glide /glīd/ intransitive verb- To slide smoothly and easily
- To flow gently
- To pass smoothly or stealthily
- To travel through the air without expending power
- To travel by glider
noun- An act of gliding
- A transitional sound produced in passing from one speech sound to another (phonetics)
- A portamento (music)
- A glance stroke (cricket)
- A smooth and sliding dance step
- An inclined plane or slide
- A stretch of shallow gliding water
ORIGIN: OE glīdan to slip; Ger gleiten glīdˈer noun - Someone who, or that which, glides
- An aircraft like an aeroplane without an engine (a powered glider has a small engine)
- A hydroplane
- A flying phalanger
glīdˈing noun - The action of the verb in any sense
- 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 |