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Glides vs Glider - What's the difference?

glides | glider |

As a verb glides

is (glide).

As a noun glider is

any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.

glides

English

Verb

(head)
  • (glide)
  • ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (head)

  • glide

    English

    Verb

  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 22 , author= , title=Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.}}
  • To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
  • To cause to glide.
  • (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
  • Synonyms

    * (to move effortlessly) coast, slide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (head)
  • 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

    * * * English agent nouns ----