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Glide

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Noun

1. glide, semivowel

a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

2. coast, glide, slide

the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

Example Sentences:
'his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill'
'the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope'

3. glide, gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring

the activity of flying a glider

Verb

4. glide

move smoothly and effortlessly

5. glide

fly in or as if in a glider plane

6. glide

cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Glide

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verb
1. 
to move or cause to move easily without jerks or hesitations
to glide in a boat down the river
2. (intransitive)
to pass slowly or without perceptible change
to glide into sleep
3. 
to cause (an aircraft) to come into land without engine power, or (of an aircraft) to land in this way
4. (intransitive)
to fly a glider
5. (intransitive) music
to execute a portamento from one note to another
6. (intransitive) phonetics
to produce a glide
noun
7. 
a smooth easy movement
8. 
a. 
any of various dances featuring gliding steps
b. 
a step in such a dance
9. 
a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a gentle descent without engine power
See also glidepath
10. 
the act or process of gliding
11. music
a. 
a long portion of tubing slipped in and out of a trombone to increase its length for the production of lower harmonic series
See also valve (sense 5)
b. 
a portamento or slur
12. phonetics
a. 
a transitional sound as the speech organs pass from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of the next, as the (w) sound in some pronunciations of the word doing
b.  another word for semivowel
13. crystallography another name for slip1 (sense 33)
14. cricket another word for glance1 (sense 11)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Glide

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verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈglided or ˈgliding
1. 
to flow or move smoothly and easily, as in skating
2. 
to move by or pass gradually and almost unnoticed, as time
3.  Aeronautics
a. 
to fly in a glider
b. 
to descend with little or no engine power, using airflow to control lift
4.  Music and Phonetics
to make a glide
verb transitive
5. 
to cause to glide
noun
6. 
the act of gliding; smooth, easy flow or movement
7.  US
a small disk or ball, as of nylon, attached to the underside of furniture legs, etc. to allow easy sliding
8.  Music; Loosely
a slur, portamento, or the like
9.  Phonetics
a. 
an intermediate sound produced in the transition of the speech organs from the position for one sound to that for another
b. 
the nonsyllabic vowel in a diphthong
see also off-glide, on-glide

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Glide

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v. glid·ed, glid·ing, glides
v.intr.
1. To move in a smooth, effortless manner: a submarine gliding through the water. See Synonyms at slide.
2. To move silently and furtively: The thief glided across the room.
3. To occur or pass imperceptibly: The autumn days glided by.
4. To fly without propulsion from wings or an engine.
5. Music To blend one tone into the next; slur.
6. Linguistics To articulate a glide in speech.
v.tr.
1. To cause to move or pass smoothly, silently, or imperceptibly: glided the key into the lock.
2. To operate or fly (an aircraft) without propulsion from wings or an engine: She glided the paraglider over the trees.
n.
1. The act of gliding.
2. Music A slur.
3. Linguistics
a. The transitional sound produced by passing from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of another.
b. See semivowel.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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