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# slider

«slider» in Mova's school dictionary: **A control on a screen or machine that you move along a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a slider, sliders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A control on a screen or machine that you move along a line to change something, such as the volume or brightness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#m1)

2) (US) A small burger or sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#m2)

3) A person or thing that slides, such as a type of turtle (red-eared slider). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#m3)

4) (baseball, US) A type of pitch that curves sideways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#m4)

5) (UK, informal) A slide sandal or flip-flop-like shoe without a back (often "sliders"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In computing lessons and on devices sliders let you set values smoothly; in maths apps a slider can change a number on a graph. In science or nature a red-eared slider is a common pet turtle. In everyday US life sliders are mini burgers at parties. In UK talk, sliders are casual sandals for the beach or swimming pool.

### examples

- Drag the slider to turn up the volume. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#x1)
- Move the brightness slider to the left to make the screen darker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#x2)
- We had cheese sliders at the barbecue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#x3)
- My cousin has a red-eared slider turtle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#x4)
- He wore his sliders to the swimming pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#x5)
- The pitcher threw a slider and the batter missed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/#x6)

### note

Countable: a slider, sliders. From the verb "slide". The burger and baseball meanings are mainly American; the sandal meaning is mainly British.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.