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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



... rudder up, and glide downward as slowly as you can!" directed Mr. Sharp. "I'll start the engine again as soon as I rescue him," for it was risky to venture out on the platform with the propeller whirring, as the dangling piece of scarf might ...
— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton
... of Foxville, intent on his bobbing cork, looked up in mild surprise to see a canoe, heavily hung with water-lilies, glide into his pool and ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers
... all the others leaped with one glide into the sea. The floe rocked, the water churned like a boiling cauldron. In a few minutes Ootah had despatched the beast. Standing erect, he gazed in defiance at the clouds, at the distant gulls. He forgot the ...
— The Eternal Maiden • T. Everett Harre
... beneath. No one heard or heeded a low wailing cry from the prisoner in the cabin. She knew what had happened. She flung the small port hole open as Jim fell and the water from the impact splashed into her face. Then to her unspeakable relief she saw a black boat glide to where the figure came up, and she saw that he was in ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... were astonished at these novel manoeuvres upon the ice. It is amusing to read their elaborate descriptions of the wonderful appendages which had enabled the Hollanders to glide so glibly into battle with a superior force, and so rapidly to glance away, after achieving a signal triumph. Nevertheless, the Spaniards could never be dismayed, and were always apt scholars, even if an enemy were the ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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