different between glide vs flo

English

Etymology

From Middle English gliden, from Old English gl?dan, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??leyd?-.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??la?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

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, in Poems, in Two Volumes (Sonnet 14):

     The river glideth at his own sweet will:

   • 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.
2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
4. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

Synonyms

• (to move effortlessly): coast, slide

Translations

Noun

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

Related terms

• glider
• gliding
• offglide, off-glide
• onglide, on-glide

Translations

Anagrams

• gelid, lidge, liged

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle Low German gliden

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?li??/

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)

2. to glide (to move effortlessly)

References

• “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Noun

glide

1. dative singular of glid

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gl?da, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lid?/, /??li?d?/

Verb

glide

1. to glide, to slide

Inflection

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flo/

Noun

flo m (plural flos, feminine floune)

1. (Quebec) boy

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fl??, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to blow”). Cognate with English blow, Old Armenian ?????? (be?un, “fertile”), Albanian plas (“to blow, explode”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /flo?/, [f??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /flo/, [fl?]

Verb

fl? (present infinitive fl?re, perfect active fl?v?, supine fl?tum); first conjugation

1. I breathe, blow

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• flo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fla, fleo, vlo

Etymology

From Old English fl?, from fl?n reanalysed as a plural, from Proto-Germanic *flainaz. Compare flon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

flo (plural flon or floon)

1. An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
2. (figuratively) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

Descendants

• English: flo

References

• “fl?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse flóð

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu?/, [flu??]
• Homophone: flod

Noun

flo f or m (definite singular floa or floen, indefinite plural floer, definite plural floene)

1. high tide

Synonyms

• høyvann, høgvatn (Nynorsk also), høgvann, høyvatn

Antonyms

• fjære (Nynorsk also), fjøre (Nynorsk also)
• lavvann, lågvatn (Nynorsk also), lågvann, lavvatn
• ebbe (Nynorsk also)

Derived terms

• flo og fjære (“ebb and flow”)
• springflo
• stormflo

See also

• flod (Nynorsk)
• tidevann (“tide”)

References

• “flo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fló (“surface, layer”).

Noun

flo f (definite singular floa, indefinite plural floer or flør, definite plural floene or flørne)

1. a horizontal layer

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse flóð f or n. Akin to English flood. Doublet of flod.

Noun

flo f (definite singular floa, indefinite plural floer or flør, definite plural floene or flørne)

1. a rain shower

Inflection

Etymology 3

Verb

flo

1. (non-standard since 1938) past tense of flå

References

• “flo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• fol

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) flad
• (Puter) fled
• (Vallader) flà

Etymology

From Latin fl?tus.

Noun

flo m (plural flos)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) breath (of air)

Derived terms

• (Sutsilvan) trer flo
• (Surmiran) trer igl flo

Vietnamese

Etymology

From French fluor, from Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [fl???], [f???? l???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [fl???], [f???? l???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [fl???], [f???? l???]
• Phonetic: phlo, ph? lo

Noun

flo

1. fluorine