Glide
[glaɪd] or [ɡlaɪd]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Rhoda--From WordNet
Definition
(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).
Editor: Tess
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Slip, slide, move smoothly.[2]. Flow, lapse, run, roll on.
n. Lapse, slip, continuous motion.
Typist: Montague
Definition
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.
Editor: William
Examples
- Now, having caught these words, and hearing him advance, Caroline, if there was a door within the dining-room, would glide through it and disappear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wild terror of the sky above, Glide tamed and dumb below! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Today the years glide by like pleasant pictures. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this exercise the afternoon passed: day began to glide into eveningand I, who had eaten nothing since breakfast, grew excessively hungry. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A moment more and both shoulders through, the long, sinuous body and the narrow hips would glide quickly after. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She could do nothing but glide in quietly and look at him; but when able to talk or be talked to, or read to, Edmund was the companion he preferred. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I am afraid I study the gondolier's marvelous skill more than I do the sculptured palaces we glide among. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This moment was one of intense interest, the huge bulk gliding as gently and easily forward as if she had been but a small boat. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And I cannot get there in less than an hour or more,' muttered Nancy: brushing swiftly past him, and gliding rapidly down the street. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They calculated that their gliding-machine, with 165 square feet of surface, should be held up by a wind blowing twenty-one miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But not without a certain uncomfortable sensation gliding down his back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Somebody came gliding along the gallery just above; it was the old prieSt. Indeed Mademoiselle shall not sit there, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was no sound, and he glided into the semi-darkness of the interior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- How closely she glided against the banisters! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She murmured a reply, glided by them, and turned round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then she went up the ladder, lamp in hand, and came down again, and glided about and about, making a little bundle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He glided in, in his stockings, and held the door closed, while he spoke in a whisper. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Tom looked at the child with awe; and when she, hearing her father's voice, glided away, he wiped his eyes many times, as he looked after her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No; moonlight was still, and this stirred; while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and quivered over my head. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A ghostly shade, frilled and night-capped, follows the law-stationer to the room he came from and glides higher up. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Bucket sits out the procession in his own easy manner and glides from the carriage when the opportunity he has settled with himself arrives. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The men--see the poor, shabby fellows--pull off their hats to her quite politely, and now she glides in at that doorway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The platform glides through the prongs of a comb at the lower level and journeys upward at a moderate speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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