# glide
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlaɪd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪd

### Verb

glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode)
* (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
** 1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC:The river glideth at his own sweet will:
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 137:It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
** 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.
** 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC‎: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.
* (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
** 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
* (transitive) To cause to glide.
* (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

#### Synonyms

* (to move effortlessly): coast, slide

#### Translations
### Noun

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glide (plural glides)
* The act of gliding.
* (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
    Synonyms: semivowel, semiconsonant
* (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.
* A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.
    Hyponym: bell glide
* The joining of two sounds without a break.
* A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.

#### Derived terms

* boostglide
* downglide
* glidant
* glide bomb
* glideless
* glideosome
* glide pad
* glide path
* glider
* glide ratio
* glide reflection
* glide slope
* glideslope
* glide time
* gliding
* gliding vowel
* glip
* handglide
* hang glide
* hang-glide
* midglide
* offglide, off-glide
* onglide, on-glide
* outglide
* overglide
* paraglide
* upglide
* voice glide

### Anagrams

* gelid, lidge, liged

## Middle English
### Noun

glide
* Alternative form of glede (“kite (bird of prey)”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* glida (a infinitive)
* gli (short form)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German gliden.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ɡliːə/

### Verb

glide (present tense glid, past tense gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)
* to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)
    Han gleid på isen.He slipped on the ice.
* to glide (to move effortlessly)
    Skia glid godt.The skis glide well.

### References

* “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡliː.de/
* IPA: /ˈɡli.de/

### Verb

glīde
* inflection of glīdan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

### Verb

glide
* inflection of glīdan:
** second-person singular preterite indicative
** singular preterite subjunctive

## Volapük
### Noun

glide
* dative singular of glid

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian glīda, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlidə/, /ˈɡliːdə/

### Verb

glide
* to glide, to slide

#### Further reading

* “glide”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011