glide /glīd/

1. To slide smoothly and easily
2. To flow gently
3. To pass smoothly or stealthily
4. To travel through the air without expending power
5. To travel by glider

1. An act of gliding
2. A transitional sound produced in passing from one speech sound to another (phonetics)
3. A portamento (music)
4. A glance stroke (cricket)
5. A smooth and sliding dance step
6. An inclined plane or slide
7. A stretch of shallow gliding water

glīdˈer noun

1. Someone who, or that which, glides
2. An aircraft like an aeroplane without an engine (a powered glider has a small engine)
3. A hydroplane
4. A flying phalanger

glīdˈing noun

1. The action of the verb in any sense
2. The sport of flying in a glider

glīdˈingly adverb

glide slope or glide path noun

The slope along which aircraft are assumed to come in for landing, marked out eg by a radio beam

gliding plane noun (crystallography)

In minerals, a plane of molecular weakness along which movement can take place without actual fracture

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