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Glide   /glaɪd/   Listen
Glide

noun
1.
A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant.  Synonym: semivowel.
2.
The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.  Synonyms: coast, slide.  "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"
3.
The activity of flying a glider.  Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring.
verb
(past & past part. glided; pres. part. gliding)
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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"Glide" Quotes from Famous Books



... world. But Reginald Maltravers contrived, in my case, to add to the usual brutalities a peculiar and personal touch. By bribery, as I believe, he succeeded in getting himself into the prison as a turnkey. It was his custom, when I lay weak and helpless in the semistupor of starvation, to glide into my cell and, standing by my couch, to recite to me the list of tempting viands that might appear daily upon the board of a ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis

... including its latest recruit, continued remote. Wilbur would happily observe his one-time brother, muffled in robes of fur, glide swiftly past in a sleigh of curved beauty, drawn by horses that showered music along the roadway from a hundred golden bells, but there were no direct encounters save with old Sharon Whipple. Sharon, even before winter came, had formed a habit of ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... into the stirrup he saw Harriet Floyd glide out of sight into the blacksmith's shop. She had determined not to desert him. As he sprang up, the girth snapped, and the saddle and blanket fell ...
— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben

... pull long, we pull strong, We pull keen and true. We sing to the king of the great black rocks, Through waters we glide ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston

... describe. A few cottages perched on the summit of projecting rocks, or sheltered in the bosom of a deeply indented bay, alone tell you of the presence of man. The evergreen oaks hang in such masses over the waves that the boatmen glide under their branches, and often sleep cradled in their arms. Such is the character of the coast on the Asiatic side as far as the castle of Mahomet II., which seems to shut it in as closely as any Swiss lake. Beyond that, the character changes; the hills are less rugged, and descend in gentler ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various


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