What part of speech is glide?

Glide can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. glide is a verb, present, 1st person singular of glide (infinitive).
  • 2. glide is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. glide is a noun, singular of glides.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does glide mean?

Definitions

Verb

glide - move smoothly and effortlessly
glide - fly in or as if in a glider plane
glide - cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

Noun

glide - the activity of flying a 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"
glide - a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

Examples of glide

#   Sentence  
1. verb A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings.
2. verb All in the golden afternoon / Full leisurely we glide; / For both our oars, with little skill, / By little arms are plied, / While little hands make vain pretence / Our wanderings to guide.
3. verb Tom watched the skaters glide across the ice.
4. verb Pale at the sight we fly; unswerving, these / glide on and seek Laocoon. First, entwined / in stringent folds, his two young sons they seize, / with cruel fangs their tortured limbs to grind.
5. verb But lo! the serpents to Tritonia's seat / glide from their victim, till the shrine they gain, / and, coiled beside the goddess, at her feet, / behind her sheltering shield with gathered orbs retreat.
6. verb We mark the dazzling meteor in its flight / glide o'er the roof, till, vanished from our eyes, / it hides in Ida's forest, shining bright / and furrowing out a pathway through the skies, / and round us far and wide the sulphurous fumes arise.
7. verb She could see the moon and the stars. When she saw a dark shadow glide between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming above her, or else a ship laden with human beings.
8. verb The clouds drift round, and they glide by, surrounded by light and the blue sky.
9. verb Whether you're working hard or playing video games, it's important to have your mouse glide easily over a mousepad.
10. verb Ice skaters gracefully glide over the ice.
11. verb She watched the nib of her pen glide around the surface of the page, an inky line trailing behind it.
Sentence  
verb
A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings.
All in the golden afternoon / Full leisurely we glide; / For both our oars, with little skill, / By little arms are plied, / While little hands make vain pretence / Our wanderings to guide.
Tom watched the skaters glide across the ice.
Pale at the sight we fly; unswerving, these / glide on and seek Laocoon. First, entwined / in stringent folds, his two young sons they seize, / with cruel fangs their tortured limbs to grind.
But lo! the serpents to Tritonia's seat / glide from their victim, till the shrine they gain, / and, coiled beside the goddess, at her feet, / behind her sheltering shield with gathered orbs retreat.
We mark the dazzling meteor in its flight / glide o'er the roof, till, vanished from our eyes, / it hides in Ida's forest, shining bright / and furrowing out a pathway through the skies, / and round us far and wide the sulphurous fumes arise.
She could see the moon and the stars. When she saw a dark shadow glide between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming above her, or else a ship laden with human beings.
The clouds drift round, and they glide by, surrounded by light and the blue sky.
Whether you're working hard or playing video games, it's important to have your mouse glide easily over a mousepad.
Ice skaters gracefully glide over the ice.
She watched the nib of her pen glide around the surface of the page, an inky line trailing behind it.

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