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Princeton's WordNet

  1. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadverb

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

  2. swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cutverb

    turn sharply; change direction abruptly

    "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

  3. skid, slip, slue, slew, slideverb

    move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

    "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Slewthe preterite of slay.

    He slew Hamet, a great commander among the Numidians, and chased Benchades and Amida, two of their greatest princes, out of the country. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

ChatGPT

  1. slew

    A slew is a large amount or number of something. The term can be used to refer to a multitude, a plethora or a quantity of items or occurrences. The term can also refer to the act of turning or changing direction quickly, especially in the context of machinery or equipment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slew

    of Slay

  2. Slew

    imp. of Slay

  3. Slewverb

    see Slue

  4. Etymology: [See Slough a wet place.]

Wikidata

  1. Slew

    Slew and slewing are a terms which can refer to a spacecraft's orientation or movement in reference to a plane or fixed position such as Earth, the Sun, another celestial body or other point in space. During space flight, a craft's attitude must be controlled for reasons dependant upon the craft's mission. Keeping a spacecraft slewed properly is vital toward ensuring that its high-gain antenna remains oriented toward Earth for sending and receiving data and commands. Additionally with many craft, keeping their solar arrays angled toward the Sun optimizes their power absorption and reduces the craft's reliance on internal power systems. Thermal heating and cooling of a craft and its subsystems can also be controlled by the craft's orientation. Cameras or other sensing equipment that are fixed into position upon the craft need to be aimed by slewing the craft. A spacecraft can either be spin stabilized or 3-axis stabilized to maintain proper orientation. For spin-stabilized spacecraft, slewing is accomplished by applying a torque to the spacecraft, in general by operating a thruster in synchronous or asynchronous direction to its spin to adjust its spin rate. This results in a precession and slews for this kind of spacecraft are therefore also called "precession manoeuvre."

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slew

    slōō, pa.t. of slay.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slew in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slew in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of slew in a Sentence

  1. Zhou Junan:

    There is no good economic news to boost the stocks after a slew of weak economic data.

  2. Carlos Watson:

    Then I heard somebody have an assault rifle, and it was a slew of shots that came out.

  3. Happymon Jacob:

    Politically, it's advantage BJP, the scrapping of Article 370 of the constitution is likely to set off a slew of political, constitutional and legal battles, not to speak of the battles on the streets of Kashmir.

  4. Jim Green:

    The New Horizons mission has taken what we thought we knew about Pluto and turned it upside down, the New Horizons mission's why we explore -- to satisfy our innate curiosity and answer deeper questions about how we got here and what lies beyond the next horizon. Related : Spacecraft achieves flyby of Pluto, then calls home September NASA, which is discussing a slew of Pluto discoveries at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in National Harbor, Md. this week, highlighted the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ as a key finding. Geologists on the New Horizons team combined images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D maps that indicate two of Pluto’s most distinctive mountains could be ice volcanoes. In its statement September NASA explained that the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ may even have been active in the recent past. The two candidates are large features on the dwarf planet’s surface measuring tens of miles across and several miles high. Related : September NASA releases first Pluto flyby images.

  5. Michael Mina:

    For less than.1 % of what this virus is costing America, every American could have a whole slew of these tests in their homes.

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