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glide(2) (iou)



glide verb. .
[Old English glidan = Old Frisian glida, Old Saxon glidan (Dutch glijden), Old High German glitan (German gleiten), from West Germanic.]
verb intrans. Pass from one place to another or change position by a smooth continuous movement, esp. without effort or difficulty or perceptible means of locomotion. OE.
Dryden [The Snake] in some secret Cranny slowly glides. J. Wilson She glides away like a lambent flame. W. H. Bartlett The little stream glided and rippled by.
b. Of an aircraft: fly without engine-power. E20.
verb intrans. Move quietly or stealthily; steal into, out of, a place. ME.
D. G. Mitchell He..glides out stealthful as a cat. C. Kingsley A great dog-fox as red as the fir-stems through which he glides.
verb intrans. Pass from one place to another, go, come. poet. ME-L16.
Spenser Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode.
verb intrans. Slide; (now dial.) slide on ice as a sport. Formerly also, slip. ME.
J. Scheffer The Laplanders gliding upon the ice.
b. Slip away, elude one's grasp. E16.
Addison It glided through the Fingers like a smooth Piece of Ice.
Of time, life, etc.: pass gently and imperceptibly along, away, etc. ME.
Disraeli Two serene and innocent years had glided away.
verb trans. Cause to glide. M17.
A. C. Gunter Ferdie glides the graceful Louise through the room in poetic motion.
b. Traverse in a glider. M20.
verb intrans. Pass lightly and without interruption along or over a surface. E19.
glide into pass gradually into (a condition or state), pass unconsciously into (doing something).
George Eliot His hand glided from the face and rested on the young man's shoulder. transf.: C. Lamb Books of quick interest..are for the eye to glide over only.
verb intrans. Crystallography. Of units in a crystal: be displaced, esp. along an atomic plane. Also, of a crystal: undergo glide. Cf. GLIDE noun 4. L19.
gliding-plane = glide-plane below.
verb intrans. & trans. = GLANCE verb 8b. L19.
Comb.: glide-plane Crystallography (a) a plane in a crystal along which lateral deformation (slip) may occur; (b) a plane of symmetry such that reflection in the plane and translation parallel to it produce a lattice congruent with the original; glide-twin Crystallography a twin crystal produced by the gliding of adjacent layers of a crystal lattice over one another; glide-twinning the formation of glide-twins.
gliding ppl adjective (a) that glides;
gliding possum = flying phalanger s.v. FLYING ppl adjective; (b) = GLISSANT: LME.
glidingly adverb L18.

Hiiraan (tourism)


Hiiraan is a province of Somalia.