glide

glide is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The glede or kite. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The glede or kite.
2. intransitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To pass with a glide, as the voice.
4. noun. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
5. noun. 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).
6. noun. the activity of flying a glider

   Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring

7. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: coast, slide

8. noun. a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

   Synonyms: semivowel

9. verb. move smoothly and effortlessly
10. verb. cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
11. verb. fly in or as if in a glider plane

Synonyms

gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring, coast, slide, semivowel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in glide:

gelid

Common word forms

glided, glider, glides, gliding, glideless, glideness

Words from these letters

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