[
UK
/ɡlˈaɪd/
]
[ US /ˈɡɫaɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫaɪd/ ]
VERB
- move smoothly and effortlessly
- cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
- fly in or as if in a glider plane
NOUN
- a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
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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 - the activity of flying a glider
How To Use glide In A Sentence
- The pilot shut off the motors and glided down to the landing field.
- Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
- At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
- Ten of us broke the ice across the harbour with our feet and glided our boats out into the liquid waters beyond.
- It's very matt but glides on easily. Times, Sunday Times
- Music leaked softly from the windows behind him, when he'd resumed his seat on the glider.
- Other rules would account for glide insertion and consonant sharing.
- Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
- She glides to the podium, perfect in every way, from the toes of her green pearlized kid shoes, to the elegant full length Thai silk ceremonial vest, to the top of her jade tiara. Over herez… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Despite his own aircraft being damaged, he glided back to base with a dead engine and crash-landed near Folkstone.
