gliden.
/ɡlʌɪd/, U.S. /ɡlaɪd/ 1.
a. The action of gliding, in various senses.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > smoothly > a smooth gliding movement
glide1596
swim1817
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > passage through the air > smooth
glide1812
gliding1856
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. D7 The waters glide should still record the same.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 113 [The snake] with indented glides, did slip away Into a bush. View more context for this quotation
1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. iv. 70 A kind of Majesty..which makes a..pleasing glide into the minds of men.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 186 The ruffian..with the ghostly glide..steals close to your bedside.
1795 T. Paine Age of Reason ii. (1819) 83 The glide of the smallest fish..exceeds us in motion.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 269 With a winged glide this maiden would rove.
1818 L. Hunt Sonn. to Keats Surely as I feel..Overhead the glide of a dove's wings.
1841 J. G. Whittier Exiles 176 To hear the dip of Indian oars, The glide of birch canoes.
b. spec. in Cricket. A stroke by which the ball is deflected towards long leg by the turned blade of the bat; = glance n.1 1b. In full glide stroke.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke
long ball1744
nip1752
catch1816
no-hit1827
cut1833
short hit1833
draw1836
drive1836
square hit1837
skylarker1839
skyer1840
skyscraper1842
back-cut1845
bum1845
leg sweep1846
slog1846
square cut1850
driver1851
Harrow drive1851
leg slip1852
poke1853
snick1857
snorter1859
leg stroke1860
smite1861
on-drive1862
bump ball1864
rocketer1864
pull1865
grass trimmer1867
late cut1867
off-drive1867
spoon1871
push1873
push stroke1873
smack1875
Harrow drive1877
pull-stroke1880
leg glance1883
gallery-hit1884
boundary-stroke1887
glide1888
sweep1888
boundary1896
hook1896
leg glide1896
backstroke1897
flick1897
hook stroke1897
cover-drive1898
straight drive1898
square drive1900
edger1905
pull-drive1905
slash1906
placing stroke1907
push drive1912
block shot1915
if-shot1920
placing shot1921
cow-shot1922
mow1925
Chinese cut1937
haymaker1954
hoick1954
perhapser1954
air shot1956
steepler1959
mishook1961
swish1963
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1888 R. H. Lyttelton in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 67 Fig. 10 shows W. G. Grace attempting the glide... This is a stroke in which W. G. Grace excels.
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji in Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 228/1 There is no more effective stroke on the leg side than the ‘glide’ or ‘glance’.
1911 C. B. Fry in P. F. Warner Bk. of Cricket xiii. 227 His [sc. Ranjitsinhji's] so-called ‘glide’ strokes.
1955 Times 9 July 4/7 Neame was beautifully caught at the wicket off a thin leg glide.
c. A step in certain ballroom dances; a gliding type of dance.
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society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > step > gliding step
slur1598
chasing1775
glissade1843
chassé1867
glide1889
sashayc1940
1889 Cent. Dict. Glide,..in dancing, a peculiar waltz-step performed in a smooth and sliding manner.
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xi. 224 ‘Avalon’..was one of the greatest fox trots of the late ‘glide’ period.
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xi. 230 The original ‘glide two step’ fox trot of the ‘Japanese Sandman’ period.
1939 Britannica Bk. of Year 197/1 The ‘Palais Glide’, another group ballroom dance from England, made some headway in America.
d. Aeronautics. The act of gliding; a flight accomplished by gliding.
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society > travel > air or space travel > gliding and hang-gliding > [noun] > a flight accomplished by
glide1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 103/1 He made over 2000 glides safely, using gravity as a motive power.
1909 A. Berget Conquest of Air ii. iii. 175 This descending glide.
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks iv. 43 The Pilot is satisfied that he is now sufficiently high to secure..a long enough glide to earth to enable him to choose and reach a good landing-place.
1940 L. B. Barringer Flight without Power v. 87 On windy days..the two ropes can be joined to make an 800-foot line enabling the pilot to get high enough to make a much longer glide.
