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

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -aɪdə(r)

Noun

slider (plural sliders)

1. Agent noun of slide: one who slides.
2. A sliding door.
3. (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.

4. (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
5. A small hamburger.

   We ordered five sliders.

6. (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
7. The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
8. (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.

9. (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
10. (US, dialect) the red-bellied terrapin (, syn. ).
11. (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
12. Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”)
13. 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

Synonyms

• (small hamburger): minihamburger

Translations

(curling) a piece of teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe

• Italian: scivolante (it)
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• Russian: сла́йдер (ru) m (slájdɛr)

(software, graphical user interface) a widget allowing the user to select a value or position

• Finnish: liukusäädin
• German: Schieberegler m
• Maori: rēreti
• Polish: suwak (pl) m
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• Portuguese: controlador deslizante m
• Russian: ползуно́к (ru) m (polzunók)
• Turkish: kaydırgaç, kaydırıcı (tr), sürgülü makara

See also

• curveball
• fastball
• cut fastball
• two-seam fastball
• split finger fastball
• sinker
• screwball
• knuckleball

Anagrams

• Riedls, idlers, sidler

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English slidor, from Proto-Germanic *slidraz.

Alternative forms

• slidder, sclydyr, sledyr, slidre, slidur, slidir, sklither, slidere, slyder, slydere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsliːdər/, /ˈslidər/, /ˈsliðər/

Adjective

slider

1. Causing slips; having low friction; greasy or slithery.
2. Like a liquid, flowing, inviscid.
3. (rare) Untrustworthy, bound to slip.
4. (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)

1. Unsurely, unsteadily.
2. Done without difficulty.

References

• “slider (adv.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English sliderian.

Verb

slider

1. Alternative form of slideren

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Spanish

Noun

slider m (plural sliders or slider)

1. (baseball) slider