) trabajar a reglamento, hacer* huelga de celo (Esp), hacer* una operación tortuga (Col)

    English-spanish dictionary > slow

  • 2 slow ****

    [sləʊ] - er comp - est superl
    1. adj
    1) (gen) lento (-a)

    to be slow to act/decide — essere lento (-a) ad agire/a decidere

    2)

    (of clock) to be slow — essere or andare indietro

    3) (person: stupid) lento (-a), tardo (-a)

    slow to understand/notice — tardo (-a) a capire/notare

    4) (boring, dull: film, play) lento (-a), (party) poco movimentato (-a)
    5) (slowing down movement: pitch, track, surface) pesante
    2. adv

    to go slow — (driver) andare piano, (in industrial dispute) attuare uno sciopero bianco, (be cautious) andare con i piedi di piombo

    "(go) slow" — "rallentare"

    3. vt
    (also: slow down, slow up) (progress, machine) rallentare, (person) far rallentare, (pace of novel etc) rendere più lento (-a)
    4. vi
    (also: slow down, slow up) rallentare

    English-Italian dictionary > slow ****

  • 3 travel

    1. I
    he is travelling он сейчас путешествует; he spent most of his life travelling большую часть своей жизни он провел в путешествиях /в поездках/; which is the best way to travel? как лучше всего путешествовать?
    2. II
    1) travel in some manner the horse travels slowly лошадь передвигается медленно; news travelled slowly in those days в те дни новости распространялись медленно; bad news travels fast /quickly/ плохие новости быстро распространяются, = худые вести не лежат на месте, плохая молва на крыльях летит; wine (fruit, etc.) does not travel well вине и т.д. портится при перевозке
    2) travel in some manner travel alone (cheaply, extensively, incognito, together, etc.) ездить /путешествовать/ в одиночку и т.д.; travel in state путешествовать в сопровождении свиты, ездить с официальными визитами; your boy is too old to travel free by rail ваш мальчик уже взрослый, он не может бесплатно ездить в поезде; travel somewhere travel abroad (south, west, etc.) ездить /путешествовать/ за границу и т.д.
    3. III
    travel smth. travel a hundred miles (thousands of miles, a long way, etc.) проехать сотни миль и т.д.; travel first (second, third) class ездить /путешествовать/ первым и т.д. классом; we travel this road мы ездим по этой дороге
    4. IV
    travel smth. in some manner travel a country from end to end проехать по стране из конца в конец, объездить страну от края до края; travel the country from top to bottom объездить страну вдоль и поперек
    5. V
    travel some distance in some time travel forty miles an hour (thousands of miles a second,1)
    000 miles a day, etc.) проходить /проезжать/ сорок миль в час и т.д.; light travel thousands of miles a second в /за/ секунду свет распространяется на тысячи миль
    6. XV
    travel in some state light travels faster than sound скорость света превышает скорость звука, свет распространяется быстрее, чем звук; oxen travel slower than horses волы передвигаются медленнее, чем лошади; news travels fast новости быстро распространяются
    7. XVI
    1) travel around (over, across, etc.) smth. travel around the (whole] world (over many lands, all over Italy, over /across, through/ a country, throughout France, about France and Italy, across /on/ the continent, etc.) путешествовать /ездить/ по всему меру /свету/ и т.д.; I have travel-led in many countries я побывал во многих странах; travel to smth. travel to a foreign country (to Europe, to other countries, etc.) поехать в чужую страну и т.д.; travel by smth. travel by railway /by railroad/ (by land, by sea, by water, etc.) путешествовать /ездить/ по железной дороге и т.д.; travel by motor car путешествовать в машине; travel for smth. travel for one's pleasure (for improvement, etc.) путешествовать для своего удовольствия и т.д.; the doctor advised me to travel for my health доктор посоветовал мне отправиться в путешествие, чтобы поправить здоровье; travel for some distance travel for thousands of miles проехать тысячи миль; travel for some time travel for three months путешествовать в течение трех месяцев; travel with smb. travel with friends (with one's parents, with one's tutor, etc.) путешествовать с друзьями и т.д. || travel in good company путешествовать в хорошей компании /в хорошем обществе/; travel under an assumed name путешествовать под вымышленным именем
    2) travel for smth., smb. travel for a firm (for a firm of jewellers in the City, for a business house, for a London publisher, etc.) ездить в качестве коммивояжера какой-л. фирмы и т.д.; travel in smth. travel in certain goods /wares/ (in carpets, in vacuum cleaners, in women's hats, in cotton goods, etc.) торговать какими-л. товарами в качестве коммивояжера и т.д.; he travels a great deal in his work no своей работе он много ездит || travel on business ездить по делам
    3) travel along smth. travel along a road (along a peaceful valley, along a rail, along rails, etc.) ехать /двигаться/ по дороге /вдоль дороги/ и т.д.; gas travels along this tube газ проходит по этой трубе; the goods travel along the conveyor товары движутся по конвейеру; travel from smth. to smth. travel from one part of the workshop to another перемещаться из одной части цеха /мастерской/ в другую; travel through smth. travel through the air перемещаться /двигаться/ в воздухе; travel in smth. light and sound travel in waves звук и свет распространяются волнами; travel at some speed travel at the rate of... (at four miles an hour, etc.) перемещаться /двигаться/ со скоростью... и т.д.; travel at some time how fast was the train travelling at the time of the accident? с какой скоростью шел поезд, когда произошел несчастный случай?
    4) travel over smth. (о взгляде) the general's eyes travelled over the enemy's position генерал рассматривал вражеские позиции
    8. XIX1
    travel like smth. nothing travels like light ничто не распространяется /не движется/ так быстро, как свет
    9. XXI1
    travel smth. in smth. travel many miles in a day (thousands of miles in a second, etc.) проходить расстояние во много миль за /в/ день и т.д.; а horse travels some fifty miles in a day за день лошадь проходит около пятидесяти миль; we travelled two hundred miles in one day за один день мы проехали двести миль; travel the whole world in search of novelty объехать весь мир в поисках чего-л. новенького

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > travel

  • 4 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

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