travel+slowly

  • 51cortege —    (kor TEHZH) [French, from Italian] A ceremonial procession, as in a “funeral cortege.” A train of attendants accompanying an important person; a retinue.    The cortege will travel slowly from the church to the cemetery. The Guardian, May 15,… …

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  • 52jog on — Trudge, lumber, travel slowly …

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  • 53plod — v. n. 1. Trudge, jog on, travel slowly but steadily. 2. Toil, drudge, moil, hold on, keep on, keep at it, work hard …

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  • 54loiter — verb (I) 1 to stand or wait somewhere, especially in a public place, without any clear reason: Watch out for any strangers loitering in residential streets. 2 to move or travel slowly, or to keep stopping when you should keep moving: Don t loiter …

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  • 55wend — verb wend your way especially literary to move or travel slowly from one place to another: The procession wended its way through the streets …

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  • 56a rolling stone gathers no moss — Cf. ERASMUS Adages III. iv. λίθος κυλινδόμενος τὸ φῦκος οὐ ποιεῖ, a rolling stone does not gather sea weed; musco lapis volutus haud obducitur, a rolling stone is not covered with moss. 1362 LANGLAND Piers Plowman A. x. 101 Selden Moseth [becomes …

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  • 57float|er — «FLOH tuhr», noun. 1. a person or thing that floats. 2. Informal. a person who often changes his place of living or working: »A Cleveland restaurant chain operator bemoans the number of “floaters” who won t stick to a job (Wall Street Journal). 3 …

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  • 58Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …

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  • 59literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 60United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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