different between slender vs gooseneck

English

Etymology

From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Old Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd?- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sl?nd?/
• (General American) enPR: sl?n?d?r, IPA^(key): /?sl?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: slen?der

Adjective

slender (comparative slenderer, superlative slenderest)

1. Thin; slim.

2. (figuratively) meagre; deficient

   Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.

3. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

Synonyms

• (thin): lithe, svelte, willowy; see also Thesaurus:slender
• (meagre): insufficient, scarce, sparse; see also Thesaurus:inadequate

Antonyms

• (palatalized): broad
• See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

• slender reed

Translations

Anagrams

• lenders, relends

English

Etymology

goose +? neck

Noun

gooseneck (plural goosenecks)

1. (often attributive) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
   • 1961, James S. Holton, Sound Language Teaching: The State of the Art Today (page 77)

     The gooseneck microphone. Mounted to the desk or to the side wall of the booth, the gooseneck offers a limited degree of flexibility for height and depth adjustment of the microphone.

2. (nautical) The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.

Related terms

• gooseneck barnacle

Translations