Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - slew
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Slew
slew
I. past of slay II. variant of slough I 1b III. verb also slue Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1769 transitive verb 1. to turn (as a telescope or a ship's spar) about a fixed point that is usually the axis 2. to cause to skid ; veer ~ a car around a turn intransitive verb 1. to turn, twist, or swing about ; pivot 2. skid IV. noun Etymology: perhaps from Irish slua army, host, throng, from Old Irish sluag; akin to Lithuanian slaugyti to tend Date: 1839 a large number a ~ of books
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1. v. & n. (also slue) --v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by round) turn or swing forcibly or with effort out of the forward or ordinary position. --n. such a change of position. Etymology: 18th-c. Naut.: orig. unkn. 2. past of SLAY(1). 3. n. esp. US colloq. a large number or quantity. Etymology: Ir. sluagh ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. поворот; поворотное движение; разворот (орудия и т. п.) 2. (быстро) поворачивать it took time to slew the guns around —- потребовалось время, чтобы развернуть орудия 3. поворачиваться; крутиться the car slewed round in a complete circle on the icy road —- автомобиль развернулся на 180 градусов на обледеневшей дороге 4. разг. опьянять 5. разг. сбить с толку; обхитрить, обойти 6. ам. болото, трясина; заводь 7. ам. разг. множество; уйма; масса he had slews of work —- у него была масса работы 8. p. от slay ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I 1. noun поворот, поворотное движение 2. v. поворачивать(ся); вращать(ся) (around, round); The car slewed round on the icy road. The captain could not slew the ship round in time to avoid an accident. II noun amer. заводь; болото III noun amer.; coll. большое количество, очень много ...Англо-русский словарь
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(slews, slewing, slewed) 1. Slew is the past tense of slay. 2. If a vehicle slews or is slewed across a road, it slides across it. The bus slewed sideways... He slewed the car against the side of the building. VERB: V adv/prep, V n prep/adv 3. A slew of things is a large number of them. (mainly AM) There have been a whole slew of shooting incidents... N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N of n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~1 v T always + adv/prep to turn or swing suddenly and violently, or to make something do this + around/sideways (I lost control of the car and it slewed sideways into the ditch.) ~2 the past tense of slay ~3 n a slew of informal a large number of (We've got a whole slew of difficulties.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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