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(US) (glide)

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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.

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To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.

To cause to glide.

(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

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(nonstandard) (slide)

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(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface

He slid the boat across the grass.

The safe slid slowly.

Snow slides down the side of a mountain.

To move on a low-friction surface.

The car slid on the ice.

* (rfdate), Waller:

They bathe in summer, and in winter slide .

(baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.

Jones slid into second.

To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.

He slid while going around the corner.

To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.

to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question

(obsolete) To pass inadvertently.

* Bible, Eccles. xxviii. 26

Beware thou slide not by it.

To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.

A ship or boat slides through the water.

* (rfdate), Dryden:

Ages shall slide away without perceiving.

* (rfdate), Alexander Pope:

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

(music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

* (rfdate), Chaucer:

With good hope let he sorrow slide .

* (rfdate), Philip Sidney:

With a calm carelessness letting everything slide .