Gilded vs Glided - What's the difference?
gilded | glided |
(gild)
Having the color or quality of gold.
Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold.
Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated.
(US) (glide)
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.
Glided is a anagram of gilded.
As verbs the difference between gilded and glided
is that gilded is past tense of gild while glided is past tense of glide.As an adjective gilded
is having the color or quality of gold.gilded
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- 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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