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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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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.
Jun 2, 2024 · glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode) ( intransitive ) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
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Mar 9, 2019 · Glides (or "semivowels") are sounds that are not phonetically dissimilar from vowels but behave like consonants—that is, they cannot constitute the nucleus (peak) of a syllable.
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.
Glide noun. the glede or kite. Glide verb. to move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. Glide verb. to pass with a glide, as the voice. Glide noun
A glide reflection is the composition of a reflection across a line and a translation parallel to the line. This footprint trail has glide-reflection symmetry. Applying the glide reflection maps each left footprint into a right footprint and vice versa.
