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Definition: Glide |
GlideNoun1. A vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant. 2. The act of sliding or gliding. 3. The activity of flying a glider. Verb1. Move smoothly and effortlessly. 2. Fly a glider plane. 3. Cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Glide \Glide\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Glided; Gliding.]. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. A controlled descent by a heavier-than-air aeronautical vehicle under little or no engine thrust in which forward motion is maintained by gravity and vertical descent is controlled by lift forces.2. A descending flight path of a glide, sense 1, as, a shallow glide. 3. To descend in a glide, sense 1. (references) |
Mining | A. See:slip b. A noncrystallographic shearing movement, as one grain over another. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | This is the taking of the opponent's blade, maintaining momentary contact. . . by gliding along it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A gradual descent, with little or no thrust. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Glide is a town located in Douglas County, Oregon. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,690.Geography
Glide is located at 43°19'9" North, 123°4'1" West (43.319078, -123.066926)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 26.3 km² (10.2 mi²). 26.2 km² (10.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.59% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,690 people, 624 households, and 484 families residing in the town. The population density is 64.6/km² (167.3/mi²). There are 675 housing units at an average density of 25.8/km² (66.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 94.73% White, 0.00% African American, 2.31% Native American, 0.47% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 0.06% from other races, and 2.31% from two or more races. 0.95% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 624 households out of which 36.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.9% are married couples living together, 7.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% are non-families. 18.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.71 and the average family size is 3.06. In the town the population is spread out with 28.6% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 104.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.5 males. The median income for a household in the town is $40,345, and the median income for a family is $45,313. Males have a median income of $37,857 versus $21,591 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,444. 8.0% of the population and 9.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.2% are under the age of 18 and 8.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glide, Oregon."
Synonyms: GlideSynonyms: gliding (n), sailing (n), sailplaning (n), semivowel (n), slide (n), soaring (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. |
Course | Verb: elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course. |
Journey | Peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile. |
Motion | Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving; |
Navigation | Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glide |
| English words defined with "glide": family Hemiramphidae ♦ Glidden, Glided, Gliden, Glode ♦ Hemiramphidae, hydroplane ♦ Illapse ♦ Overglide ♦ seaplane, skate, skitter ♦ Voice glide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glide": boostglide vehicle ♦ Canal, Cloacina ♦ elevation guidance ♦ glide ratio, glide scope, gliding angle, gliding distance, gliding ratio, global velocities ♦ ILS point A, ILS point B, ILS point C, ILS reference datum ♦ lamellar flow ♦ nipple mouse ♦ overturning skip ♦ Physignathos, precision approach procedure ♦ smectic state ♦ touch-down. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glide": Preterlapsed. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glide" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Frisian (glide, slip). |
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Screenplays | See? Glide. It's all in the buttocks (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) To glide like a dream on the smooth surface of the lake, and never go to the shore (The Swan; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; John Dighton) | |
Lyrics | You da Numba 1 stunna, and we gonna glide (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) Glide on the peace train (Peace Train; performing artist: Cat Stevens) I wanna glide down over Mulholland ("Free Fallin'"; performing artist: Tom Petty) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Electra Glide in Blue (1973) Gertie's Gasoline Glide (1916) | |
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 | The darktown bicycle club - on parade: "Hooray for de rumatic! Dont she glide lubly.". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A glide with the double-rudder machine moving to the left, north slope of Big Kill Devil Hill. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She saw him push aside the bar of the grating, and glide into the garden |
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Health | The doctor will gently insert the tip of the cystoscope into your urethra and slowly glide it up into the bladder. (references) | |
