glide

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: semivowelslidecoastglidingsailplaningsoaringsailing

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a vowellike sound that serves as a consonantSynonyms: semivowel
  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”Synonyms: slidecoast
  3. the activity of flying a gliderSynonyms: glidingsailplaningsoaringsailing

Verb (3)

  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
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]
Glide \Glide\, n. (Zool.) The glede or kite. [1913 Webster]
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.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

The river glideth at his own sweet will.— Wordsworth.[1913 Webster]

2.(Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice. [1913 Webster]

3.(A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Glide \Glide\, n.

1.The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction. [1913 Webster]

They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line.— Thomson.[1913 Webster]
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

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). [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.(A["e]ronautics) Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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