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- Dictionaryglide/ɡlʌɪd/
verb
- 1. move with a smooth, quiet continuous motion: "a few gondolas glided past" Similar Opposite
- 2. make an unpowered flight, either in a glider or in an aircraft with engine failure: "students learning to glide"
noun
- 1. a gliding movement: "the cuckoo makes its approach in a hawklike glide"
- 2. a sound produced as the vocal organs move towards or away from articulation of a vowel or consonant, for example /j/ in duke /djuːk/.
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GLIDE definition: 1. to move easily without stopping and without effort or noise: 2. to move or progress without…. Learn more.
to move easily without stopping and without effort or noise: She came gliding gracefully into the ballroom in a long, flowing gown. I love my new pen - it just glides across /over the paper. [ I usually + adv/prep ] to move or progress without difficulty or effort: Some people glide effortlessly through life with no real worries.
noun. 1. : a calm stretch of shallow water flowing smoothly. 2. : the act or action of gliding. 3. : portamento.
to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance, as a flying bird, a boat, or a skater. 2. (often fol. by along, away, by, etc.) to pass by gradual or unobservable change. 3. (usually fol. by in, out, along, etc.)
To glide is to sail or skate with ease across a surface. Your favorite thing about winter might be watching the skaters in the park glide silently on the ice-covered lake.
Glide definition: to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance, as a flying bird, a boat, or a skater.. See examples of GLIDE used in a sentence.
n. 1. The act of gliding. 2. Music A slur. 3. Linguistics. a. The transitional sound produced by passing from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of another. b. See semivowel. [Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
to move somewhere smoothly and quietly: The train slowly glided out of the station. (Definition of glide from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of glide. in Chinese (Traditional) 移動, 滑行，滑動, 輕鬆行進… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 移动, 滑行，滑动, 轻松行进… See more. in Spanish.
glide meaning, definition, what is glide: to move smoothly and quietly, as if with...: Learn more.
Noun. Filter. verb. glided, glides, gliding. To flow or move smoothly and easily, as in skating. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To cause to glide. Webster's New World. To move silently and furtively. The thief glided across the room. American Heritage. To occur or pass imperceptibly. The autumn days glided by. American Heritage.
