different between backspin vs slider

English

Etymology

back +? spin

Noun

backspin (countable and uncountable, plural backspins)

1. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
2. (music) Synonym of spinback

Translations

Verb

backspin (third-person singular simple present backspins, present participle backspinning, simple past and past participle backspun)

1. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
2. (music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.

See also

• check spin
• sidespin
• topspin

Anagrams

• pinbacks, spinback

English

Etymology

From slide +? -er.

The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sla?d?/
• Rhymes: -a?d?(r)

Noun

slider (plural sliders)

1. Agent noun of slide: one who slides.
2. A sliding door.
3. (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.

4. (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
5. A small hamburger.

   We ordered five sliders.

6. (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
7. The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
8. (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
   • 2008, Paul McFedries, Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed (page 186)

     In the Vista Volume Mixer tool, when you move the speaker volume slider, the program sliders move along with it.

9. (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
10. (US, dialect) the red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
11. (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
12. Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”)
13. An open-toed and backless sandal
    • 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop

      Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts
      Chicks tryna get my brotha Flips to share his thoughts

Synonyms

• (small hamburger): miniburger, minihamburger

Translations

See also

• curveball
• fastball
• cut fastball
• two-seam fastball
• split finger fastball
• sinker
• screwball
• knuckleball

Anagrams

• Riedls, idlers, sidler

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English slidor, from Proto-West Germanic *slidr.

Alternative forms

• slidder, sclydyr, sledyr, slidre, slidur, slidir, sklither, slidere, slyder, slydere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sli?d?r/, /?slid?r/, /?slið?r/

Adjective

slider

1. Causing slips; having low friction; greasy or slithery.
2. Like a liquid, flowing, inviscid.
3. (rare) Untrustworthy, bound to slip.
4. (rare) Even; having a smoothened surface.

Related terms

• slideren
• slidery

Descendants

• English: slidder, slither (obsolete as an adjective)

References

• “slider, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.

Adverb

slider (rare)

1. Unsurely, unsteadily.
2. Done without difficulty.

References

• “slider, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-04.

Etymology 2

Verb

slider

1. Alternative form of slideren

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?laide?/, [es?lai?.ð?e?]

Noun

slider m (plural sliders or slider)

1. (baseball) slider

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slideren, from Old English sliderian, from Proto-West Germanic *slidr?n.

Verb

slider

1. to slip

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN