Glides can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1. | verb | When the morning's first streetcar announces its arrival and glides smoothly up to the stop, there are many already standing and waiting there. | |
| 2. | verb | "Seas remain / to plough, long years of exile must be thine, / ere thou at length Hesperia's land shalt gain, / where Lydian Tiber glides through many a peopled plain." | |
| 3. | verb | Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens. | |
| 4. | verb | A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings. | |
| 5. | 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. | |
| 6. | verb | Tom watched the skaters glide across the ice. | |
| 7. | 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. | |
| 8. | 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. | |
| 9. | 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. | |
| 10. | 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. | |
| 11. | verb | The clouds drift round, and they glide by, surrounded by light and the blue sky. | |
| 12. | verb | Whether you're working hard or playing video games, it's important to have your mouse glide easily over a mousepad. | |
| 13. | verb | Ice skaters gracefully glide over the ice. | |
| 14. | verb | She watched the nib of her pen glide around the surface of the page, an inky line trailing behind it. | |
| 15. | verb | A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings. |
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| verb | |
| When the morning's first streetcar announces its arrival and glides smoothly up to the stop, there are many already standing and waiting there. | |
| "Seas remain / to plough, long years of exile must be thine, / ere thou at length Hesperia's land shalt gain, / where Lydian Tiber glides through many a peopled plain." | |
| Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens. | |
| 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. | |
| A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings. | |