Glide vs Slithers - What's the difference?
glide | slithers |
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
* Wordsworth
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
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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.
(slither)
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
As verbs the difference between glide and slithers
is that glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly while slithers is (slither).As a noun glide
is the act of gliding.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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Synonyms
* (to move effortlessly) coast, slideNoun
(en noun)Noun
(head)slithers
English
Verb
(head)slither
English
Verb
(en verb)- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.
