What's the difference between slowdown and speed?

Slowdown


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
  • (2) A slowdown in foreign markets played a part in Britain's worse than expected trade deficit in July, though manufacturing made gains in line with improvements in Britain's domestic performance.
  • (3) Rather than experiencing a slowdown in its frenetic building sector, however, Kabul is increasingly overrun with precarious apartment blocks.
  • (4) Amna Asa, economist at Capital Economics , said: "The slowdown in global economic growth appears to have hit American manufacturers in April.
  • (5) Governments must defeat a rising tide of protectionism to prevent a further slowdown in global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.
  • (6) Fears are rising however that external tensions such as Russia's dispute with the west over Ukraine might exacerbate a slowdown in the UK if it starts to weigh on the economy in Europe – Britain's biggest trading partner.
  • (7) Pushing for change at the same time as the harshest ever slowdown in spending on the NHS may be justifiable.
  • (8) Industries such as retail, leisure and travel are also expected to experience a slowdown in their recovery.
  • (9) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
  • (10) So while many have claimed Britain was worst placed of any to withstand the global slowdown, the OECD and IMF have both shown that Britain last year had the highest growth of any of the G7 countries.
  • (11) A total of 71,638 loans were approved for house purchase, above the previous six-month average of 65,001 and the highest monthly figure since January 2008 when the credit crisis and economic slowdown started to take hold of the market.
  • (12) The US has released new figures showing shale output growing, while Chinese economic data all points to further factory slowdowns.
  • (13) But if "the slowdown reflects longer-lasting forces bearing down on activity", the implications are more profound.
  • (14) A slowdown in the rate of expansion in the first three months of the year is helpful to Gordon Brown's central message in the election campaign that the UK is too weak to withstand spending cuts this year.
  • (15) City economists expect the first official estimate of growth in the fourth quarter of 2013 to show a slight slowdown from previous month but still put the UK's recovery ahead of that in other western European countries.
  • (16) Oil prices remained below $50 a barrel, down from more than $110 a barrel last summer when the slowdown in China first became apparent.
  • (17) And as Wednesday's news of the biggest monthly drop in retail sales for more than two years indicates, this slowdown has spread along the high street.
  • (18) Commodity prices have slumped in reaction to the slowdown among some of the world’s biggest manufacturing nations.
  • (19) That slowdown would have a knock-on effect on the government’s finances and so borrowing was expected to be significantly higher than at the time of Osborne’s final budget back in March.
  • (20) With a sharp economic slowdown no consumer business is immune," Darroch added.

Speed


Definition:

  • (n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
  • (n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
  • (n.) To go; to fare.
  • (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
  • (n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
  • (n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
  • (n.) To be expedient.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
  • (v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
  • (v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
  • (3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
  • (4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (6) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
  • (8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
  • (11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
  • (12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
  • (13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
  • (15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
  • (16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
  • (17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
  • (19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
  • (20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.