Definitions for glide

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Spelling: [glahyd]

IPA: /glaɪd/

Glide is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in glide (degil).

Definitions for glide

noun

1. a gliding movement, as in dancing.
2. a dance marked by such movements.
3. Music. slur (def 10a).
4. Phonetics. a speech sound having the characteristics of both a consonant and a vowel, especially w in wore and y in your, and, in some analyses, r in road and l in load; semivowel. a transitional sound heard during the articulation linking two phonemically contiguous sounds, as the y- sound often heard between the i and e of quiet.
5. a calm stretch of shallow, smoothly flowing water, as in a river.
6. an act or instance of gliding.
7. Metallurgy. slip1 (def 49).
8. a smooth metal plate, as on the bottom of the feet of a chair or table, to facilitate moving and to prevent scarring of floor surfaces.
9. a metal track in which a drawer, shelf, etc., moves in or out.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to glide.

verb (used without object)

1. to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance, as a flying bird, a boat, or a skater.
2. to pass by gradual or unobservable change (often followed by along, away, by, etc.).
3. to move quietly or stealthily or without being noticed (usually followed by in, out, along, etc.).
4. Aeronautics. to move in the air, especially at an easy angle downward, with less engine power than for level flight, solely by the action of air currents and gravity, or by momentum already acquired. to fly in a glider.
5. Music. to pass from one note to another without a break.

Origin of glide

before 900; Middle English gliden (v.), Old English glīdan; cognate with German gleiten

Examples for glide

Swiftly she came down to us, seeming almost to glide over the ground.

McAuliffe had been given a glide path to the nomination and had the active support of almost every Democratic elected official.

With the South Carolina GOP primary behind him, Sen. Lindsey Graham appears to be on a glide path to re-election.

I describe the pink hued iridescent bubbles in the bathtub, and the way they glide away from my skin as if it's made of silk.

He started to glide the window back up to get out of the car, and at once the officer began to beat his gun butt on the window.

Then he seemed to glide off in the direction of the setting sun.

Immigration reform is on a glide path out of the Senate, reports Michelle Cottle, but may yet crash in the House.

Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

He had but fifty yards to go, and started to glide stealthily from tuft to tuft.

The novice should not attempt a glide unless the conditions are just right.