glide
/ˈɡlaɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
Intransitive verb
noun
A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
Example Sentences
- "The river glideth at his own sweet will:"
- "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."
- "The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent."
- "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."
- "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."
- "With stealthy glide he approached the door of his master's room, listened, cautiously peeped in, then entered."
Etymology
From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.