Slier vs Slider - What's the difference?
slier | slider |
(sly)
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense.
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Slyly.
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 slier
is (sly).As a noun slider is
one who slides.slier
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*sly
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
Synonyms
* artful * cunning * knowing * sharp * crafty * shrewd * shifty * sly as a fox * slim * wily * See alsoDerived terms
* sly as a fox * slyboots * slynessExternal links
* *Adverb
Anagrams
* ----slider
English
Noun
(en noun)- The closer had a wicked slider that was almost unhittable.
- We ordered five sliders .