1955 A. C. Welch et al. Soaring Pilot viii. 135 The sort of approach which is often seen on aerodromes—a good deal of air-braking early on followed by a long flat glide—is useless for getting into small fields.
1971 Sailplane & Gliding 22 364/1 Many hours later Barrie pulled off a ‘fingernail-biting’ final glide to receive a tumultuous welcome.
2. concrete. A stream (obsolete); also, the gliding portion of a stream, a shallow.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun]
burnc1000
strind?c1225
stranda1240
flowinga1382
gole?a1400
watercoursea1450
riparya1475
glide1590
lympha1630
stream1803
floss1865
strool1867
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > shallow part
glide1590
scour1689
rippling1745
ripple1755
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. L3 He that in Eurotas siluer glide Doth baine his tresse.
1591 R. Greene Maiden's Dreame 4 in Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 301 A silent spring..The glide whereof gainst weeping flints did beat.
1826 Bowlker's Art of Angling (new ed.) 31 The chief haunts of the smaller Greyling are in glides.
1882 Good Words 23 604 Both times as he [a fish] reaches the glide he leaves it.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > long narrow opening
vista1671
glidec1710
enfilade1727
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]
alley1363
tresance1428
passagea1525
gallery1541
trance1545
through-passage1575
lobby1596
passageway?1606
conduit1624
gangway1702
vista1708
glidec1710
aisle1734
gallery1756
corridor1814
traverse1822
heck1825
rotunda1847
scutchell1847
zaguan1851
aisleway1868
pend1893
dogtrot1901
fairway1903
dog run1904
dog walk1938
walkout1947
coulisse1949
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 21 A good hall wth 2 parlours and has a glide through the house into the gardens.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888 143 Through a fine Visto or Glide of trees wch runs along ye parke.
4. Music and Phonetics. (See quots.)
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [noun]
vanish1833
glide1835
voice glide1844
downglide1876
off-glide1877
vowel-glide1878
glide-consonant1888
glide-vowel1888
on-glide1888
attack1902
glide-sound1911
svarita1916
upglide1930
inglide1956
1835 Wilson Dict. Music Glide, the slur, to join two successive sounds without articulation, also the unaccented notes or anticipations in a portamento passage.
1856 A. J. Ellis Universal Writing & Printing 6 The Glide and Syllable. When the bow is drawn, while a finger is slid down a violin string, a succession of sounds is heard, called a Glide. When the voice or whisper is continued, while the position of the organs of speech changes from that due to one sound to that due to another, a Vocal Glide is heard.
1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 69 A series of semi-consonant, semi-vowel sounds..which we call ‘Glides’.
1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §23 The ‘glide’, or sound produced in passing from the one position [of the organs of speech] to the other.
5. Crystallography. Plastic deformation of a crystal in which there is a movement of one atomic plane over another, resulting in the lateral displacement of part of the lattice.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal irregularities > [noun] > processes causing > glide
gliding1886
glide1934
1934 Nature 16 June 912/1 Glide commences in a single crystal when the shear stress on the glide plane, and in the glide direction, reaches a certain value.
1952 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 171 225/2 Lead..in single crystal form is, after a few per cent. glide, harder than cadmium.
1954 E. O. Hall Twinning ii. 31 The areas where glide occurs then appear as steps on the surface of the crystal.
1960 Metallurgia Mar. 125/1 He demonstrates glide, partial dislocations..and a number of other imperfections in structure.
1970 A. Kelly & R. A. Hendricks Crystallogr. vi. 169 At low temperature crystals yield plastically by a process called glide.
Compounds
glide bomb n. a bomb fitted with aerofoils that enable it to glide towards its target when released from an aircraft; hence as v. intransitive, to drop glide bombs.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > aerial > glide bomb
glide bomb1943
glider bomb1944
1943 Newsweek 8 Mar. 24 A divebomber pilot must be able to glide bomb in certain circumstances.
1943 Time 25 Oct. 23/1 The airmen knew that 1,800 fighters equipped with cannon, machine guns, some with glide bombs..are concentrated between Denmark and Belgium.
