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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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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.
The meaning of GLIDE is to move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly. How to use glide in a sentence.
To glide is to move smoothly along without effort, as in Ana loved the feeling of just gliding along the ice in her new ice skates. Glide means to move along water or air with little to no effort, as a boat might do in the water.
1. verb. If you glide somewhere, you move silently and in a smooth and effortless way. Waiters glide between tightly packed tables bearing trays of pasta. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: slip, sail, slide, ghost More Synonyms of glide. 2. verb. When birds or aeroplanes glide, they float on air currents.
GLIDE meaning: 1. to move easily without stopping and without effort or noise: 2. to move or progress without…. Learn more.
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.
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.
