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slider|ˈslaɪdə(r)|
[f. slide v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who slides; † a skater.
1530Palsgr. 225/2 Glydar, a slyder. 1598Florio, Sbrisciatore,..a slider vpon the yse. a1700Evelyn Diary 1 Dec. 1662, The strange and wonderful dexterity of the sliders on the new Canal. a1851Moir Poet. Wks. (1852) II. 386 The ring of the slider's heel. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. iii, The skaters and sliders had brushed the snow away.
transf.1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xiii. 297 The rocks of Britain bear to this day the traces of these mighty sliders [sc. glaciers].
b. Rowing. One who uses a sliding seat.
1880Daily News 22 Nov. 5/3 Hanlan, the Canadian,..is a great slider.
c. U.S. The red-bellied terrapin. Also attrib.
1877Scribner's Monthly Nov. 11/1 ‘Sliders’, the common river turtles of almost all the rivers of the region, grow to a much larger size. 1883Science I. 149/2 The heart of the ‘slider’ terrapin. 1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. 155 The ‘Red⁓bellied Terrapin’, Pseudemys rugosa,..is also known under the names ‘Potter’, ‘Red-fender’, and ‘Slider’.
d. Baseball. A fast pitch that breaks or slides away from its original path.
1936Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 12/6 It looks like what some of the modern pitchers call ‘a slider’. 1980Washington Post 1 Aug. d3/3 The human body isn't meant to throw the slider.
2. A beam or plank on which something heavy may be slid; also dial., a sledge.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 51 Thee wheels wee prop with a number Of beams and sliders. 1805R. Sutcliff Jrnl. 6 Jan. in Trav. N. Amer. (1811) iv. 67 They make use of a boat that has two sliders, one on each side the keel. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 680 In the Hill country..the hay is always carried in upon slitters or sliders. 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 679 Two lines of ‘sliders’, consisting of heavy oak plank,..are placed..on each side of the keel, and one line of sliders under the keel.
3. Mining. (See quot. 1828.)
1653E. Manlove Customs Lead-Mines 257 (E.D.S.), Bunnings, Polings, Stemples, Forks, and Slyder. 1746Hooson Miner's Dict. s.v., Sliders are cut of such a Length as the Miner designs the Square of his Shaft to be. Ibid. s.v. Squarewood, This consisteth of two Sliders and two Forks. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Sliders and forks, timbers for the support of shafts and sumps in mines.
4. a. A thing or part which slides or may be slid; esp. a sliding part or device in some mechanical apparatus.
1681Grew Musæum iv. ii. 366 A Slider, with a thin Plate-Spring, which plays against the said Teeth. 1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xxiv. 130 A small Line must be drawn quite thro' the Slider. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xxii. 339 (Dubl.), To fix in this Wreath from coming off, we make use of the Slider. 1763Museum Rust. I. 78 The aperture in the floor of the third cell is shut by means of the slider. 1790Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 27 The front of this vessel is a plate of glass, and the back a tin⁓plate slider. 1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 751/1 In a groove under the dovetail is a slider L, moved by a wire K. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 983 Betwixt these guides, friction-roller sliders are placed,..to which sliders the corves are suspended. 1884Law Times LXXVIII. 8/1 An upright rod, up and down which worked a slider which contained the cartridge.
fig.1825Hazlitt Spirit of Age 64 He has only to draw the sliders of his imagination, and a thousand subjects expand before him.
b. Organ-building. (See quot. 1875.)
1781Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) VIII. 5747/2 R, R, are the rollers, to move the sliders, by help of the arms cf, cf. 1855Hopkins Organ 43 The pallets and sliders of the several sound-boards. 1875Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms s.v. Organ, We now apply the word slide or slider only to that strip of wood which, passing under a row of pipes from right to left, admits the air to a particular row of pipes or stops. 1881C. A. Edwards Organs 56 The sliders are long pieces of wood, usually made of mahogany.
c. Locksmithing. A tumbler that moves horizontally.
1796Repertory Arts V. 227 In these notches are placed six sliders or small bars. 1833Holland Manuf. Metal II. 268 The form of these levers, sliders, or other movables..may be varied without end. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 242/2 In these slits are inserted little pieces of steel, called sliders.
d. Part of a guillotine. Also fig.
1795Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 109 Fitting to their size the slider of his guillotine! 1798Loves of Triangles in Anti-Jacobin (1799) 141 To the pois'd plank tie fast the monster's back, Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack. [1903Morley Gladstone x. ii. (1905) II. 618 The report next fell under what Burke calls the accursed slider.]
e. Bell-ringing. (See quot. 1901.)
1871[see stay n.2 2 h]. 1901H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 4 Slider, usually a bar of wood pivoted at one end on one of the lower members of the ‘frame’, and extending across the bottom of the ‘bell⁓pit’ so that its free end may move to and fro on a bed provided for it on the opposite side of the ‘pit’. 1931E. Morris Hist. & Art Change Ringing i. 15 For many years..bells were rung without stay or slider as we now know them. Ibid., Stedman..mentions what would be the fore⁓runner of the stay and slider adjustment. 1974J. Camp Bell Ringing ii. 30 (caption) The stay has pushed the slider to the limit of its movement and the bell cannot turn any further.
f. A sliding electrical contact, forming part of a variable resistance or the like, or serving as a control on electrical equipment.
