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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.
glideGlede 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.] GlideGlide 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. Glide
Glide Glide, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The glede or kite.
Meaning of glide from wikipedia
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Glide may
refer to:
Gliding flight, to fly
without thrust Glide API, a 3D
graphics interface Glide OS, a...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- geometry, a
glide reflection or
transflection is a
geometric transformation that
consists of a
reflection across a
hyperplane and a
translation ("
glide") in...
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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...
- This was an
Electra Glide based on the FLT Tour
Glide frame, but
using the
Electra Glide "batwing"
fairing instead of the Tour
Glide frame-mounted fairing...
- and
transcription delimiters. In
phonetics and phonology, a semivowel,
glide or
semiconsonant is a
sound that is
phonetically similar to a
vowel sound...
