Glides vs Consonant - What's the difference?
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(glide)
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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.
(lb) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant , and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
Characterized by harmony or agreement.
* Bishop Beveridge
* Dr. H. More
Having the same sound.
* Howell
(music) Harmonizing together; accordant.
Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
* T. Moore
As a verb glides
is third-person singular of glide.As a noun consonant is
a sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.As an adjective consonant is
characterized by harmony or agreement.glides
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(head)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)consonant
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Each one pretends that his opinion is consonant to the words there used.
- That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity.
- consonant words and syllables
- consonant''' tones; '''consonant chords
- No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.