Glide

[glaɪd] or [ɡlaɪd]

解释:

(noun.) the activity of flying a glider.

(verb.) move smoothly and effortlessly.

(verb.) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly.

(verb.) fly in or as if in a glider plane.

编辑:罗达--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The glede or kite.

(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.

(v. i.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

(n.) The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

(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).

整理:泰丝

同义词及近义词：

v. n. [1]. Slip, slide, move smoothly.[2]. Flow, lapse, run, roll on.

n. Lapse, slip, continuous motion.

手打:蒙塔古

解释:

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.

整理:威廉