Glide

Verb
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 * 1)  To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
 * 2) *1874,, 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.
 * 1)  To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
 * 2)  To cause to glide.
 * 1)  To cause to glide.

Noun

 * 1) The act of gliding.
 * 2)  Semivowel
 * 3)  An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.

Adverbs for Glide
smoothly; gracefully; unobtrusively; serenely;  majestically;   sinuously;  noiselessly; dreamily.

Thesaurus
accented, acrobatics, advance, aerobatics, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, avalanche, back, balloon, banking, barytone, be airborne, be effortless, be painless, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, chandelle, check, checked, close, coast, coasting, consonant, consonantal, continuant, continue, crabbing, creep, cruise, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dive, diving, dorsal, drift, elapse, endure, epenthetic vowel, expire, explosive, ferry, fishtailing, flat, flit, float, flow, flow on, flowing, fly, foot, front, ghost, give no trouble, gliding, glissade, glissando, glossal, glottal, glottalization, go by, go easily, go like clockwork, go on, gumshoe, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hop, hover, hydroplane, ice-skate, intonated, jet, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, landslide, landslip, lapse, laryngeal, last, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mouse, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, navigate, nose dive, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, pass, pass by, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, plow the deep, posttonic, power dive, present no difficulties, press on, proceed, prothetic vowel, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, pussyfoot, retroflex, ride, ride the sea, roll, roll on, roller-skate, rolling, rounded, run, run its course, run on, run out, run smoothly, sail, sailing, sailplane, scud, seaplane, segmental phoneme, semivowel, shoot, sideslip, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skulk, sled, sledding, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide, slide down, sliding, slink, slip, slippage, slipping, slither, slithering, snake, sneak, snowslide, snowslip, soar, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spiral, stall, steal, stop, stopped, stream, stressed, strong, stunting, subsidence, surd, sweep, sweeping, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tactical maneuvers, take the air, take wing, tense, thick, throaty, toboggan, tobogganing, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, volplane, vowel, vowellike, walk the waters, weak, wide, wing, work well, zoom

Etymology
Old English glīdan, from West Germanic. Cognate with Dutch glijden, German gleiten.

Pronunciation

 * SAMPA: /glaId/ (/glaIdz/, /glaIdIN/, /glaId@d/)
 * SAMPA: /glaId/ (/glaIdz/, /glaIdIN/, /glaId@d/)

Verb

 * Finnish:, ,
 * Italian: volteggiare


 * Macedonian: лизга


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gliti
 * Finnish:


 * Italian: librarsi
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: planear


 * Finnish: panna liukumaan, liu'uttaa


 * Macedonian: слизнува

Synonyms
(to move effortlessly)
 * coast
 * slide

Noun

 * Finnish: liitäminen, liito


 * Macedonian: лизгање

Related terms

 * glider
 * gliding

Anagrams

 * gelid