"glide" Definition

Definitions for the word "glide" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The glede or kite.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To pass with a glide, as the voice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
(-ding) 1 move smoothly and continuously. 2 (of an aircraft or pilot) fly without engine-power. 3 pass gradually or imperceptibly. 4 go stealthily. 5 cause to glide. n. Gliding movement. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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