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verb sluːslu 1no object, with adverbial of direction Turn or slide violently or uncontrollably. no object the Renault slewed from side to side in the snow with object he slewed the aircraft round before it settled on the runway Example sentencesExamples - As I looked back, I thought a train had just slewed across the down line.
- As soon as it touched the ground, the other engine cut out and the plane slewed off the runway before coming to rest on the grass.
- It travels another mile before it begins to slew out of control.
- He slipped, slewed, shimmied, and then gracefully rolled to a stop at the bottom.
- Opal laughed again and let loose a cannonade of bullets, all steel-tipped for the armor of the truck, and stood his ground as the truck continued to slew towards him.
- I thought I was in the clear when I felt and heard a ‘thud,’ and the jet slewed to the right.
- Jack slammed on the brakes and slewed to a stop in a cloud of dust.
- My thoughts flickered back to the night, headlights slewing across the dark tarmac, the body sprawled like a broken bird.
- On my daily commute, I have seen so many instances of bad driving by mobile phone users, from never indicating to slewing all over the road, that it is beyond all doubt that drivers using mobile phones are a menace.
- The racer slued to the side and hit a ditch that Brent had not seen.
- Additionally, when performing sharp lane changes at higher speeds, the car will have fewer tendencies to produce yaw; or to put it another way, it will not slew about as much.
- White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom.
- The ship was blown over to a constant list of between 5-10°, and waves occasionally slewed in through the ports, sloshing along the starboard deck and then out again somewhere near the stern.
- Its head slewed back, breaking the contact that it needed to feed.
- After his maligned defence had slewed apart in the opener against Sweden, he spent so much time restoring their shape that they are now among the most solid in the tournament.
- As the waiting travellers watched in frozen horror, it slewed crazily to one side as it carried on towards them, wrecking the parapets and heading broadside for the station.
- No sooner had I closed my notebook on it pending a future revision and expansion than the wind slewed round, gathered breath, and commenced to blow.
- The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
- Brakes strident, slewing to one side like a crippled ocean liner, I'd found myself pulling over to pick him up.
- It slewed to the right as it came to a halt, just yards from the neighbouring golf course.
Synonyms glide, move smoothly, slip, slither, skim, skate, glissade, coast, plane 2no object (of an electronic device) undergo slewing. Example sentencesExamples - Likewise all practical digital signals are analogue, since the system takes a finite time to slew between any two states.
- Today's announcement marks the first BAT detection autonomously followed by XRT detection, demonstrating the satellite is swiftly slewing as planned.
- The telescope slewed to the coordinates as soon as it received the alert and within seven minutes of the start of the burst, it began observations.
- A grid entered into the navigation system can be used to cue and slew aircraft sensors, weapons, and even the helmet-mounted sight.
- ZHS-Zero House Swing - Sometimes incorrectly called zero tail swing, this means that the house and counterweights stay within the machine's width during slewing.
noun sluːslu A violent or uncontrollable sliding movement. I was assaulted by the thump and slew of the van Example sentencesExamples - One object of the invention is to dynamically reduce resistance in order to decrease the time constant during the signal transition for allowing a more rapid slew of the signal from one logic state to another.
- It is preferred that the control means be adapted to adjust automatically the slew of the discharge boom relative to the hopper car.
Synonyms turning aside, turning away, turning, diversion, drawing away
Origin Mid 18th century (originally in nautical use): of unknown origin. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo noun sluːslu North American informal A large number or quantity of something. he asked me a slew of questions Example sentencesExamples - As you can see from a slew of the posts below, there's just no end of scandals, investigations and - generally speaking - muck to be raked nowadays.
- We'll have a slew of major establishment players running simply because it's ‘their time to run.’
- None of the batsmen could top 31, and a slew of single-digit scores saw them slump to 107 all out.
- A slew of elementary-school field trippers trekked through the exhibits last week, along with hard-core history buffs from the surrounding area.
- Every few minutes whistles sounded and the workers left the hill as a slew of garbage came raining down, erecting the pile higher again.
- And then all of a sudden we had a slew of defectors come out in the mid- and late 1990s and what they told us was that everything that we had thought was wrong.
- But this complicates the question as much as it clarifies it, because ‘war’ also involves a slew of protections.
- Gates offers a slew of models for redistributing wealth and reclaiming natural resources.
- Normally there would have been a slew of scores around 37-35 but under the wet conditions, the ball just did not travel as most expected.
- Throughout college, I had a slew of unpaid internships.
