Definition of Glide. Meaning of Glide. Synonyms of Glide

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Definition of Glide

Glide
Glide Glide, n. (A["e]ronautics) Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.
Glide
Glide Glide, v. i. (A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.
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Glede Glede (gl[=e]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[eth]a, Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zo["o]l.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
Glide
Glide Glide, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided; p. pr. & vb. n. Gliding.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.] 1. 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. The river glideth at his own sweet will. --Wordsworth. 2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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Glide Glide, n. (Zo["o]l.) The glede or kite.

Meaning of Glide from wikipedia

- Look up glide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glide may refer to: Gliding flight, to fly without thrust Glide API, a 3D graphics interface Glide OS, a...
- A glide bomb or stand-off bomb is a standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional...
- In aviation, instrument landing system glide path, commonly referred to as a glide path (G/P) or glide slope (G/S), is "a system of vertical guidance...
- geometry, a glide reflection or transflection is a geometric transformation that consists of a reflection across a hyperplane and a translation ("glide") in...
- Glide is an instant video messaging platform for iOS, Android, and Windows mobile devices. The app enables a user to live stream broadcast brief video...
- Glide is a 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. It started as a proprietary API, and was later...
- Glide Foundation is a charity organization that helps the homeless, based in San Francisco, California, ****ociated with devout Methodist Lizzie Glide...
- The Glide may refer to: Clyde Drexler, an American basketball player A move commonly used in card magic This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated...
- previously known as Objekt 4202, Yu-71 and Yu-74) is a Russian hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). It can be carried as a multiple independently targetable...
- and transcription delimiters. In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound...