glide (ɡlaɪd
)
Definitions
verb
- to move or cause to move easily without jerks or hesitations ⇒
to glide in a boat down the river
- (intr) to pass slowly or without perceptible change ⇒
to glide into sleep
- to cause (an aircraft) to come into land without engine power, or (of an aircraft) to land in this way
- (intr) to fly a glider
- (intr) music to execute a portamento from one note to another
- (intr) phonetics to produce a glide
noun
- a smooth easy movement
- any of various dances featuring gliding steps
- a step in such a dance
- a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a gentle descent without engine power See also glide path
- the act or process of gliding
- music
- a long portion of tubing slipped in and out of a trombone to increase its length for the production of lower harmonic series See also valve (sense 5)
- a portamento or slur
- phonetics
- a transitional sound as the speech organs pass from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of the next, as the () sound in some pronunciations of the word a transitional sound as the speech organs pass from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of the next, as the () sound in some pronunciations of the word doing
- another word for semivowel
- crystallography another name for slip1 (sense 33)
- cricket another word for glance1 (sense 11)
Alternative Forms
ˈglidingly adverb Word Origin
Old English glīdan; related to Old High German glītan
