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What does glides mean?
Part of speech
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NounPlural: glides |
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| glide - the activity of flying a glider | ||
| gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing | ||
| flying, flight a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; "I took the noon flight to Chicago" | ||
| hang gliding gliding in a hang glider | ||
| glide - the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" | ||
| slide, coast | ||
| move, motion, movement the act of deciding to do something; "he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer" | ||
| sideslip, skid, slip an unexpected slide | ||
| glide - a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | ||
| semivowel | ||
| speech sound, phone, sound (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | ||
Verb |
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| glide - move smoothly and effortlessly | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| elapse, glide by, slide by, slip by, slip away, go along, go by, lapse, pass pass by; "three years elapsed" | ||
| slew, slue, slide, skid, slip move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the money over to the other gambler" | ||
| coast move effortlessly; by force of gravity | ||
| skitter twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | ||
| snake move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle" | ||
| skate move along on skates; "The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter" | ||
| plane, skim cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" | ||
| surfboard, surf ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; "Californians love to surf" | ||
| body-surf ride the crest of a wave without a surfboard | ||
| snowboard glide down a snow-covered slope while standing on a board; "The children love to snowboard in winter" | ||
| glide - fly in or as if in a glider plane | ||
| aviate, pilot, fly change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage" | ||
| air travel, aviation, air travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" | ||
| kite fly a kite; "Kids were kiting in the park"; "They kited the Red Dragon model" | ||
| sailplane, soar fly a plane without an engine | ||
| glide - cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | ||
| displace, move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- glide (Noun)
The act of gliding. - glide (Noun)
Semivowel. - glide (Noun)
An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. - glide (Verb)
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. - glide (Verb)
To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. - glide (Verb)
To cause to glide.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- glide (n.)
The glede or kite. - glide (v. i.)
To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. - glide (v. i.)
To pass with a glide, as the voice. - glide (n.)
The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction. - glide (n.)
A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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glide
To fly in or as if in a glider plane.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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glide
glīd, v.i. to slide smoothly and easily: to flow gently: to pass rapidly.—n. act of gliding: the joining of two sounds without a break: a smooth and sliding kind of waltz-step.—adj. Glid′dery, slippery.—n. Glīd′er, one who, or that which, glides.—adv. Glīd′ingly. [A.S. glídan, to slip; Ger. gleiten.]
