Glides vs Flies - What's the difference?
glides | flies |
(glide)
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==Volapük==
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.
(pluralonly) The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
The trouser zip
(fly)
As verbs the difference between glides and flies
is that glides is third-person singular of glide while flies is third-person singular of fly.As a noun flies is
plural of lang=en.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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