glide

Definitions

1. 1noun

   The glede or kite.

2. 2intransitive 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. 3intransitive verb

   To pass with a glide, as the voice.

4. 4noun

   The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

5. 5noun

   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. 6noun

   the activity of flying a glider

   Synonyms

   glidingsailingsailplaningsoaring
7. 7noun

   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

   coastslide
8. 8noun

   a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

   Synonyms

   semivowel
9. 9verb

   move smoothly and effortlessly

10. 10verb

    cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

11. 11verb

    fly in or as if in a glider plane