单词 | gliding |
释义 | glidingn. 1. a. The action of glide v. in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > moving glidinga1398 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] runninga1398 goutc1400 stream14.. flowingc1440 watercourse1552 current1555 fluxc1600 gliding1600 fluor1642 currency1657 lapse1667 shoot1799 flowage1830 come1862 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > smoothly gliding1644 swimmingness1836 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > passage through the air > smooth glide1812 gliding1856 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xcv. 1245 The serpent..crepeþ wiþ priuy pases and glidynges. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/1 Glydynge, serpcio. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xl. 122 Making great glydings, and hitting his dewclawes upon the grounde. 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. G1v With a silent gliding, A Christall brooke ran. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. viii. 63 It [light] will follow the nature of grosser bodies, and haue glidinges like them. 1794 W. Jones tr. Inst. Hindu Law vi. §63 The glidings of this vital spirit through ten thousand millions of uterine passages. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xiv. 8 The loveliness at times we see In momentary gliding. 1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 93 Gliding is the simple movement of one articular surface upon another. 1856 L. H. Grindon Life ii. 16 The gliding of the clouds before the wind. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiv. 208 A rapid yet easy gliding before the trade winds. b. Crystallography. = glide n. 5; also, the lateral movement of particles that occurs in glide. So gliding-plane = glide-plane n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal irregularities > [noun] > processes causing > glide gliding1886 glide1934 1886 Mineral. Mag. Dec. 82 In every crystal, in addition to..the planes along which slipping accompanied by a rotation of certain of the molecules occurs (gliding-planes), there is a..set of ‘structure-planes’. 1938 W. A. Wooster Text-bk. Crystal Physics ii. 42 Gliding in crystals is restricted to certain crystallographically defined planes and directions. 1942 M. P. Billings Struct. Geol. ii. 26 Gliding is of two types, translation-gliding and twin-gliding. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 775/1 Plastic deformation occurs as a result of the mutual gliding of these planes over one another. 2. Aeronautics. Flight which is not dependent on engine power; the action of flying in this way. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > gliding and hang-gliding > [adjective] gliding1896 1896 O. Chanute Diary 23 June in Wright Papers (1953) I. 641 It is a gliding but not a soaring mach[in]e and little is to be expected from it. 1922 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. ‘Gliding’ is no longer an adequate name for the new form of flight which has been discovered. 1960 C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane 197 The historical assessment of true gliding. Compounds C1. General attributive (sense 2), as gliding angle, gliding contest, gliding distance, gliding flight, gliding school. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 103/1 Reducing gliding flight to regular practice. 1904 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 46 245 Mr. Wilbur Wright found that if the hollowness [of the plane] was seriously increased, the centre of effort, instead of continuing to move forward as the gliding angle was diminished, actually moved backwards again. 1910 Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 3/3 To establish a gliding school at Hockley, in Essex. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 43 Can I see a good landing-ground within gliding distance? 1922 Daily Mail (Continental ed.) 19 Oct. The third day of the gliding contest at Itford Hill, near Lewes, Sussex. 1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 8 Gliding angle, the angle between the flight path in a glide and the horizontal. C2. gliding-boat n. a hydroplane. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > hydroplane, hydrofoil, or hydroglider hydroplane1904 gliding-boat1906 skimmer1909 hydroglider1921 hydrofoil1959 thunderboat1967 Jetfoil1972 1906 Sci. Amer. 22 Sept. 211/1 The term gliding machine (meaning soaring machine) should..be dropped from the nomenclature of aeronautics, as it is liable to be confused with the hydroplane or gliding boat, which is also a gliding machine. gliding machine n. = glider n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > glider > [noun] gliding machine1896 glider1897 aerodone1907 soarer1909 aviette1912 sailplane1922 rotochute1946 1896Gliding machine [see sense 2]. 1898 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 22 Jan. 18390/2 It was a great deal more difficult to control any gliding machine on the ground than when the operator was in the air. 1910 C. C. Turner Aerial Navigation of To-day xx. 258 Montgomery..built a full-sized gliding-machine with movable parts. gliding path n. = glide path n. at glide n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1930 Proc. IRE 18 833 A special radiobeam..is so oriented..as to define the proper gliding path which..will permit..landings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). glidingadj. 1. a. That glides (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > [adjective] > of movement of glidingc1420 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > smoothly gliding1603 soft1667 sedate1684 joltless1808 slithy1855 c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 613 On a glydyng serpent rydyng a gret pas. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. x. 610 I commend a gliding, an obscure and reposed life. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 27 I may bee driv'n to curle up this gliding prose into a rough Sotadic. 1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 107 Transitory things which are as gliding as the stream of a swift current. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia 195 The rolling Flood the gliding Navy bore. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 16 The willow tufted bank, the gliding sail. 1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xii. 112 These drawbacks have been overcome by the ‘gliding’ coupler. 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Gliding joint, a form of diarthrosis in which the articular surfaces of the bones are nearly flat, and have only a sliding motion between each other. 1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §23 It is often difficult to draw the line between gliding and fixed configuration. b. spec. in Heraldry. (See quot.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific movements of heraldic beasts > of serpent gliding1765 1765–87 in M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry Gloss. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) viii. 118 Gliding, or Glissant, used to describe Serpents when moving forwards in Fess. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > smooth and slippery slippera1050 slibbery?c1225 slidderya1250 slidder1398 lubric1490 slid1513 slippery1551 icy?1552 slipperous1585 glib1594 gliding1594 slicked1594 glibbery1601 lubrical1602 slape1671 slithery1825 slithy1855 butter-smooth1868 slick1901 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 401 Both the childs body, and the way also is thereby made more gliding and slippery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1398adj.c1420 |
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