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[ glahy -der ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈglaɪ dər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.
a porch swing made of an upholstered seat suspended from a steel framework by links or springs.
a person or thing that glides.
a person who pilots a glider.
Origin of glider late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at glide, -er1
Words nearby glider glib ice, Glidden, glide, glidepath, glide plane, glider , glide slope, glide time, gliding, gliding bacteria, gliding joint
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Example sentences from the Web for glider Occasionally someone climbed over it or crashed through it or dug under it, or made himself a glider and flew through it.
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Lilienthal, “the Glider King,” was the first person to make repeated, successful flights on a glider .
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The Daily Beast rounds up seven more, from the Glider King to the flying taxi inventor.
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It is also the principle which governs the airplane or glider , whose planes are kept at a definite angle to the air current.
The Romance of Aircraft | Lawrence Yard Smith
This was like hunting birds on the wing: too abrupt a movement of the glider , and the game was lost.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | Various
This glider can fairly easily be made into an aeroplane and worked with a propeller.
Toy-Making in School and Home | Ruby Kathleen Polkinghorne and Mabel Irene Rutherford Polkinghorne
As early as 1909, when he was a naval lieutenant, he had experimented with a glider on Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 | Walter Raleigh.
Now start and run forward at a moderately rapid gait, one man at each end of the glider assisting you.
Flying Machines | W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
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British Dictionary definitions for glider noun an aircraft capable of gliding and soaring in air currents without the use of an engine See also sailplane
a person or thing that glides
another name for flying phalanger
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