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slider

noun
/ˈslaɪdɚ/US

Etymology

From slide + -er. The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder". Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.

  1. inherited from *slīdaną✻ — “to slide, glide”
  2. inherited from *slīdan✻
  3. inherited from slīdan — “to slide”
  4. inherited from sliden
  5. formed as slider — “slide + -er”

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of slide

    Agent noun of slide: that which slides.

  2. A slideshow on a web page.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

back door slider, Cumberland slider, D'Orbigny's slider, Perth slider, pond slider, ranchslider, ranch slider, red-eared slider, skeleton slider, slider phone, slider pump, slurve, yellow-bellied slider, yellowbelly slider

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at slider. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at slider. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at slider

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA