Glides vs Glider - What's the difference?
glides | glider |
(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.
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)
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)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)glider
English
(wikipedia glider)Noun
(en noun)- 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.