1954 K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile (ed. 2) v. 135 The Petrel..rocket-propelled ‘glide bomb’..was capable of a short undersurface run, the wings and rocket motors breaking off as the missile entered the water close to the target.
glide-consonant n. (see quot.).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [noun]
vanish1833
glide1835
voice glide1844
downglide1876
off-glide1877
vowel-glide1878
glide-consonant1888
glide-vowel1888
on-glide1888
attack1902
glide-sound1911
svarita1916
upglide1930
inglide1956
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] > glide
glide-consonant1888
1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §33 Glide-consonants in the special sense of the word are consonants formed without any fixed configuration.
glide-direction n. a direction in a glide-plane in which glide can occur.
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1933 W. H. Bragg & W. L. Bragg Crystalline State I. viii. 198 The relative movement occurs along a definite crystallographic axis lying in the plane, the ‘glide direction’.
1934Glide direction [see sense 5]. glide path n. the line of descent followed by a landing aircraft; spec. one indicated to the pilot by radar, etc., from the ground.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > sudden rapid descent > descent prior to landing > line of
glide path1936
glideslope1951
1936 Electr. Commun. XV. 196/1 The experimentally tested glide path (Gleitweg) process..can be utilized as, for example, in Switzerland, where the glide path is followed down within a few meters from the ground.
1938 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 42 747 Such essential elements as runway localisers, glide path and markers are analysed.
1938 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 42 490 There is a vertical glide path indicator.
1968 Guardian 28 Dec. 1/5 Apollo 8 had to aim at a ‘keyhole’ entrance to the earth, an imaginary corridor only 35 miles wide. This is the so-called ‘glidepath’ they had to shoot at as they entered the upper atmosphere.
1970 Times 8 Apr. 10/3 A lower approach, much more like coming down the glide path of an airport, should create fewer troubles from a dust storm raised by the rocket motors.
glide-plane n. Crystallography a plane in a crystal in which glide occurs; also, a symmetry element of a space-lattice such that reflection in the plane followed by a translation parallel to it produces a lattice congruent with the original.
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1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. i. 7 The glide-planes, in the case of deformed crystals, are..planes along which disruption can be easily effected.
1946 Nature 21 Sept. 395/1 Space-groups, rotation-axes, glide-planes.
1963 E. S. Hills Elem. Struct. Geol. 117 The relatively high ductility of metals is due to the non-directional nature of the metallic bond.., which permits ready re-establishment of cohesion across glide planes and crystal boundaries.
glide-sound n. in Phonetics, the sound of a glide.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [noun]
vanish1833
glide1835
voice glide1844
downglide1876
off-glide1877
vowel-glide1878
glide-consonant1888
glide-vowel1888
on-glide1888
attack1902
glide-sound1911
svarita1916
upglide1930
inglide1956
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 465/2 Acoustically speaking..voiceless stops are pure glide-sounds, the stop itself being inaudible.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vi. 96 The intervening non-distinctive glide-sounds that are produced while the vocal organs change their position.
glide-twinning n. Crystallography the formation of a twin by the gliding of adjacent layers of a crystal lattice over one another.
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1951 N. F. M. Henry et al. Interpr. X-ray Diffraction Photogr. i. 17/2 In certain substances showing the special type of homogeneous deformation called glide twinning the amount of relative displacement is absolutely fixed for a particular glide in a given substance.
1957 Encycl. Brit. VI. 828 i/2 Plasticity [of a crystal] is sometimes associated with glide-twinning, a process in which there is a sudden switching of the atoms to a second stable position related in a definite geometrical way to the first.
glide-twin n.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal irregularities > [noun] > processes causing > glide > resulting formation
glide-twin1938
1938 W. A. Wooster Text-bk. Crystal Physics ii. 52 The indices of the crystallographic twin..and those of the glide-twin.
