different between trek vs glide

English

Alternative forms

• treck (archaic)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

trek (plural treks)

1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
3. A slow or difficult journey.

4. A long walk.

   Synonym: slog

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

     Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

Related terms

• trigger

Translations

Anagrams

• rekt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /træk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

1. to haul
2. to move (moving house)
3. to pull

Descendants

• ? English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

1. journey

Derived terms

• Groot Trek

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?k/
• Hyphenation: trek
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

1. (uncountable) appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. (countable) journey, migration
3. (uncountable) animal migration
4. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
5. (countable) feature, trait

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trek

1. first-person singular present indicative of trekken
2. imperative of trekken

Anagrams

• rekt

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

1. treck
2. trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ek]

Noun

trek

1. truck

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30

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