Scurry vs Glide - What's the difference?
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To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
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To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
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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.
Scurry is a related term of glide.
As verbs the difference between scurry and glide
is that scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper while glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.As a noun glide is
the act of gliding.scurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
Derived terms
* scurry away * scurry offAnagrams
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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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