What's the difference between slicer and slider?

Slicer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fresh human, rat, and rabbit liver was processed using a mechanical slicer.
  • (2) The degree of atlas-quality, anatomic precision achieved makes the brain slicer also uniquely suited for the preparation of anatomically defined brain regions for use as transplants.
  • (3) Adrenal slices (200 mu) were prepared from cores of beef adrenals using a McIlwain Tissue Slicer and incubated.
  • (4) The remaining half of the pituitary was sliced with a Staddie-Riggs slicer.
  • (5) ("Cheeses were sliced into cubes using a wire slicer within two hours of presentation.
  • (6) And by the way, those net curtains need a boil, and Clive, stop picking your nose by the bacon slicer."
  • (7) (2) A vibrating tissue slicer was used to cut thin slices in which individual neurones could be identified visually.
  • (8) Crushed root vegetables with crisp brussels sprouts You’ll speed things up considerably if you cut the sprouts on a mandoline (or with the slicer attachment of a food processor).
  • (9) Using this slicer, 6-8 uniform slices of 500 microns thickness were obtained from mouse or rat brain.
  • (10) The meat slicer was set to extra thin when it came to the issue of whether the dinner was a fundraiser or not a fundraiser.
  • (11) It’s an invention surely up there with the equally necessary egg cube (because oval eggs are so 2010) and the banana slicer (because knives just don’t cut it anymore.)
  • (12) And not just to explain Emwazi’s transformation from a smiling child into the gleeful slicer of throats who has become the global, if masked, face of Islamic State, his alliterative, made-up name better known even than that of the movement’s leader.
  • (13) It began with Mona Hatoum creating large versions of everyday objects such as a julienne vegetable slicer, and has included Martin Creed getting people to run very fast through the galleries, Mark Wallinger recreating anti-war activist Brian Haw's Parliament Square protest, and Michael Landy replicating his parent's house.
  • (14) I have an icer-slicer and dicer and it doesn't dice or slice!"
  • (15) A mechanical slicer was used to make several precision-cut slices rapidly from an oriented cylindrical core of renal tissue, with minimal tissue trauma.
  • (16) A simple and inexpensive slicer has been developed for the preparation of slices of mouse or rat brain.
  • (17) On his return to California, he continued to use his camera as a means to express "the very substance and the quintessence of the thing itself", photographing in close-up what he saw around him: an egg-slicer, a toadstool, a cup, a gnarled tree.
  • (18) "In my BBC past, latterly as controller of Radio 4, I either presided over salami-slicing or was on the receiving end of the slicer.
  • (19) An original tube-slicer allows the separation of the d less than 1.006 lipoproteins located into top fractions.
  • (20) A simple and inexpensive modification of the Kopf model 900 small animal stereotaxic instrument allows it to be used temporarily as a precision polyacrylamide slab gel slicer.

Slider


Definition:

  • (a.) See Slidder.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
  • (n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To address whether temperature and estrogen are biologically equivalent, two experiments were conducted with the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta.
  • (2) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
  • (3) The righty deals to Descalso and strikes him out on six pitches - a slider.
  • (4) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
  • (5) 5.53pm GMT Just seven more sliders to slide in the men’s singles luge.
  • (6) Cell Slider Photograph: CRUK Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.
  • (7) Then Martinez is hit by a slider that barely grazes V-Mart putting him at first with two outs.
  • (8) Three patients (14%) showed evidence of fixator binding, and another four (18%) had less than predicted slider excursions.
  • (9) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
  • (10) Martinez throws a backdoor slider that goes to the very very back of Victorino!
  • (11) Jackson throws a nastier slider right in the dirt that makes Freese looks foolish.
  • (12) 1.56am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st Carlos Beltran is next, and he looks at strike three for the second out - a slider away.
  • (13) These are respectively a four jack system, a serrated wedge system, a spherical alignment system and a serrated slider.
  • (14) Jackson fouls off a slider that he probably would want back.
  • (15) But a large chunk of the £3.4m poured into the sport over four years goes on transporting the team around the world and technology to video the various tracks, which is then analysed and learned off by heart by the sliders.
  • (16) He's one of those CEOs who believes in rewarding his staff, who get £6.90 an hour (which buys you 30 Chicken Zingy Sliders and a tub of Reduced Fat Coleslaw), and seem to stay with the firm for years, which must mean something.
  • (17) The Rockies were completely stymied by the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, who had all of his pitches working on Wednesday – fastball, curveball, change up and a slider, one that finished the Rockies for the night and set off a celebration.
  • (18) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
  • (19) He finished off the big swinging team from Colorado with ease, Corey Dickerson no match for his final pitch, a slider he swung through for strike three.
  • (20) Coke throws a slider, but it's out of the zone and Belt didn't offer.

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