slider
See also: Slider
English
Etymology
From slide + -er.
The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslaɪdɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Noun
slider (plural sliders)
- Agent noun of slide: one who slides.
- A sliding door.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher.
- The closer had a wicked slider that was almost unhittable.
- (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
- A small hamburger.
- We ordered five sliders.
- (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
- The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
- (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
- 2008, Paul McFedries, Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed (page 186)
- In the Vista Volume Mixer tool, when you move the speaker volume slider, the program sliders move along with it.
- 2008, Paul McFedries, Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed (page 186)
- (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
- (US, dialect) the red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
- (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
- Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”)
- An open-toed and backless sandal
- 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop
- Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts
Chicks tryna get my brotha Flips to share his thoughts
- Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts
- 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop
Synonyms
- (small hamburger): miniburger, minihamburger
Translations
(curling) a piece of teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe
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(software, graphical user interface) a widget allowing the user to select a value or position
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See also
- curveball
- fastball
- cut fastball
- two-seam fastball
- split finger fastball
- sinker
- screwball
- knuckleball
Anagrams
- Riedls, idlers, reslid, sidler
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English slidor, from Proto-West Germanic *slidr.
Alternative forms
- slidder, sclydyr, sledyr, slidre, slidur, slidir, sklither, slidere, slyder, slydere
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsliːdər/, /ˈslidər/, /ˈsliðər/
Adjective
slider
- Causing slips; having low friction; greasy or slithery.
- Like a liquid, flowing, inviscid.
- (rare) Untrustworthy, bound to slip.
- (rare) Even; having a smoothened surface.
Related terms
- slideren
- slidery
Descendants
- English: slidder, slither (obsolete as an adjective)
References
- “slider, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.
Adverb
slider (rare)
- Unsurely, unsteadily.
- Done without difficulty.
References
- “slider, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.
Verb
slider
- Alternative form of slideren
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈlaideɾ/ [esˈlai̯.ð̞eɾ]
- Rhymes: -aideɾ
Noun
slider m (plural sliders or slider)
- (baseball) slider
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English slideren, from Old English sliderian, from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn.
Verb
slider
- to slip
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 68