different between foreflow vs foreslow

English

Etymology

From fore- +? flow.

Verb

foreflow (third-person singular simple present foreflows, present participle foreflowing, simple past and past participle foreflowed)

1. (transitive) To flow before.

Noun

foreflow (plural foreflows)

1. The act or process of foreflowing.
2. That which foreflows.
3. (engineering) A channel or conduit which permits gases or liquids to foreflow.

See also

• afterflow

English

Alternative forms

• forslow

Etymology

Alteration of earlier forslow (spelling presumably influenced by fore-), from Middle English forslowen. More at forslow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??(?)?sl??/, /f?(?)?sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

foreslow (third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow, and to move with more than one motion.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.

   • No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “foreslow”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN