glide
glide Lexical Profile
glide Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To move with a smooth, quiet, and continuous motion, seemingly without effort.
"Swans glided silently across the misty surface of the lake at dawn."
To fly through the air without engine power or without flapping wings, relying on air currents and aerodynamic lift.
"The hawk spread its broad wings and glided high above the canyon floor."
To pass gradually, smoothly, or imperceptibly (especially of time or states).
"The warm summer afternoons seemed to glide by without a care."
• noun
A smooth, continuous, and effortless movement along a surface or through the air.
"The figure skater finished her routine with a graceful glide across the center of the rink."
In phonetics, a speech sound produced as the vocal organs move smoothly toward or away from the articulation of a vowel, such as the initial sounds in 'wet' or 'yet'.
"In English phonology, the sounds /w/ and /j/ are classified as glides because they lack a fixed point of obstruction."
• Rhymes for glide
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'glīdan', meaning to slip or move smoothly, ultimately derived from a Proto-Germanic root shared with German 'gleiten'.