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Budge vs Glide - What's the difference?

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Budge is a related term of glide.


In lang=en terms the difference between budge and glide

is that budge is to move while glide is to cause to glide.

As verbs the difference between budge and glide

is that budge is to move while glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

As nouns the difference between budge and glide

is that budge is a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits while glide is the act of gliding.

As an adjective budge

is (obsolete) brisk; stirring; jocund or budge can be (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics.

budge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bouger.

Alternative forms

* budg (obsolete)

Verb

(budg)
  • To move.
  • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll not budge an inch, boy.
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
  • Yet goals in either half from Jordi Gómez and James Perch inspired them and then, in the face of a relentless City onslaught, they simply would not budge , throwing heart, body and soul in the way of a ball which seemed destined for their net on several occasions.
  • To move.
  • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
  • To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
  • The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
  • To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
  • Derived terms
    * budge up * budger
    Synonyms
    * shift

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
  • (South)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
  • * Milton
  • They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge -gowns from off their backs.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
  • * Milton
  • Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
    Derived terms
    * budge bachelor * budge barrel (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    glide

    English

    Verb

  • To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
  • * Wordsworth
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 22 , author= , title=Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.}}
  • To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
  • To cause to glide.
  • (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
  • Synonyms

    * (to move effortlessly) coast, slide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of gliding.
  • (linguistics) Semivowel
  • (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
  • A bird, the glede or kite.
  • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (head)