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/slˈaɪdər/ Listen

noun

Slider n.

One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.

(Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa). (Local, U. S.)

(Zool.) Any of several North American freshwater turtles of the genus Chrysemis; some, such as Chrysemis scripta are sold commercially as pets.

(Baseball) A fast pitch that breaks slightly just in front of the batter, in the same direction as a curve ball (i. e., away from the side from which it was thrown).

Slider pump, a form of rotary pump.

adjective

Slider adj. See Slidder. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Slider'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slider" Quotes from Famous Books

... frame of the window at a point nearest your receiving set and push a porcelain tube 5/8 inch in diameter and 5 or 6 inches long, through it. Connect a length of wire to the top post of the arrester or just above it to the wire, run this through the leading-in insulator and connect it to the slider of your tuning coil. Screw the end of a piece of heavy copper wire to the lower post of the arrester and run it to the ground, on porcelain knobs if necessary, and solder it to an iron rod or pipe which you have ...

— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins

... inch square brass rod, to be fastened between the heads, are secured, and a slider, as shown in drawing, is made. The rods are fastened on the heads and the insulation in the path of the slides is then well scraped off. Binding posts are then fastened to rods ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... four kinds of terrapin are sold—not counting muskrat, which is sometimes disguised with sauce and sherry and served as a substitute. The cheapest and toughest terrapin is known as the "slider." Slightly superior to the "slider" is the "fat-back," measuring, usually, about nine or ten inches in length, and costing, at retail, fifty cents to a dollar, according to season and demand. Somewhat better than the "fat-back," but of about the same size and ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... of their courtly graces, to meet the scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian, who, whilst he is receiving their homage, is measuring them with his eye, and fitting to their size the slider of his guillotine! These ambassadors may easily return as good courtiers as they went; but can they ever return from that degrading residence, loyal and faithful subjects; or with any true affection ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... shown. Suppose that when we depress the switch in the oscillator circuit and so start the oscillations that the sliding contact is at o as shown. Corresponding to that strength of signal there is a certain value of current through the receiver winding at the other station. Now let us move the slider, first to a and then back to b and so on, back and forth. You see what will happen. We alternately make the current in the antenna larger and smaller than it originally was. When the slider is at b there is more of the fine wire in series with ...

— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills