Definition of "glide"

glide

/ˈɡlaɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode
1. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
  Quotations
  The river glideth at his own sweet will:
  1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […]
  It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 137
  The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
  1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI
  But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.
  2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC‎
2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
  Quotations
  The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
  1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8
3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
4. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
noun
plural glides
1. The act of gliding.
2. (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
3. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
4. A bird, the glede or kite.
5. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.
6. The joining of two sounds without a break.
7. A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.

Definition of "glide"

glide

verb

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noun