| 单词 | glide |
| 释义 | glide (once / 308 pages) 1vn 2n To glide is to sail or skate with ease across a surface. Your favorite thing about winter might be watching the skaters in the park glide silently on the ice-covered lake. A sled glides down a snowy hill, and a kayak glides across a silvery pond. Another way to glide is to soar in the air: your paper airplane, if you make it the right way, will glide all the way across the room, and a hawk can glide through the sky without seeming to move its wings. A different kind of glide is linguistic, a sound that's pronounced like a vowel but functions as a consonant. WORD FAMILYglide: glided, glider, glides, gliding+/glider: gliders/gliding: glidings USAGE EXAMPLESIs there anything better than the Met’s Viennese chandeliers gliding to the ceiling as the lights dim? New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) At still others, she establishes patterns that change as your eye glides across them, creating gentle visual turbulence. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Her second-eldest, Stephen, turned me on to Motown when I watched him doing northern soul glides in the living room to a Supremes soundtrack. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v move smoothly and effortlessly Hypo|Hyper skid, slew, slide, slip, slue move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner coastmove effortlessly; by force of gravity skitterglide easily along a surface snakemove smoothly and sinuously, like a snake skatemove along on skates plane, skimtravel on the surface of water surf, surfboardride the waves of the sea with a surfboard body-surfride the crest of a wave without a surfboard snowboardglide down a snow-covered slope while standing on a board submarinemove forward or under in a sliding motion skidslide without control side-slipslide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis freewheelcoast in a vehicle using the freewheel ice skatemove along on ice skates figure skatedance on skates roller skatetravel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles skateboardride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom Rollerbladetravel on shoes with a single line of rubber wheels attached to their soles aquaplaneride on an aquaplane windsurfride standing on a surfboard with an attached sail, on water aquaplanerise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly Hyper displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3v fly in or as if in a glider plane Hypo|Hyper kite soar or fly like a kite sailplane, soarfly a plane without an engine aviate, fly, pilot operate an airplane 4n the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it Syn|Hypo|Hyper coast, slide sideslip, skid, slip an unexpected slide snowboardingthe act of sliding down a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard motion, move, movement the act of changing location from one place to another 5n the activity of flying a glider 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring hang gliding gliding in a hang glider paragliding, parasailinggliding in a parasail flight, flying an instance of traveling by air n a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant Syn|Hypo|Hyper semivowel palatal a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast') phone, sound, speech sound (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
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