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Glider vs Gilder - What's the difference?

glider | gilder |

Gilder is a anagram of glider.



As nouns the difference between glider and gilder

is that glider is any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane while gilder is one who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.

glider

English

(wikipedia glider)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
  • A pilot of glider aircraft.
  • Anything that glides, especially an animal or aircraft.
  • (mathematics) In the cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
  • A kind of garden swing.
  • * 2011 , Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good! (page 5)
    • Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.

    Hyponyms

    * hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplane

    Derived terms

    * glider gun * sugar glider

    Anagrams

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    gilder

    English

    (wikipedia gilder)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.

    • Etymology 2

    variant of guilder

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncommon)
  • * 1743 , A Description of Holland , page 103/H4:
    • [...] worth as much as a Dutch'' Gilder , or about 21 Pence ''English .
  • * 1959 , Alec Waugh, Love and the Caribbean , page 263:
    • On both sides they will confuse you by explaining that the Dutch gilder is the currency they prefer.
  • * 2002 , Georges de Menil, Economic Policy (ISBN 1-405-10537-2), page 556:
    • [...] i.e. the 11 'legacy' currencies replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999 (Portuguese escudo, Belgian and Luxembourg franc, French franc, Dutch gilder , Italian lira, [...]).

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