glide

Speech parts

1. glide - Noun

2. glide - Verb

3. Glide - Proper noun

Meaning

The glede or kite.

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.

To pass with a glide, as the voice.

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

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).

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slide coast slip pass sail sailing drift float sweep skate gliding soaring skim waft semivowel
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Antonyms

wade rove screech flog shamble cast
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Hypernyms

move movement sound pilot fly flight

Hyponyms

coast plane slip snake slide kite

Phrases with the word

glide across snow air glide glide consonant hypersonic glide vehicle glide direction landing glide slope

Derivatives

glided gliding

Anagrams

gelid lidge

Examples

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! Bryan Procter

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. Giacomo Casanova

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Samuel Johnson

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide. William Blake

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it. David Lange

Thus years glide by. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

glidder gliddery Gliddon glide across snow glide along glide angle