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Glide vs Lunge - What's the difference?

glide | lunge | Related terms |

Glide is a related term of lunge.


As nouns the difference between glide and lunge

is that glide is the act of gliding while lunge is blister, bulge.

As a verb glide

is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

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

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    Noun

    (head)

    • lunge

    English

    Alternative forms

    * longe (US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.}}
  • A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and is used to control the animal while lungeing.
  • An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back to a standing position.
  • A fish, the namaycush.

    • Derived terms

    * lunge whip

    Verb

  • To make a sudden forward movement (present participle: (lunging)).
  • To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: (lunging) or (lungeing)).

    • Noun

  • a lung
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