Synonyms wide variety, large number, lot, diversity, range
Origin Mid 19th century: from Irish sluagh. verbslo͞oslu 1Turn or slide violently or uncontrollably in a particular direction. no object the Chevy slewed from side to side in the snow with object he managed to slew the aircraft around before it settled on the runway Example sentencesExamples - Opal laughed again and let loose a cannonade of bullets, all steel-tipped for the armor of the truck, and stood his ground as the truck continued to slew towards him.
- My thoughts flickered back to the night, headlights slewing across the dark tarmac, the body sprawled like a broken bird.
- Additionally, when performing sharp lane changes at higher speeds, the car will have fewer tendencies to produce yaw; or to put it another way, it will not slew about as much.
- I thought I was in the clear when I felt and heard a ‘thud,’ and the jet slewed to the right.
- Jack slammed on the brakes and slewed to a stop in a cloud of dust.
- White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom.
- He slipped, slewed, shimmied, and then gracefully rolled to a stop at the bottom.
- As the waiting travellers watched in frozen horror, it slewed crazily to one side as it carried on towards them, wrecking the parapets and heading broadside for the station.
- It slewed to the right as it came to a halt, just yards from the neighbouring golf course.
- On my daily commute, I have seen so many instances of bad driving by mobile phone users, from never indicating to slewing all over the road, that it is beyond all doubt that drivers using mobile phones are a menace.
- As soon as it touched the ground, the other engine cut out and the plane slewed off the runway before coming to rest on the grass.
- It travels another mile before it begins to slew out of control.
- The racer slued to the side and hit a ditch that Brent had not seen.
- After his maligned defence had slewed apart in the opener against Sweden, he spent so much time restoring their shape that they are now among the most solid in the tournament.
- The ship was blown over to a constant list of between 5-10°, and waves occasionally slewed in through the ports, sloshing along the starboard deck and then out again somewhere near the stern.
- The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
- Its head slewed back, breaking the contact that it needed to feed.
- Brakes strident, slewing to one side like a crippled ocean liner, I'd found myself pulling over to pick him up.
- No sooner had I closed my notebook on it pending a future revision and expansion than the wind slewed round, gathered breath, and commenced to blow.
- As I looked back, I thought a train had just slewed across the down line.
Synonyms glide, move smoothly, slip, slither, skim, skate, glissade, coast, plane 2no object (of an electronic device) undergo slewing. Example sentencesExamples - Likewise all practical digital signals are analogue, since the system takes a finite time to slew between any two states.
- ZHS-Zero House Swing - Sometimes incorrectly called zero tail swing, this means that the house and counterweights stay within the machine's width during slewing.
- Today's announcement marks the first BAT detection autonomously followed by XRT detection, demonstrating the satellite is swiftly slewing as planned.
- A grid entered into the navigation system can be used to cue and slew aircraft sensors, weapons, and even the helmet-mounted sight.
- The telescope slewed to the coordinates as soon as it received the alert and within seven minutes of the start of the burst, it began observations.
nounslo͞oslu A violent or uncontrollable sliding movement. I was assaulted by the thump and slew of the van Example sentencesExamples - One object of the invention is to dynamically reduce resistance in order to decrease the time constant during the signal transition for allowing a more rapid slew of the signal from one logic state to another.
- It is preferred that the control means be adapted to adjust automatically the slew of the discharge boom relative to the hopper car.
Synonyms turning aside, turning away, turning, diversion, drawing away
Origin Mid 18th century (originally in nautical use): of unknown origin. nounslo͞oslu North American informal A large number or quantity of something. he asked me a slew of questions Example sentencesExamples - Throughout college, I had a slew of unpaid internships.
- Gates offers a slew of models for redistributing wealth and reclaiming natural resources.
- But this complicates the question as much as it clarifies it, because ‘war’ also involves a slew of protections.
- As you can see from a slew of the posts below, there's just no end of scandals, investigations and - generally speaking - muck to be raked nowadays.
- A slew of elementary-school field trippers trekked through the exhibits last week, along with hard-core history buffs from the surrounding area.
- None of the batsmen could top 31, and a slew of single-digit scores saw them slump to 107 all out.
- Every few minutes whistles sounded and the workers left the hill as a slew of garbage came raining down, erecting the pile higher again.
- We'll have a slew of major establishment players running simply because it's ‘their time to run.’
- Normally there would have been a slew of scores around 37-35 but under the wet conditions, the ball just did not travel as most expected.
- And then all of a sudden we had a slew of defectors come out in the mid- and late 1990s and what they told us was that everything that we had thought was wrong.
Synonyms wide variety, large number, lot, diversity, range
Origin Mid 19th century: from Irish sluagh. |