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noun

Glide n. (Zool.) The glede or kite.

Glide n.

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction. "They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line." "Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away."

(Phon.) 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. 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. Note: The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides.

(Aeronautics) Movement of a glider, aeroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.

verb

Glide v. i. (past & past part. glided; pres. part. gliding)

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. "The river glideth at his own sweet will."

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

(Aeronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.

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Etymology of 'Glide'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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