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Glide

noun

A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant. Synonym: semivowel.

The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it. Synonyms: coast, slide. "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

The activity of flying a glider. Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring.

verb

(past & past part. glided; pres. part. gliding)

Move smoothly and effortlessly.

Fly in or as if in a glider plane.

Cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly.

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"Glide" Quotes from Famous Books

... weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch, that lies in woe, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the churchway paths to glide: ...

— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe

... as this will be used when the Utopians wish to travel fast and far; thereby you will glide all over the land surface of the planet; and feeding them and distributing from them, innumerable minor systems, clean little electric tramways I picture them, will spread out over the land in finer reticulations, ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... friends what the heap was. When they came closer, they could see that the long slimy bodies were all twisted together; and with an uncanny feeling, the sportsmen watched these serpents uncoil themselves from each other and glide away and disappear through ...

— Bengal Dacoits and Tigers • Maharanee Sunity Devee

... crown with all our flowers. Our kindest thanks to her whose smallest grace Is the bewitchment of her fair young face. Our own Kate Terry comes, to show how much The truest art does with the lightest touch. Make much of her while still before your eyes— A star may glide away to ...

— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt

... waters. And now even those who were without glasses could distinguish, here and there along that line of pale-blue land, a touch of yellowish-white; and they guessed that the new world there was already shining with the light of the new day. Brand felt a timid, small hand glide into his. Natalie was standing beside him, her beautiful black hair a trifle dishevelled, perhaps, and her eyes still bearing traces of her having been in the realm of dreams; but those eyes were full of tenderness, nevertheless, as she ...

— Sunrise • William Black

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