Retard
['rɪtɑːd] or ['rɪtɑrd]
Definition
(verb.) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; 'This drug will retard your heart rate'.
(verb.) be delayed.
Typed by Leigh--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
(v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
(v. i.) To stay back.
(n.) Retardation; delay.
Inputed by Huntington
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Check, obstruct, clog, impede, hinder.[2]. Delay, defer, postpone, adjourn, procrastinate, put off.
Checker: Victoria
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer
ANT:Accelerate, expedite, promote
Typist: Portia
Definition
v.t. to keep back: to delay: to defer.—adj. Retar′dant.—n. Retardā′tion delay: hinderance: obstacle: (phys.) a continuous decrement in velocity: in acoustics the distance by which one wave is behind another: (mus.) the act of diminishing the rate of speed: (teleg.) decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.—adjs. Retar′dātive tending or serving to retard; Retar′dātory.—ns. Retar′der; Retard′ment.—Retardation of mean solar time the change of the sun's right ascension in a sidereal day.
Typist: Ora
Examples
- The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He had a few thousand regular cavalry left, but not enough to even retard materially the progress of Wilson's cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Let it be as thou wilt, said Rebecca, when eight days have passed away; but think not, and speak not now, of aught that may retard thy recovery. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Means were provided to start and to stop the car, and to retard its otherwise sudden fall and stoppage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Neither the quality of the forces nor their numbers was sufficient to even retard the progress of Sherman's army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was constant skirmishing and fighting between the cavalry of the two armies, but this did not retard the advance of the infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Opposition, even of the most strenuous order, has never been able to retard for long the use of an invention that simplifies industry. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The result would often be greatly retarded by free intercrossing. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Ten loaded hammocks retarded its pace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It may be retarded; but that is all. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The collision had retarded our progress and now a hundred swift scouts were close upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In fact the growth of the newly opened Western country must have been indefinitely retarded if men had had to cut the grain by hand and harvest it in the primitive manner. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The heavy overhanging timber retarded progress very much, as did also the short turns in so narrow a stream. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It would be hard to find a line of business where progress would not be seriously retarded by an impairment of the present telephone efficiency. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The balance wheel moves very rapidly, and, therefore, its movement must be as free as possible from retarding friction, so its bearing pivots are made very small. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Although sunlight is essential to the growth of most plants and animals, it retards and prevents the growth of bacteria. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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