1872Jrnl. Soc. Electr. Engineers I. 202 The slider n is moved on the compensating wire so as to destroy the deflection of the galvonometer. 1923Popular Wireless 13 Oct. Suppl. 1 Suppose we have a coil consisting of 500 turns of No. 22 wire,..fitted with a slider, and we wish to know approximately where to put the slider to receive the Dutch concerts. 1965Wireless World Sept. 432/1 The base..is taken to the slider of a potentiometer connected across the output terminals of the power supply. 1975Hi-Fi Answers Feb. 76/3 Set the input level sliders to about three-quarters of full travel and route the signal back through the amplifier by means of the tape monitor button. 1978Gramophone Aug. 392/3 The latest in Bang and Olufsen's range of Beomaster tuner-amplifiers is..distinguished by its..absence of switches and knobs—all functions being handled by sliders, press-keys, and wheels.
5. a. A device for holding, and inserting in a microscope, the glass or other plates with the objects to be studied. ? Obs.
1702Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1357 The Sliders with the plain and concave Glass plates for Objects [are] very convenient. 1740Ibid. XLI. 515 Making use of fine transparent Muscovy Talc or Isinglass, placed in Sliders, to inclose Objects in. 1822J. Imison Sci. & Art I. 280 You may change the objects in your sliders for what others you think proper. 1855Lardner Mus. Sci. & Art VI. 94 The wings..of this gnat..make very beautiful objects when mounted under thin glass in sliders.
b. A lantern-slide. ? Obs.
1793W. & S. Jones Catal. Optical (etc.) Instr. 3 Small magic lanthorns, with twelve sliders complete. 1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 246 A second face coming across us, like the sliders of a magic lantern. c1865Wylde's Circ. Sci. I. 64/1 One of these sliders will give a picture upon the white screen.
†6. A sliding ring, loop, or similar device, used to fasten an article of dress, the hair, a long purse, etc. Obs.
The sense in quot. 1699 is uncertain.
1699J. Dickenson Jrnl. Trav. 64 The Governour..gave us a Shirt and Sliders, a Hat, and a pair of Silk-Stockins. 1742A. Monro in Med. Ess. Edinb. V. 455 Till the Slip⁓ring or Slider is thrust towards the End of the Handles. 1782[T. Vaughan] Fashionable Follies II. ccxiv. 138 A purse, with brilliant sliders, and a pair of very fine shoe buckles. 1810S. Green Reformist I. 81 Drawing the sliders of his weighty purse,..he threw down two guineas.
7. a. A stand or holder for a bottle or decanter, intended to be slid along the table; a coaster.
1770tr. Mme. du Bocage's Lett. I. 67 Litte round vessels called sliders, of the same [Indian] wood, serve to hold the bottles. 1895‘Sarah Tytler’ Macdonald Lass ix. 123 There are the sliders and the cruet, and father's tankard. 1905Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 6/6 Two chased and pierced decanter sliders.
b. Ice-cream served in a sandwich form between two wafers. colloq.
1915J. J. Bell Wee Macgregor Enlists ii, Come on oot wi' me an' I'll stan' ye a dizzen sliders. 1935L. Mac-Neice Poems 63 Ice cream in sliders Bought in dusty streets. 1967R. Mackay House & Day 75 ‘I'll have a slider too.’.. The woman took a wafer..and covered it with the thin yellow ice-cream... She put a second wafer on the top.
8. attrib. and Comb., as slider bridge, slider clutch, slider control, slider-crank, slider-holder, slider potentiometer, slider-pump, slider switch, slider tube.
1919S. F. Walker Electr. Mining Machinery xxiii. 186 Use of the *slider bridge in connection with the loop test for finding a fault to earth in a cable.
1972World of Wild Wheels (Custom Car) 57/2 One of the latest innovations being tried in the States..is the *slider clutch. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. f14/1 (Advt.), Enderle fuel injection, 2 spd Lenco, new slider clutch, Airheart disc brks.
1973Wireless World Oct. 72 (Advt.), Top quality *slider controls.
1884Cotterill Appl. Mech. 113 Mechanisms derived from the *slider-crank chain.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 713/2 The *slider-holder should be removed when you are going to view opaque objects. 1837Goring & Pritchard Microg. 13 The slider-holder..must be very small.
1972Wireless World Jan. 88/2 (Advt.), New *slider potentiometers. As used on only the most exclusive of Audio Amplifiers and Mixers.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Slider-pump, a form of Rotary Pump.
1970Wireless World July 87/2 (Advt.), *Slider switches. Double pole, double throw.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 51 A..lens fastened to the *slider tube. |