When we open our mouths, the rounded ends of the lower jaw, called condyles, glide along the joint socket of the temporal bone. The condyles slide back to their original position when we close our mouths. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Economic assistance levels were set at $815 million per year between 1979 and 1998 as a result of the Camp David accords (1978). As part of an overall revision in U.S. assistance policy, aid levels have, by mutual agreement with the Government of Egypt, been on a downward glide path since 1999. The USAID budget for Egypt for FY 2001 is $695 million. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Glide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 43.58% of the time. "Glide" is used about 179 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 43.58% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 28.49% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 27.37% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 179 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Glide, OR |
Expressions using "glide": false ils glide path ♦ glide along ♦ glide angle ♦ glide away ♦ glide by ♦ glide in ♦ glide off ♦ glide out ♦ Glide path ♦ glide path receiver ♦ glide path sector obstacle clearance ♦ glide path transmitter ♦ glide slope ♦ half ils glide path sector ♦ hang glide ♦ ils glide path ♦ ils glide path angle ♦ ils glide path bend ♦ ils glide path sector ♦ indicated glide path angular errer ♦ indicated glide path curvature ♦ indicated ils glide path ♦ indicated ils glide path angle ♦ indicated ils glide path sector ♦ plane of the nominal ils glide path ♦ spiral glide ♦ voice glide. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "glide": glide-approach, glide-bomb, glide-out. | |
Ending with "glide": hang-glide. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
glide | 158 | hang glide | 16 |
billy glide | 131 | dyna glide | 15 |
cardio glide | 63 | harley davidson electra glide | 15 |
furniture glide | 51 | forever glide lost | 14 |
road glide | 50 | plastic glide | 14 |
electra glide | 42 | electra glide in blue | 14 |
chair glide | 42 | glide driver | 14 |
dyna wide glide | 38 | harley davidson dyna wide glide | 13 |
astro glide | 28 | electra glide classic | 13 |
glide wrapper | 27 | harley davidson wide glide | 13 |
body glide | 26 | weslo cardio glide | 13 |
drawer glide | 25 | harley davidson road glide | 13 |
dyna wide glide for sale | 22 | electra glide standard | 13 |
austin clyde glide | 22 | church glide memorial | 13 |
power glide | 22 | harley electra glide | 12 |
glide or | 21 | 3dfx glide | 11 |
dyna super glide | 18 | glide floss | 11 |
wide glide | 17 | super glide | 11 |
id glide | 17 | ultra glide | 11 |
stair glide | 17 | glide oregon | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "glide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gly (slip). (various references) | |
Albanian | zbritje e ëmbël (gliding), zbret ëmbël, rrëshqitje (coast, gliding, glissade, skid, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, subsidence), rrëshqas (coast, dance, evade, glance off, glissade, ride, skate, skid, slide, slip, slither, toboggan), kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness). (various references) | |
Arabic | نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), تزلق (slid, slipping), تزلج (skate, skating, ski, sled, slide, slip), زحلقة (slid), طيران شراعي, إنقضى (elapse, pass away, terminate, tick), أنسل من. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нося се плавно (scud, slip along, swim), наклонена плоскост (incline, ramp, slide), минавам неусетно (slip away, slip by), летя без мотор, безмоторно летене, пързалка (slide), промъквам се (insinuate, lurk, shine through, skin through, slink in, slip by), преходен звук, портаменто (slide), плъзгане (gliding, skid, slide, sliding), плъзгам (pass, skim, slide, slither), плъзвам се (slip over), плавно движение (scud), планирам (arrange, contemplate, devise, intend, map out, mastermind, plan, plane, project, schedule, scheme, volplane). (various references) | |
Chinese | 滑翔 . (various references) | |
Czech | vynášet se, plachtit (volplane), klouzat (ride, slide, slip), klouzání (sliding). (various references) | |
Danish | glider (furniture glide, furniture slide, groove, slider), glideflyvning (gliding flight, soaring), plastsko (furniture glide, furniture slide, slider). (various references) | |
Dutch | zweefvliegen (plane). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gliti (slip), glisi (plane). (various references) | |
Faeroese | glíða (slip), skreiða (slip), aka (slip). (various references) | |
Farsi | پروازکردن بدون نیروی موتور, نرم رفتن , سریدن (Coast, Skid, Slide, Slither), سرخوردن (Skate, Skid), سبک پریدن , خزیدن (Crawl, Creep, Grovel, Ramp, Slime, Slither, Worm), خرامش (Gait, Gang, Pace), اسان رفتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | liukua (slide, slip). (various references) | |
French | vol plané (gliding flight), planer, glisser (glide along). (various references) | |
Frisian | glydzje (slip), gliere (slip), glide (slip). (various references) | |
German | gleiten (slide, slip, floating), rutschen (skid, slide, slip, to slide), gleitflug (gliding flight, volplane). (various references) | |
