Slider vs Glider - What's the difference?
slider | glider |
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.
(cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
A small hamburger.
(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.
Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
A pilot of glider aircraft.
Anything that glides, especially an animal or aircraft.
(mathematics) In the cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
A kind of garden swing.
* 2011 , Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good! (page 5)
As nouns the difference between slider and glider
is that slider is Agent noun of slide: one who slides while glider is any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.slider
English
Noun
(en noun)- The closer had a wicked slider that was almost unhittable.
- We ordered five sliders .
Synonyms
* (small hamburger) minihamburgerSee also
* curveball * fastball * cut fastball * two-seam fastball * split finger fastball * sinker * screwball * knuckleballAnagrams
* English agent nounsglider
English
(wikipedia glider)Noun
(en noun)- Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.