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slider

slider

8 3.0
A control that you move to change a setting on a device
  • noun
  • /ˈslaɪdər/
translation icon : control deslizante
  • To change the brightness, simply drag the slider until the screen looks right.
  • move the slider
  • adjust the slider
  • buttons and sliders

There's a bit rate slider and that's about it.

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Examples

  • Nathan adjusts the mood sliders, directing his puppet to feel happy and peppy.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Once these white and black points are set, the brightness slider can be adjusted.

    Academic text (2010)
  • We can take this slider and move it all the way to the right.

  • Simply move the slider until the image looks the way you want it.

    Academic text (2000)
  • If the value of the solution gets too small, I can blow the picture up using the zoom slider at the upper left.

  • To accomplish this, the left slider was moved to the right and the right slider moved to the left.

    Academic text (2009)
  • And it has this nice variable speed adjustment slider here on the right.

  • These will adjust your car's adaptive cruise control settings and the slider here we'll change your cruise control speed.

  • All modern ram-air parachutes have a device called a slider to retard deployment.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Nathan adjusts the mood sliders, directing his puppet to feel sad and tired.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

appetizer
vsslider
  • US
103 2.6

A small food or drink served before a main meal to make you hungry

is a small sandwich rather than other kinds of pre-meal dishes
adjuster
vsslider
3 3.8

A person or thing that moves something to the right position

is a control that moves smoothly rather than any general adjusting person or device
fader
vsslider
  • Specialized
2 4.4

A sliding control on a sound mixer that makes the sound louder or quieter

is used for many different settings rather than only audio
light appetizer
vsslider
3.2

A small not heavy dish served before the main meal to make you want to eat

is often a small sandwich snack that may be heavier than a light starter

How Big

sub
  • Informal
27 2.8
sandwich
800 1.0
slider
8 3.0

Surface Forms

slider singular
sliders plural

Morphology

slider = slide (semi-transparent) = slide + er

The control meaning is transparent (a device that slides), but the culinary meaning (small sandwich) is a specialized, idiomatic use not directly inferable from 'slide'.

Etymology

Slider comes from slide, which means 'to move smoothly'. A control called a slider is something you push or pull to change a setting, and the small sandwich called a slider may get its name because it 'slides' down easily or, one popular story says, cooks slid them across the counter.