1951 N. F. M. Henry et al. Interpr. X-ray Diffraction Photogr. i. 17/2 In order to define a glide twin completely, it is necessary to specify (i) the glide plane, (ii) the glide direction, and (iii) the amount of glide.
glide-vowel n. a vowel which cannot form a syllable by itself.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [noun]
vanish1833
glide1835
voice glide1844
downglide1876
off-glide1877
vowel-glide1878
glide-consonant1888
glide-vowel1888
on-glide1888
attack1902
glide-sound1911
svarita1916
upglide1930
inglide1956
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > types of
naso-vocal1669
sheva1818
union vowel1821
shut sound1841
cardinal vowel1851
u-sound1852
neutral vowel1868
O1869
wide1870
vincular1871
indeterminate vowel1873
u-vowel1886
orinasal1887
pharyngal1887
glide-vowel1888
schwa1895
murmur vowel1910
murmured vowel1933
1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §22 These diphthongic or ‘glide-’ vowels are written consonant size.
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c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 643/6 Hec incedula, glyde-worme.
Draft additions 1993
glideslope n. = glide path n. at Compounds above.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > sudden rapid descent > descent prior to landing > line of
glide path1936
glideslope1951
1951 Aviation Age Sept. 35/1 As you pass over the outer marker and down the glideslope the approach horizon comes into play.
1962 Aeroplane 12 Apr. 27/1 Suitable for mounting anywhere in the aircraft, the glideslope receiver is housed in an ARINC half-height short-quarter ATR case.
1987 Pilot Apr. 34/1 A Falco on the ILS will doubtless go exactly where you tell it to go exactly when you tell it, but I'd just as soon trundle down the glideslope in a machine that doesn't need to be told quite so often.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
glidev.
/ɡlʌɪd/, U.S. /ɡlaɪd/ 1. intransitive. To pass from one place to another by a smooth and continuous movement, without effort or difficulty.figurative.1691–1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World i. ii. 110 Truth..whose..streams..glide through the barren regions of our.. sensible world.1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 22 With secret course..Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 50 The dialogue glides and sparkles like a clear stream from the Muses' spring.
a. along the surface of, or through, a liquid.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > move smoothly in or on liquid
glideOE
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > glide
glideOE
lapse1832
schoon1836
OE Andreas (1932) 498 Is þes bat ful scrid, færeð famigheals, fugole gelicost glideð on geofone.
OE Beowulf 515 Git..glidon ofer garsecg.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 324/69 Þat schip bi-gan to glide.
13.. K. Alis. 6194 So wyght undur the water they rideth, So ony schip above glideth.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. v. 81 And throu the wallis on the tother part [the ship] Glydis away vndir the fomy seis.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 47 From shoare we be glyding.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena vi. 163 Whilest then the Galleyes..glided on a maine speede.
1649 T. Stanley Europa 9 Down leaps he, Dolphinlike glides through the seas.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 15 Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. I. 245 We glided gradually past a great number of shipping to the landing-place.
1863 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 183 Harold's own vessel stood the proof, and glode safely over the obstacle.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. ii. 43 One at the window sits..And sees all sorts of ships go down the river gliding.
b. of a liquid, a stream, etc. †In early use often of tears or blood, where flow would now be used.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly
glidec1175
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > slowly or gently
trinkle1513
glide1526
soak1699
lapse1832
slumber1868
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Alle heore teres beoð berninde gleden glidende ouer heore aȝene nebbe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6374 Him gunnen glide teores.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1851 The blod ran of his sides So water that fro the welle glides.
a1400 Sir Perc. 537 The teres oute of his eghne glade.
c1430 Hymns Virg. 28 Al he suffride þat was wisest, His blood to lete doun glide.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 37 Quhill blude and watter did furth glyde.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOOvv As water glydeth on the erthe, so our lyfe vanyssheth and passeth.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 18 v I..aske the gentle flood as it did glide, Or thou didst passe, or perish by the tide?
