Definitions of glide [ɪd]

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Definition of 'glide'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) glide
to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance.

2.  glide
to pass by gradual or unobservable change (often fol. by along, away, by, etc.).

3.  glide
to move quietly or without being noticed (usu. fol. by in, out, along, etc.).

4.  glide
to move in the air, esp. at an easy angle downward, with little or no engine power.

5.  glide
to fly in a glider.

6.  glide
to produce a glide sound.

7. (v.t.) glide
to cause to glide.

8. (n.) glide
a gliding movement, as in dancing.

9.  glide
a transitional sound heard during the articulation linking two contiguous speech sounds, as the y-sound often heard between the i and e of
quiet.

10.  glide
a speech sound having the characteristics of both a consonant and a vowel; semivowel.

11.  glide
an act or instance of gliding.

12.  glide
a calm stretch of shallow, smoothly flowing water.

13.  glide
a metal plate or plastic disk attached to the bottom of a furniture leg to facilitate moving and protect floors.

14.  glide
a metal track in which a drawer, shelf, etc., moves in or out.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE glīdan, c. OS glīdan, OHG glītan)

Definition of 'glide'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) semivowel, glide
a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

2. (noun) slide, glide, coast
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
"his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

3. (verb) glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing
the activity of flying a glider

4. (verb) glide
move smoothly and effortlessly

5. (verb) glide
fly in or as if in a glider plane

6. (verb) glide
cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

Definition of 'glide'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) glide
to move smoothly and quietly
ducks gliding down the stream

2. glide
to fly through the air using only air currents
a hawk gliding overhead

Definition of 'glide'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) glide
the glede or kite

2. (noun) glide
the act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction

3. (noun) glide
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)

4. (verb) glide
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

5. (verb) glide
to pass with a glide, as the voice

Translation of 'glide'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to move smoothly and easily The dancers glided across the floor.
Afrikaans: sweef, gly	Arabic: يَنْزَلِق، يَتَحَرَّك بان	Bulgarian: плъзгам се
Brazilian: deslizar	Czech: klouzat	German: gleiten
Danish: glide; svæve	Greek: γλιστρώ	Spanish: deslizar(se)
Estonian: liuglema	Farsi: به نرمی حرکت کردن؛ سر خور	Finnish: lipua
French: (faire) glisser	Hebrew: לרחף	Hindi: विसर्पण करना
Croatian: kliziti	Hungarian: (el)suhan	Indonesian: meluncur
Icelandic: svífa	Italian: scivolare	Japanese: すべる
Korean: 미끄러지듯이 움직이다	Lithuanian: slysti,šliuožti	Latvian: slīdēt
Malay: meluncur	Dutch: glijden	Norwegian: gli, sveve
Polish: płynąć	Persian: به نرمی حرکت کردن؛ سر خور	Pashto: ښوهېدل، (اصط) دالو تكى سو
Portuguese: deslizar	Romanian: a aluneca	Russian: скользить
Slovak: kĺzať	Slovenian: drseti	Serbian: kliziti
Swedish: glida, sväva	Thai: แล่น; ร่อน; เลื้อย; เคลื่	Turkish: kaymak, süzülmek
Taiwanese: 滑動	Ukrainian: рухатися плавно	Urdu: روانی سے حرکت کرنا
Vietnamese: lướt; trượt	Chinese: 滑动
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