Slink vs Glide - What's the difference?
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To sneak about furtively.
* Milton
* Landor
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To give birth to an animal prematurely.
The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
* Wordsworth
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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.
As nouns the difference between slink and glide
is that slink is snail while glide is the act of gliding.As a verb glide is
to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.slink
English
Verb
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- a cow that slinks her calf
Noun
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* English irregular verbs ----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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