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Slider vs Curve - What's the difference?

slider | curve |

As a noun slider

is one who slides.

As a verb curve is

.

slider

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who slides.
  • (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.
  • (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
  • (US, dialect) Pseudemys rugosa , the red-bellied terrapin.
  • (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
  • A sliding door.

    • Synonyms

    * (small hamburger) minihamburger

    See also

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

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    curve

    English

    Adjective

  • (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
    • a curve line
    a curve surface

    Noun

    (wikipedia curve) (en noun)
  • A gentle bend, such as in a road.
    • You should slow down when approaching a curve .
  • A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
    • She scribbled a curve on the paper.
  • A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
    • The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
  • (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  • (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
  • (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  • (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
  • (informal, usually in plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

    • Derived terms

    * algebraic curve * * closed curve * cosine curve * curvaceous * curvy * dragon curve * elliptic curve * learning curve * Lissajous curve * Jordan curve * multicurve * nonsimple curve * open curve * pedal curve * plane curve * pursuit curve * simple curve * sine curve * space curve * spherical curve

    Verb

    (curv)
  • To bend; to crook.
    • to curve a line
    to curve a pipe
  • To cause to swerve from a straight course.
    • to curve a ball in pitching it
  • To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
    • the road curves to the right
  • To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
    • The teacher will curve the test.