slider

From slide +‎ -er.

The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈslaɪdɚ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

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 (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
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

• (small hamburger): miniburger, minihamburger

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

• Riedls, idlers, reslid, sidler

From Old English slidor, from Proto-West Germanic *slidr.

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

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

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.

• slideren
• slidery

• English: slidder, slither (obsolete as an adjective)

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

slider (rare)

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

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

slider

1. Alternative form of slideren

• IPA^(key): /esˈlaideɾ/ [esˈlai̯.ð̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -aideɾ

slider m (plural sliders or slider)

1. (baseball) slider

From Middle English slideren, from Old English sliderian, from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn.

slider

1. to slip

• 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