Skedaddle vs Glide - What's the difference?
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To move or run away quickly.
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.
Skedaddle is a related term of glide.
As verbs the difference between skedaddle and glide
is that skedaddle is to move or run away quickly while glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.As a noun glide is
the act of gliding.skedaddle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The sheep skedaddled as soon as the shepherd’s dog came near .
Synonyms
* (move or run away quickly) flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lostSee also
*References
* 1897 Hunter, Robert, and Charles Morris (editors), Universal Dictionary of the English Language'', v4, p4291: "Etym. doubtful; perhaps allied to ''scud . To betake one's self hurriedly to flight; to run away as in a panic; to fly in terror. (A word of American origin.)" * Fanciful 19th century American coinagesglide
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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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