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glide

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

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gride

English

Etymology

From a metathetic variation of gird (to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe), from Middle English girden, gerden (to strike, thrust, smite, literally smite with a rod), from gerd, yerd (a rod, yard). More at yard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???a?d/
  • Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

gride (third-person singular simple present grides, present participle griding, simple past and past participle grided)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To travel through something, of a weapon or sharp object.
  3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
    • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108:
      Fiercely flies
      The blast of North and East, and ice
      Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
      And bristles all the brakes and thorns
      To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
      Above the wood which grides and clangs
      Its leafless ribs and iron horns
      Together, in the drifts that pass
      To darken on the rolling brine
      That breaks the coast.

Translations

Noun

gride (plural grides)

  1. A harsh grating sound.

Anagrams

  • Ridge, derig, dirge, redig, ridge

Garo

Adverb

gride

  1. without

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