Greek | γλιστρώ (slide, slip, slither), πετώ με τεντωμένα φτερά, διολισθαίνω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להחליק (skid, sleek, slide, slither), לדאות (fly, soar), לגלוש (brim over, overflow, run over, slide, slop, trail), גלישה (gliding, overflow, seething, skiing, slide, surfing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | siklás (gliding, slide), csúszás (slide, creep, lapse, slip), surranás, csúszó lépés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | geluntur (slide), terbang luncur, menggelincir (see: gelincir), melayang (waft). (various references) | |
Italian | guida (direction, guidance, guide), volo planato (gliding flight), vertere (act, act in place of, floatation, hang, hover, waver), scorrere (flow, run, slide), scivolata (slide, slip), scivolare (slip), planata, planare (plane, volplane), fluire (flow, run). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 滑走 (volplane). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっそう (brown algae, phaeophyceae, volplane). (various references) | |
Korean | 활공. (various references) | |
Manx | snaue (bathing, course, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, float, floating, flotation, gliding, in suspension, sidle, slither, slithering, swim), shliawinane (chute, runner, shoot, slide, slipway), gooillian (soar), foilleyraght (gliding). (various references) | |
Norwegian | glidning, gli. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ideglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | planar (float, plane, soar, volplane), deslize (glissade, lapse, lapsus, slip, stumble), deslizar (glissade, pass, roll, skitter). (various references) | |
Romanian | aluneca (slip). (various references) | |
Russian | скользить;планировать, скользить (slither), скольжение (gliding, glissade, slide, slip, slipping), планировать (plan out, plane, pre-arrange, schedule, schemed, scheming, soar), планирование (gliding, planning, volplane). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stapanje (alligation, amalgamation, fusion, merging), nečujno ići, kliziti (skim, slither), klizanje (glissade, skating, slide, slip), jedriti (sail, soar). (various references) | |
Spanish | planeo (soaring), deslizarse (slither). (various references) | |
Swedish | glida (slide, slip, slither), sväva (float, hover, flit), rutscha (slide). (various references) | |
Thai | แล่น, การร่อน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yarı ünlü, ses değişimi (ablaut), süzülmek (be filtered, distil, distill, drain, filter, float, flow, percolate, plane, ride, seep, soar, volplane), planör ile uçma (gliding), motorsuz uçmak, kaymak (aquaplane, cream, glissade, head, lapse, prolapse, skate, ski, skimmings, slide, slip, slither, slump), kayma (creep, creepage, dislocation, gliding, slide, sliding, slip, slipping), havada süzülme (planing, soaring). (various references) | |
Turkmen | typmak (slide, slip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | струменіти (flow, ripple), спокійний плин, ковзати (skid, slide, slip, swim), ковзання (backlash, glissade, skidding, slide, slip, slipping). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trượt đi (gliding). (various references) | |
Welsh | llithro (slide, slip), llithriad (slip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | affluam, affluant, affluatis, affluens, affluent, affluentes, afflues, affluet, affluit, defluant, defluebantque, defluent, defluenti, defluentibus, deflueret, defluet, defluit, defluxerunt, defluxit, labaris, labatur, labi, labitur, labor, labor lapsus, lapsa, lapsi, lapsos, lapsu, lapsus, serpens, serpente, serpentem, serpentes, serpenti, serpentia, serpentibus, serpentis, serpentium, serpit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glide": glided, glider, gliders, glides. (additional references) | |
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"Glide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clide, eglide, Gaida, gelida, ghid, giade, gidi, Giduk, gied, gilda, gilde, gilden, gildt, gilte, glaed, glande, Gledy, glete, gli, glibe, glid, gliddo, Glidwell, glie, glime, gline, glipe, glite, glitze, glive, glize, Glodex, Glyde, Glyme, glype, glytex, Golledge, Gride. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glide" (pronounced glī"d) |
| 3 | -l ī" d | allied, applied, belied, collide, complied, lied, flied, implied, misapplied, oversupplied, plied, relied, replied, slide, supplied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gelid. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l" | |
-1 letter: deil, deli, diel, geld, gied, gild, gled, idle, lied. | |
-2 letters: del, die, dig, eld, ged, gel, gid, gie, led, leg, lei, lid, lie. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, el, id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l" | |
+1 letter: bilged, dingle, edgily, engild, gilded, gilder, gilled, girdle, glided, glider, glides, glimed, guiled, midleg, regild, ridgel. | |
+2 letters: aligned, clinged, dealing, deleing, delight, delving, dingles, divulge, doglike, dueling, eliding, eluding, engilds, gallied, gelding, gelidly, geoidal, giggled, gilders, gillied, girdled, girdler, girdles, gladier, glaired, glaived, glenoid, gliders, glinted, gloried, godlier, godlike, griddle, grilled, guilder, gullied, higgled, indulge, jiggled, jingled, leading, ledgier, lending, ligated, lighted, melding, midlegs, mingled, niggled, obliged, regilds, ridgels, singled, tingled, welding, wergild, wiggled. | |
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