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Meaning glide meaning

What does glide mean?
Definitions in simple English

glide Verb

— To glide is to move without making an effort. He glided over the dance-floor. — To glide is to float in the air gradually downwards. When a bird glides, it goes forwards and downward without flapping its wings. — To glide is to fly in a glider or an aircraft without an engine. After losing power, the pilot was able to glide his aircraft to land.

glide

— verb move smoothly and effortlessly — verb cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly — verb fly in or as if in a glider plane — noun the activity of flying a glider — noun (= slide, coast) 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 — noun (= semivowel) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

Synonyms glide synonyms

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glide English » English

slide slip soar float semivowel sail gliding fly drift coast slither skim skate creep trickle sweep soaring slide down sailplaning bob volplane sway sneak slip down skitter skid scud sailing run plane pass move slowly move gently move let something slip hover glissade writhe wriggle travel by air tiptoe swagger submarine strut stroll slue slip off slip along skim over roller skate

Topics glide topics

What do people use glide to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

  • What words refer to continuing to move without trying to speed up or slow down?
    coast glide float
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk with difficulty

Slip, slide

Conjugation glide conjugation

How do you conjugate glide?

glide · verb

Examples glide examples

How do I use glide in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings.
Tom watched the skaters glide across the ice.

Movie subtitles

Suppose, like a film, it could retain the images that glide so secretly through your brain.
I'll bring it around and glide in.
I can glide to the water if I can clear the ridge.
Now, since we're pretty far up, we'll start with a glide.
Glide and listen.
Are you telling me to glide at 200 feet?
As the dancers glide through the quicksand, the chorus swells triumphantly.
The Electra Glide goes, my police motor goes, my badge goes, my gun goes, my uniform.
You going to glide around here for the rest of your life without trying?
You'll make a glide.
Cut the ATC just before the junction, and let your train glide on.
Now, I'm going to just go in here and we're just gonna guide, and glide it through.
Raphael's Glide Inn.
No one will know it is me. as I glide through the underworld like a shadow.
Just glide along like you were rippling over water. Oh! Oh!
Relentlessly the prayer beads glide through the fingers of the devoted.
Now start to glide, and don't touch anything till we get down to 15,000.
When electrons glide across your screen, bringing some new and unforeseen brand of murder.
That's how we live- by shutting off the world, turning our backs on it, while you soundless, fleshless things glide around here and, with your efficient ministrations, turn my father and my mother into jelly.
Turn left, heading 3-0-1. 'Returning to glide path.
Course good. 'Slightly low on glide path.
Somewhere within this maze of tunnels a new river will crest, along which we will glide, through gates which will be revealed to us, Vulnavia.
Watching the beautiful people glide in and out like they owned the world.
You'll see shooting stars glide into this world of light like shining balls in the nocturnal tennis of the abyss!
Is just to glide as if you're hunted?
The train glide,s up in the air flies over the river and lands right on the rails.
And only my shadow will glide over you.
How marvelous it would be to glide over the surface of Mars to fly over Olympus Mons the largest known volcano in the solar system.
You mustn't glide down this.
Now on glide path.
I can spot them from miles away, as they glide across the river.
You're well below glide path.
You're in the glide path and looking good.
You put them on your feet. to skate. to glide-- sort of dance on ice. - Yeah.
You're locked onto the glide scope.
Interested in a cherry '68 Electra Glide?

News and current affairs

One day they found an ancient reptile with long ribs that enabled it to glide between trees.

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