glide
7 definitions found
glide - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Glede \Glede\ (gl[=e]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[eth]a,
Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zool.)
The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is
also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead,
gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
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Glide \Glide\, n.
1. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without
labor or obstruction.
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They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts,
With rapid glide, along the leaning line. --Thomson.
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Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
And with indented glides did slip away. --Shak.
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2. (Phon.) 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, [sect][sect] 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, [sect][sect] 18,
97, 191).
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Note: The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade
in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing
from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as
initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For
voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]
17, 95.
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3. (A["e]ronautics) Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc.,
through the air under gravity or its own movement.
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Glide \Glide\, n. (Zool.)
The glede or kite.
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Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gliding.] [AS. gl[imac]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG.
gl[imac]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to
E. glad.]
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1. 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.
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The river glideth at his own sweet will.
--Wordsworth.
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2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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3. (A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of
gravity or momentum; to volplane.
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glide - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
glide
n 1: a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant [syn:
semivowel, glide]
2: 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" [syn: slide, glide, coast]
3: the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding,
sailplaning, soaring, sailing]
v 1: move smoothly and effortlessly
2: fly in or as if in a glider plane
3: cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
glide - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Glide, OR
Zip code(s): 97443
glide - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
255 Moby Thesaurus words for "glide":
accented, acrobatics, advance, aerobatics, aeroplane, airlift,
airplane, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
assimilation, avalanche, back, balloon, banking, barytone,
be airborne, be effortless, be painless, bilabial, broad,
cacuminal, central, cerebral, chandelle, check, checked, close,
coast, coasting, consonant, consonantal, continuant, continue,
crabbing, creep, cruise, dental, diphthong, dissimilated,
dissimilation, dive, diving, dorsal, drift, elapse, endure,
epenthetic vowel, expire, explosive, ferry, fishtailing, flat,
flit, float, flow, flow on, flowing, fly, foot, front, ghost,
give no trouble, gliding, glissade, glissando, glossal, glottal,
glottalization, go by, go easily, go like clockwork, go on,
gumshoe, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hop, hover, hydroplane,
ice-skate, intonated, jet, labial, labialization, labiodental,
labiovelar, landslide, landslip, lapse, laryngeal, last, lateral,
lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid,
modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mouse,
mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, navigate, nose dive,
occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel,
pass, pass by, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized,
phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched,
plosive, plow the deep, posttonic, power dive,
present no difficulties, press on, proceed, prothetic vowel,
pull-up, pullout, pushdown, pussyfoot, retroflex, ride,
ride the sea, roll, roll on, roller-skate, rolling, rounded, run,
run its course, run on, run out, run smoothly, sail, sailing,
sailplane, scud, seaplane, segmental phoneme, semivowel, shoot,
sideslip, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim,
skulk, sled, sledding, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide, slide down,
sliding, slink, slip, slippage, slipping, slither, slithering,
snake, sneak, snowslide, snowslip, soar, soft, sonant, sonority,
speech sound, spiral, stall, steal, stop, stopped, stream,
stressed, strong, stunting, subsidence, surd, sweep, sweeping,
syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable,
tactical maneuvers, take the air, take wing, tense, thick, throaty,
toboggan, tobogganing, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong,
twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic,
vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound,
voicing, volplane, vowel, vowellike, walk the waters, weak, wide,
wing, work well, zoom
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