Flight vs Glide - What's the difference?
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The act of flying.
An instance of flying.
A collective term for doves or swallows.
A journey made by an aircraft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle, particularly one between two airports, which needs to be reserved in advance.
The act of fleeing. (Flight'' is the noun which corresponds to the verb ''flee .)
A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
A paper plane.
(cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
An air force unit.
Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
(engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
(cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
The act of fleeing.
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
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To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
To cause to glide.
(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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.
As nouns the difference between flight and glide
is that flight is the act of flying while glide is the act of gliding.As verbs the difference between flight and glide
is that flight is to throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual while glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.As an adjective flight
is fast, swift.flight
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) flyht, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 2).Noun
- Birds are capable of flight
- The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
- The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight
- Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
- take flight
- the flight of a refugee
- How many flights is it up?
Derived terms
* direct flight * flight attendant * flight ceiling * flight data recorder * flight deck * flightiness * flightless * flight level * flight of fancy * flight path * flight recorder * flighty * in-flight, inflight * * maiden flight * midflight * overflight * preflight * spaceflight, space flight * take flight * time-of-flight * time-of-flight mass spectrometry * top-flight, topflightVerb
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Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) flyht, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch vlucht and German Flucht (etymology 1).Noun
glide
English
Verb
- The river glideth at his own sweet will.
- The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
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