slow vs zip

slow

verb
  • To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. 

  • To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. 

  • To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. 

adv
  • Slowly. 

adj
  • Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time. 

  • Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness. 

  • Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. 

  • Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. 

  • Not busy; lacking activity. 

  • Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. 

  • Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution. 

noun
  • A slow song. 

  • Someone who is slow; a sluggard. 

zip

verb
  • To make (something) move quickly 

  • To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound. 

  • To close as if with a zip fastener. 

  • To subject to the convolution mapping function. 

  • To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format. 

  • To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place). 

  • To travel on a zipline. 

  • To close with a zip fastener. 

noun
  • The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. 

  • An ounce of marijuana. 

  • Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”) 

  • Zero; nothing. 

  • A zip fastener. 

  • Energy; vigor; vim. 

  • A trip on a zipline. 

  • A zip file. 

intj
  • Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. 

How often have the words slow and zip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )