Commentary:
NOTE: references to speed, productivity, magnitude, effect Includes: SLOW UP, SLOW DOWN
Examples:
Will you slow down for the sharp curves?
Not knowing what was around the corner, we slowed up.
Over the holiday period he slowed his blogging activities.
After installing the application, my system has slowed down.
Economic growth slowed by half.
HIV prevalence has slowed down.
As soon as the rain slowed, she walked back to her cabin.
Mappings:
PropBank: slow.01,slow.02,slow.03
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
slow_down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
slow_up 1, 2, 3
Commentary: Delaying or becoming a stumbling block to progress.
NOTE: This sense has the inference that the cause of the slowing is unexpected and undesired, not a natural occurrence. The object being slowed is progressing less than desired and expected. Includes: SLOW UP, SLOW DOWN
Examples:
News of pandemonion may have slowed the much needed aid.
Science is being slowed down by fraud.
We got slowed up in Minburn by slow drivers.
Mappings:
PropBank: slow.01,slow.03
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
slow_down 3
slow_up 2