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Gride vs Glide - What's the difference?

gride | glide |

As verbs the difference between gride and glide

is that gride is (obsolete|transitive) to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab while glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

As a noun glide is

the act of gliding.

gride

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.
  • (obsolete) To travel (through) something, of a weapon or sharp object.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
  • His poinant speare he thrust with puissant sway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde [...].
  • To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
  • Anagrams

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    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

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