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Glide vs Slouch - What's the difference?

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Glide is a related term of slouch.


In lang=en terms the difference between glide and slouch

is that glide is to cause to glide while slouch is to walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

As verbs the difference between glide and slouch

is that glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly while slouch is to hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture.

As nouns the difference between glide and slouch

is that glide is the act of gliding while slouch is a hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.

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)

    • slouch

    English

    Noun

  • A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
    • He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch .
  • any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
    • The plant hung in a permanent slouch .
  • someone who is slow to act
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
  • (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

    • Derived terms

    * slouch hat

    Verb

  • To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
    • Do not slouch when playing a flute.
  • To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
    • I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.

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