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Glide vs Glissade - What's the difference?

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Glide is a related term of glissade.


In fencing|lang=en terms the difference between glide and glissade

is that glide is (fencing) an attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact while glissade is (fencing) a fencing move that may disarm the opponent ().

As verbs the difference between glide and glissade

is that glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly while glissade is to perform a glissade.

As nouns the difference between glide and glissade

is that glide is the act of gliding while glissade is a sliding, as down a snow slope in the alps ().

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.

    • Related terms

    * glider * gliding * offglide, off-glide * onglide, on-glide

    Anagrams

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

    Noun

    (head)

    • glissade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps ().
  • (ballet) A gliding step beginning and ending in a demi-).
  • A move in some dances such as the galop ().
  • (fencing) A fencing move that may disarm the opponent ().

    • Verb

    (glissad)
  • To perform a glissade.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=5 citation , passage=Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.}}

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