1699 S. Garth Dispensary ii. 15 A while his curdling Blood forgot to glide.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 68 The Waters that glide in the Sinuosities of the Earth, meet with Sulphur or Lime.
1707 E. Smith Phædra & Hippolytus iii. 31 Soft Cydonian Oyl, Whose balmy Juice glides o'er th' untasting Tongue.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 17 Where..brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspis glide.
1802 W. Wordsworth Sonn. ‘Earth has not anything to show,’ The river glideth at his own sweet will.
1848 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine (1879) xi. 246 The little stream glided and rippled by..over its rocky bed.
1885 Bible (R.V.) Song of Sol. vii. 9 Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.
c. of motion through the air; spec. (of an aeroplane) to fly without engine power; (also transitive) to traverse in a glider.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly
glideOE
scum1513
skim1591
kite1854
society > travel > air or space travel > gliding and hang-gliding > glide or hang-glide [verb (intransitive)]
sail1897
glide1910
hang-glide1986
society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)] > glide
plane1908
glide1910
OE Andreas (1932) 1304 Nið upp aras oþðæt sunne gewat to sete glidan under niflan næs.
OE Beowulf 2073 Heofones gim glad ofer grundas.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 91 Swa reðe swa his sceada heom on glad heo weren iheled.
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 643 The moone..was in to Cancre glyden.
c1386 G. Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 385 The vapour which þat fro the erthe glood Made the sonne to seme rody and brood.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11428 Þe stern alwais þam forwit glade.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 799 Þe worme..Comes glydande fro þe clowddez.
c1440 York Myst. xxx. 76 Þe sonne..glydis to þe grounde with his glitterand glemys.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1239 When he saw aungels fra heuen glyde.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. O.iiiiv Whyle, through his signes, fiue tymes great Titan glode.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xii. 585 And through, and through the ship, his lightning glid.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 629 The Cherubim descended..Gliding meteorous, as Ev'ning Mist. View more context for this quotation
1827 J. Montgomery Pelican Island iii. 113 Where glid the sunbeams through the latticed boughs.
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) I. 152 On the back of the quick-winged bird I glode.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxi. 426 One glides with quivering pinions to the centre of the open space.
1894 To-day 17 Mar. 171/2 He believes that the first principle of scientific flying is the ability to glide evenly along in space.
1910 C. C. Turner Aerial Navigation xx. 252 The best means of becoming proficient in flying is first to learn to glide.
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks iv. 53 The Aeroplane with noiseless engine glides over the boundary of the Aerodrome.
1931 Times 23 June 17/4 The claim that he was the first man to ‘glide’ the Channel.
1940 L. B. Barringer Flight without Power ii. 15 The very efficient high performance gliders can glide a long way without losing much height.
1958 D. Piggott Gliding ii. 12 Launching signals and procedure are more or less standard..wherever you glide in England.
d. in general. Now often applied to the progression of a person walking or riding, of a carriage, etc., to express extreme smoothness of movement and the absence of perceptible motion of the limbs, wheels, etc.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly
slidea950
scritheOE
glidea1275
silec1400
swima1556
steal1626
slip1680
snoove1719
skate1775
sleek1818
a1275 in Hist. Holy Rood-tree (1894) 79 So gleam glidis þurt þe glas..þurt þe hoale þurch he gload.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 443/375 Þat wedur bi-gan to glide, in þe oþur half of þe churche.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxvv An Hyll remouyd from his propre place, and glode by many a Myle.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 655 All rankt, Achilles show'd The race-scope. From the start, they glid.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Th' Infernal Troops like passing Shadows glide . View more context for this quotation
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 43 The Horses have worked with right good-will..And now they smoothly glide along.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 35 She glides away like a lambent flame.
1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini iv. 79 Looking round about, As he glode by.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 289 The two horsemen glided down from the profile of the hill.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 127 In through the lattice did my chariot glide.
