Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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slider

/ˈslaɪdɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms sliders

  1. noun (electrical engineering) A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control.
  2. noun (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
  3. noun (architecture) A sliding door.
  4. noun (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.”
  5. noun (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
  6. noun A small hamburger or sandwich, typically served in a warm bun. “We ordered five sliders.”
  7. noun The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
  8. noun (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

miniburger minihamburger slide skidder slipper luger yellow-bellied terrapin Pseudemys scripta

Etymology

The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".
Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective See Slidder. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
  3. noun The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa). [Local, U. S. ]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “slider”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details