The skier glides over the water FromMiddle English gliden Old English glīdan Proto-West Germanic *glīdan Proto-Germanic *glīdaną Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-
Cognate withWest Frisian glide glydzje Low German glieden Dutch glijden German gleiten Norwegian Nynorsk gli Danish glide Swedish glida Finnish liitää
glide (third-person singular simple present glides present participle gliding simple past glided or glid or ( archaic ) glode past participle glided or glid or ( archaic ) glode or glidden
( intransitive ) 1807 William Wordsworth , “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, inPoems, in Two Volumes [ … ] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme , [ … ] →OCLC The riverglideth at his own sweet will:
1834 L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon] , chapter XVII, inFrancesca Carrara. [ … ] , volume III, London:Richard Bentley , [ … ] Henry Colburn ),→OCLC page137 :It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentimentglide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, inBBC [1] But it was 37-year-oldGiggs who looked like a care-free teenager as heglided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect. ( intransitive ) flying fish .1947 Railway Magazine , page 8:The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, andgliding on the wind.
( transitive ) ( phonetics ) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly
Armenian:սահել (hy) ( sahel ) Bulgarian:плъзгам се ( plǎzgam se ) ,нося се леко ( nosja se leko ) Catalan:lliscar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:滑动 (zh) ( huádòng ) ,滑行 (zh) ( huáxíng ) Czech:klouzat impf klouzat se impf Danish:glide Dutch:glijden (nl) Finnish:liitää (fi) ,lipua (fi) ,liukua (fi) French:glisser (fr) German:gleiten (de) Italian:scivolare (it) ,slittare (it) ,scorrere (it) ,muoversi con fluidità Latin:lābor (la) Macedonian:лизга ( lizga ) Māori:naki wani rōnaki whātino tuanaki Middle English:gliden Old English:glidan Portuguese:deslizar (pt) Romanian:glisa (ro) ,aluneca (ro) Russian:скользи́ть (ru) impf ( skolʹzítʹ ) Slovak:kĺzať (sa) impf Spanish:deslizar (es) Swedish:glida (sv)
To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft
(phonology) To become a glide; to become non-syllabic/non-nuclear
glide (plural glides
The act of gliding. ( phonology ) transitional sound ,especially asemivowel .Synonyms: semivowel semiconsonant ( fencing ) blade , keeping it in constant contact.A bird, theglede orkite . A kind ofcap affixed to the base of thelegs offurniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.Hyponym: bell glide The joining of twosounds without abreak . A smooth and slidingstep indancing thewaltz . Derived from noun or verb
(phonology) Non-nuclear sound
(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement
FromMiddle Low German gliden
glide (imperative glid infinitive atglide ,present tense glider past tense gled perfect tense gledet
toslide toslip toglide glide
alternative form ofglede ( “ kite (bird of prey) ” ) FromMiddle Low German gliden
glide (present tense glid past tense gleid past participle glidd or glitt or glide present participle glidande imperative glid
toslip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface )Hangleid på isen. Heslipped on the ice. toglide to move effortlessly )Skiaglid godt. The skisglide well. glīde
inflection ofglīdan first-person singular present indicative singular present subjunctive glide
inflection ofglīdan second-person singular preterite indicative singular preterite subjunctive glide
dative singular ofglid FromOld Frisian glīda Proto-West Germanic *glīdan Proto-Germanic *glīdaną
glide
toglide , toslide “glide ”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011 