1877 G. MacDonald Marquis of Lossie xlv Before him glode the shape of Clementina.
1888 R. Buchanan City of Dream ii. 40 Mighty priests Glode by on steeds bridled with glittering gold.
2. Said of the mode of progression of reptiles.
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the world > animals > reptiles > [verb (intransitive)] > move
snikec897
slidea1300
glidec1315
slither1839
c1315 Shoreham 161 Opone thy wombe thou schalt glyde.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 370 Niðful neddre,..Sal gliden on hise brest neðer.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 260 She [Medea] glode forth, as an adder doth.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xvii. i. 735 Some beestes crepith and glydeth on the grounde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11608 Vte o þis coue þan sagh þai glide Mani dragons.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/1 Glydyn, serpo.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv The serpentes twine with hasted traile they glide To Pallas temple.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 [The Snake] in some secret cranny slowly glides . View more context for this quotation
1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall I. vii. 138 There the birds of darkness loved to hide, The loathed toad to lodge, and speckled snake to glide.
1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets (1863) 24 Oh, would the serpent had not glode along To Eden's garden-land.
3. To go unperceived, quietly, or stealthily; to insinuate oneself, steal, ‘slip’ into, out of a place.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)] > move off or away
steal1154
atslip?c1225
atcreepc1275
to steal one's wayc1385
glide1393
atslikec1400
fleetc1400
flinch1563
outsteala1586
leer1586
shift1594
shab1699
slive1707
ghost1833
to oil out1945
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi 479 May no grysliche gost glyde þer hit shadeweþ.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16492 He kest þe penis on þe flore, and son a-wai he glad.
a1400–50 Alexander 358 Þis grete god full of grace sall glide to þi chambre.
c1485 Inscription Carlisle Cathedral in Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 64 Her by prayers fendys ovt farn [i.e. out of Farne] glad.
1634 A. Huish in MS Bodl. Eng. Poet. e.56 132 O holy Spirit..Vouchsafe into our soules to glide.
1736 Earl of Orrery Let. 18 Mar. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 247 You see, Curll, like his friend the Devil, glides through all key-holes.
1847 M. Howitt Ballads 393 And the Holy Mother of Jesus Glid in with footsteps light.
1850 D. G. Mitchell Reveries of Bachelor 47 He takes up his hat and glides out stealthful as a cat.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 148 A great dog-fox as red as the fir-stems through which he glides.
a. Used in poetry for: To pass from one place to another, to go or come. Also with adverbs forth, up, down, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
the world > movement > progressive motion > move along [verb (intransitive)]
goeOE
lithec900
nimOE
fare971
shakeOE
strikea1000
gangOE
gengOE
seekc1000
glidea1275
wevec1300
hove1390
drevea1400
sway?a1400
wainc1540
discoursea1547
yede1563
trot1612
to get along1683
locomove1792
locomote1831
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > glide down
glidea1275
slenta1400
delabiate1632
delabe1657
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 618 in Old Eng. Misc. 136 Drunken mon..Gef him þe weie reme and let him ford gliden.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9738 Muche folc him after glæd [c1300 Otho glod].
c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 193 Forth vp on his wey he glood [v.r. rood], As spark out of the bronde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 20830 Fourti dais in erd he badd, Ar he vp till his fadir glad.
a1400 Sir Perc. 466 Forthirmore ganne he glyde Tille a chambir.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 677 Þen glydez forth god, þe god-mon hym folȝez.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7442 At morne besyde þe way we glade To þe next kirke, messe to here.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 108 So galy in gere As he glydys.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iv. 12 With swyft pays thai on thare message glaid.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2996 The lady..glod on fyll gayly.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 484 He is the gayest in geir, that euer on ground glaid.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D5v Like sparke of fire that from the anduile glode . View more context for this quotation
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)]
glidec1275
acoupc1380
lightc1400
grate1525
to strike home1891
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge missile [verb (intransitive)] > travel through air
glidec1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 877 Heo letten to-gliden [c1300 Otho Hii lette þo glide] gares swiþe scarpe.
