glide

See also: Glide

English

Etymology

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.

Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

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)

1. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
   • 1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC:

     The river glideth at his own sweet will:

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 137:

     It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI:

     The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.

   • 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC‎:

     But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.

2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

     The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
4. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

Synonyms

• (to move effortlessly): coast, slide

Translations

To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly

Armenian: սահել (hy) (sahel) Bulgarian: плъзгам се (plǎzgam se), нося се леко (nosja se leko) Catalan: lliscar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 滑动 (zh) (huádòng), 滑行 (zh) (huáxíng) Czech: klouzat impf, klouzat se impf Danish: glide Dutch: glijden (nl) Finnish: liitää (fi), lipua (fi), liukua (fi) French: glisser (fr) German: gleiten (de) Italian: scivolare (it), slittare (it), scorrere (it), muoversi con fluidità Latin: lābor (la) Macedonian: лизга (lizga) Maori: naki, wani, rōnaki, whātino, tuanaki Middle English: gliden Old English: glidan Portuguese: deslizar (pt) Romanian: glisa (ro), aluneca (ro) Russian: скользи́ть (ru) impf (skolʹzítʹ) Slovak: kĺzať (sa) impf Spanish: deslizar (es) Swedish: glida (sv)

To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft

Bulgarian: планирам (bg) (planiram) Catalan: planar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 滑翔 (zh) (huáxiáng) Danish: svæve (da) Dutch: zweven (nl) Esperanto: gliti (eo) Finnish: liitää (fi) French: planer (fr) Galician: planar (gl) German: gleiten (de) Hebrew: דָּאָה (he) (daá) Italian: planare (it), librarsi (in aria) Japanese: 滑空する (ja) (かっくうする, kakkū suru) Maori: tauihi, rereangi Portuguese: planar (pt) Quechua: awankay Russian: плани́ровать (ru) impf (planírovatʹ) Sanskrit: ध्रजति (sa) (dhrajati) Slovak: plachtiť impf Spanish: planear (es) Swedish: glidflyga (sv) Thai: ร่อน (th) (rɔ̂n) Turkish: süzülmek (tr) Vietnamese: lướt (vi), lượn (vi), liệng (vi)

To cause to glide

Finnish: liu’uttaa German: gleiten lassen Macedonian: слизнува (sliznuva) Slovak: kĺzať impf

(phonology) To become a glide; to become non-syllabic/non-nuclear

Spanish: deslizarse

Noun

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glide (plural glides)

1. The act of gliding.
2. (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.

   Synonyms: semivowel, semiconsonant

3. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
4. A bird, the glede or kite.
5. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.

   Hyponym: bell glide

6. The joining of two sounds without a break.
7. A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.

Derived terms

Derived from noun or verb

• boostglide
• downglide
• glidant
• glide bomb
• glideless
• glideosome
• glide pad
• glide path
• glider
• glide ratio
• glide reflection
• glide slope
• glideslope
• glide time
• gliding
• gliding vowel
• glip
• handglide
• hang glide
• hang-glide
• midglide
• offglide, off-glide
• onglide, on-glide
• outglide
• overglide
• paraglide
• upglide
• voice glide

Translations

The act of gliding

Bulgarian: плъзгане n (plǎzgane) Czech: skluz (cs) m, klouzání n, sklouznutí n Danish: glide Finnish: liitäminen (fi), liito (fi) Indonesian: luncuran Japanese: 滑空 (ja) (かっくう, kakkū) Macedonian: лизгање n (lizganje) Malay: geluncuran Romanian: glisare (ro) f, alunecare (ro) f, glisaj n Russian: скольже́ние (ru) n (skolʹžénije), плани́рование (ru) n (planírovanije) (of an aircraft) Slovak: sklz m, kľzanie n, skĺznutie n

(phonology) Non-nuclear sound

Spanish: deslizada f, deslizante f

semivowel — see semivowel

(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement

Bulgarian: гмуркане n (gmurkane)

Anagrams

• gelid, lidge, liged

Middle English

Noun

glide

1. alternative form of glede (“kite (bird of prey)”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• glida (a infinitive)
• gli (short form)

Etymology

From Middle Low German gliden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɡliːə/

Verb

glide (present tense glid, past tense gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)

1. to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)

   Han gleid på isen.

   He slipped on the ice.

2. to glide (to move effortlessly)

   Skia glid godt.

   The skis glide well.

References

• “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡliː.de/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡli.de/

Verb

glīde

1. inflection of glīdan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

glide

1. inflection of glīdan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive

Volapük

Noun

glide

1. dative singular of glid

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian glīda, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlidə/, /ˈɡliːdə/

Verb

glide

1. to glide, to slide

Inflection

Strong class 1
infinitive	glide
3rd singular past	glied
past participle	gliden
infinitive	glide
long infinitive	gliden
gerund	gliden n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	glyd	glied
2nd singular	glydst	gliedst
clitic form	glydsto	gliedsto
3rd singular	glydt	glied
plural	glide	glieden
imperative	glyd
participles	glidend	gliden

Further reading

• “glide”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011