glide

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida.

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Verb [edit]

glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided, glid, or (archaic) glode, past participle glided, glid, glidden, or (archaic) glode)

  1. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
    • Wordsworth
      The river glideth at his own sweet will.
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
      The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
    • 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, BBC:
      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.
  2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
  3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
  4. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

Translations [edit]

To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly
To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft
To cause to glide

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Noun [edit]

glide (plural glides)

  1. The act of gliding.
  2. (linguistics) Semivowel
  3. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.

Translations [edit]

The act of gliding
Semivowel
(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement

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Noun [edit]

glide

  1. dative singular of glid
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