Slidey vs Slider - What's the difference?
slidey | slider |
(informal) Tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.
* 1998 , Charles Rosen, Barney Polan's game: a novel of the 1951 college basketball scandals (page 58)
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, passage=Tunes with titles like “Mazurka Maracaibo” shimmer with countless plucked strings. Mr. Brozman deploys everything from the small Bolivian charango to a Finnish harp called the kantele, while there’s usually something slidey to carry the melody. }} 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.
As an adjective slidey
is (informal) tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.As a noun slider is
one who slides.slidey
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I always prefer playing indoors on a soft, bouncy, slidey wood surface because outdoor asphalt courts release the day's heat slowly and the softened tar sucks at the bottoms of your sneakers.
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slider
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Noun
(en noun)- The closer had a wicked slider that was almost unhittable.
- We ordered five sliders .