13.. K. Alis. 1355 A brod gavelock he lette glide.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 5160 On his helme he him smot, Þe ax glod, god it wot.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 848 Þorw scheld, haberke, & aketoun þat sper him gan to glyde.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 717 He felte a coold swerd sodeynly glyde.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 1183 The stroke glode down by his bake.
c1450 Guy Warw. (C.) 4914 Hys spere thorow the body glode.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. vii. 156 The swerd, wyghtly stokit, or than was glaid Throu owt hys cost.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 30 He trembl'd ev'ry Limb, and felt a Smart, As if cold Steel had glided through his Heart. (Echoing Chaucer Knt.'s T. 717.)]
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position
fallOE
to fall downc1175
torple?c1225
glidec1275
overthrowc1330
downfallc1350
swaya1400
reversea1470
twine1600
to go down1697
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 402 Leteð the Grickisca gliden [c1300 Otho glide] to grunde.
?1370 Robt. Cicyle 60 Y felle in pryde, As the aungelle that can of hevyn glyde.
a1400 Coer de L. 5306 Eyther stede to grounde glode, And brake her nekkes.
a1400 Sir Perc. 2116 Righte there appone the faire molde The ryng owte glade.
c1460 Launfal 575 Another cours togedere they rod, That syr Launfal helm of glod.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > glance or look quickly
glent1303
gliffc1330
gleam1340
blenka1375
keekc1405
glidec1425
gliffen1489
runa1500
glish1570
glance1582
to glance one's eye, look1590
blink1592
squint1610
reflect1611
teet1710
glisk1720
glint1888
c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 2099 The childe lette hys [eyen] glyede Oppon hys maystyr al asyde.
5.
a. To slide, move unobstructedly over a polished surface. Also: †to slip, lose one's footing on ice or muddy ground (obsolete); to slide on ice as a sport (dialect).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > miss one's footing > slip
slide?c1225
glidec1290
slip1530
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide
slidderc897
slidea950
slitherc1200
slep?a1400
slithec1450
slivec1450
rutsel1481
slip1530
slipper1585
glibber1598
slur1617
glide1674
slather1809
scoot1838
sluther1854
slade1895
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 212/430 For heo [the bridge] was narovȝ, and slider, and heiȝ, þat he ne scholde him so bitelle, Ȝif þat he glufte [v.r. glide] in ani half, þat he ne fulle in-to helle.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 4 The Laplanders gliding upon the ice.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 255/2 One surface glides over the other limited by the ligaments.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Glide, to slide on the ice.
b. To slip away, elude one's grasp, like something greasy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a person or slip away from
aglya1250
outsteala1325
glide?1510
slip1513
betrumpa1522
to give (one) the slip1567
to get by ——1601
outslip1616
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1653
elude1667
to tip (a person) the picks1673
bilk1679
to tip (a person) the pikes1688
to give one the drop1709
jouk1812
double1819
sneak1819
shirk1837
duck1896
?1510 T. More in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. f.iv The pleasur which thyne yuell wark doth contayne Glideth his wey thou mast hym not restrane.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 281. ¶7 It glided through the Fingers like a smooth piece of Ice.
1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 26 They do not always find..that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief's hand.
6. To pass lightly and without interruption along or over a surface. Also transferred of the eye, the mind, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > scan or look over > of the eye
run1664
glide1822
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. July 35/1 Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents, are for the eye to glide over soley.
1830 C. Lamb Let. 22 Jan. (1935) III. 242 The light paragraphs must be glid over by the proper eye.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxv. 284 The eye..ought to glide, along the basic rolls to take measurement of their length.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vi. 119 His hand glided from the face and rested on the young man's shoulder.
7. In various immaterial applications.† b. Of the Holy Ghost: = proceed v. Obsolete.
a. Of time, one's life, etc.: To pass gently and imperceptibly. Also with along, away, †forth, on, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [verb (intransitive)] > imperceptibly or unobserved
glidea1325
slip1564
steal1592
escape1836
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3460 Quiles ðis daiges for[ð] ben gliden.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 120 Hyne glydis all thy tyme that heir is.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xviii. 143 The hours glide along very smoothly.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. vii. 121 My life glided on as did my wherry—silently and rapidly.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 19 Two serene and innocent years had glided away.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues x, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 67 Here life ever should glide..beside thee gently away.
