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Petite vs Slider - What's the difference?

petite | slider |

As an adjective petite

is .

As a noun slider is

one who slides.

petite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
  • Of women's clothing: of small size.
  • Small, little; insignificant; petty.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
  • The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

    References

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    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