ΚΠ
a1225 Juliana 2 Ant o þes haligastes þat glideð of ham baðen.
c1320 Cast. Love 1454 Þe Holy Gost þat glit of hem bo.
c. to glide into: to pass by imperceptible degrees into (a condition or state); to fall insensibly into (doing something). Said also of a species, etc.: To shade off insensibly into, have no clear demarcation from (something else).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into
slidea1398
growc1460
wear1555
accrue1586
ripen1611
shuffle1635
melt1651
steal1660
spawn1677
verge1757
to glide into1800
shade1819
evolve?1831
shadow1839
grade1892
1800 Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 391 Muscle, ligament, and tendon, seem to glide almost imperceptibly into each other.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 22 I suffer one moment to glide into another.
1840 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VIII. lxii. 358 All feelings of hostility..glide into those of peculiar courtesy.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 41 I have glided on into telling you the secret.
1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. ii. 282 The peasant proprietor soon glided hopelessly into debt.
d. Phonetics. to glide on to: (of a consonant or vowel) to be uttered continuously with (the following sound).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [verb]
to glide on to1774
1774 [see sense 8].
1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. iii. 57 A short accented vowel is in English always followed by a consonant on to which it glides.
8. transitive. = to cause to glide (in different senses). Also †to glide away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move along smoothly
glide1834
skate1883
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. iv. 17) 53 Silly are they that think to glide away their groans with games, and their cares with cards, &c.
1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 48 They sound i, but glide it so imperceptibly into the following vowel that it cannot form a distinct syllable.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. I. 299 Enjoying the..light airs which began to play on the surface of the water, and to glide the vessel quietly on her course.
1893 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 128 Ferdie glides the graceful Louise through the room in poetic motion.
1897 W. Anderson On Surg. Treatm. Lupus 14 The raw surface may be covered in by gliding portions of detached integument from an adjacent part.
9. Crystallography. intransitive. Of particles in a crystal: to move, be displaced. Also of a crystal: to undergo glide. Cf. glide n. 5.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal irregularities > crystal irregularities (glide) [verb (intransitive)]
glide1895
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. i. 7 The particles..aligned on all lines parallel to the edge e have..glided into new positions in the crystal-block.
1924 A. E. H. Tutton Nat. Hist. Crystals xviii. 215 Many of the softer crystallised substances develop the property of permitting one layer to glide over another by gentle side pressure with a knife blade.
1938 W. A. Wooster Text-bk. Crystal Physics ii. 49 The crystal glides on the (0112) plane in the [0111] direction.
1970 A. Kelly & R. A. Hendricks Crystallogr. vi. 169 Sapphire crystals can be made to glide at room temperature under a pressure of 25,000 atm.
10. Cricket. intransitive. To make the glide stroke (see glide n. 1b).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of stroke
chop1776
mow1844
crump1850
poke1851
cut1857
swipe1857
glance1898
glide1899
cart1903
nibble1926
on-drive1930
slash1955
cover-drive1960
push1963
1899 Daily News 22 July 4/2 Men were then less apt to ‘glance and glide’, like The Brook, and K. S. Ranjitsinhji.
1927 T. E. Casson Century of Roundels 17 Ranjitsinhji, when he glides, Stands at the crease in posture cringy.
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v.OE- centre-page
- centre-part
- centre-parted
- centre-right
- centre-weighted
- centre-zero
- centrebit
- centreboard
- centreboard boat
- chamberhand
- chambering
- chamberings
- chamberkeeping
- chamberlain
- chamberlain ayre
- chamberlaincy
- chamberlainic
- chamberlainism
- chamberlainite
- chamberlainization
- chamberlainizing
- chamberlainry
- chamberlains
- chamberlainship
- chamberlet