Meaning of "glide" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GLIDE

Old English glīdan; related to Old High German glītan.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GLIDE

glide  [ɡlaɪd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLIDE

Glide is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb glide in English.

WHAT DOES GLIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of glide in the English dictionary

The first definition of glide in the dictionary is to move or cause to move easily without jerks or hesitations. Other definition of glide is to pass slowly or without perceptible change. Glide is also to cause to come into land without engine power, or to land in this way.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GLIDE

PRESENT

Present

I glide

you glide

he/she/it glides

we glide

you glide

they glide

Present continuous

I am gliding

you are gliding

he/she/it is gliding

we are gliding

you are gliding

they are gliding

Present perfect

I have glided

you have glided

he/she/it has glided

we have glided

you have glided

they have glided

Present perfect continuous

I have been gliding

you have been gliding

he/she/it has been gliding

we have been gliding

you have been gliding

they have been gliding

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I glided

you glided

he/she/it glided

we glided

you glided

they glided

Past continuous

I was gliding

you were gliding

he/she/it was gliding

we were gliding

you were gliding

they were gliding

Past perfect

I had glided

you had glided

he/she/it had glided

we had glided

you had glided

they had glided

Past perfect continuous

I had been gliding

you had been gliding

he/she/it had been gliding

we had been gliding

you had been gliding

they had been gliding

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will glide

you will glide

he/she/it will glide

we will glide

you will glide

they will glide

Future continuous

I will be gliding

you will be gliding

he/she/it will be gliding

we will be gliding

you will be gliding

they will be gliding

Future perfect

I will have glided

you will have glided

he/she/it will have glided

we will have glided

you will have glided

they will have glided

Future perfect continuous

I will have been gliding

you will have been gliding

he/she/it will have been gliding

we will have been gliding

you will have been gliding

they will have been gliding

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would glide

you would glide

he/she/it would glide

we would glide

you would glide

they would glide

Conditional continuous

I would be gliding

you would be gliding

he/she/it would be gliding

we would be gliding

you would be gliding

they would be gliding

Conditional perfect

I would have glide

you would have glide

he/she/it would have glide

we would have glide

you would have glide

they would have glide

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been gliding

you would have been gliding

he/she/it would have been gliding

we would have been gliding

you would have been gliding

they would have been gliding

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you glide
we let´s glide
you glide

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to glide

Past participle

glided

Present Participle

gliding

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GLIDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «glide» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of glide

coast · float · fly · ghost · run · sail · skim · slide · slip · soar

TRANSLATION OF GLIDE

Find out the translation of glide to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of glide from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «glide» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 滑行
• Translator English - Spanish: deslizarse
• English: glide
• Translator English - Hindi: ग्लाइड
• Translator English - Arabic: أنسل
• Translator English - Russian: скольжения
• Translator English - Portuguese: deslizar
• Translator English - Bengali: পিছলে পড়া
• Translator English - French: glisser
• Translator English - Malay: Meluncur
• Translator English - German: gleiten
• Translator English - Japanese: なめらかに動く
• Translator English - Korean: 미끄러지듯 움직이다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyepetake
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lướt
• Translator English - Tamil: சறுக்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: सरकणे
• Translator English - Turkish: yarı ünlü
• Translator English - Italian: scivolare
• Translator English - Polish: schodzenia
• Translator English - Ukrainian: ковзання
• Translator English - Romanian: alunecare
• Translator English - Greek: ολίσθηση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gly
• Translator English - Swedish: glid
• Translator English - Norwegian: glid

10 QUOTES WITH «GLIDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word glide.

1

Giacomo Casanova

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

2

Kid Cudi

I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me.

3

John Dryden

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

4

Tea Leoni

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

5

Simon Mainwaring

Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

6

Jake Pavelka

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

7

Bryan Procter

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

8

Debi Thomas

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

9

Debi Thomas

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

10

Benjamin F. Wade

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLIDE»

Discover the use of glide in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glide and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Inner Glide: The Tao of Skiing, Snowboarding, and Skwalling

The Inner Glide presents a unique and original practice that will challenge ski enthusiasts, snowboarders, or skwallers, whether experts or beginners, to make the transition from the raw quest for sensation--itself a source of imbalance--to ...

Patrick Thias Balmain, 2007

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact ...

William Langewiesche, 2009

Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction

Moreover, Berber glides can be moraic giving rise to a glide/vowel alternation traditionally called Glide Vocalization. It is shown here that vocalized glides are the result of simultaneously comparing a moraic glide and a nonmoraic glide for ...

Samuel Rosenthall, Laurence Horn, 2013

Management of Common Musculoskeletal Disorders: Physical ...

M — The hands apply distraction along the long axis of the arm, applying a caudal force to the glenohumeral joint. This technique may be interspersed with pendulum exercises. While maintaining traction, one may also apply lateral glide (Fig.

Darlene Hertling, Randolph M. Kessler, 2006

Glide: The Prophet's Revenge

Glide! A. blinding flash followed by a soft pop startled Dr. Magigate. He lurched, teetered on his stool, then fell back with a clatter. Lying on his back, his feet tangled in the stool, it took Magigate several moments to orient himself and verify that ...

Bill Gourgey, 2011

Wreck of the Glide: with recollections of the Fijiis, and of ...

WRECK OF THE GLIDE. CHAPTER I. Departure — Storm — Tropical Calms — Good Hope — New-Zealand — English Whaleships — Trade with the Natives — Their dress — Weapons — Dwellings — War Dance — Visit of Pomare — Ship ...

James Oliver, William Giles Dix, 1848

Clyde the Glide

Clyde Drexler. Michael moved into the starting lineup, too, but not until the third game of the 1980-81 season. We were a young team, with no senior starters. Our starters were Mike and me at forward, sophomore Larry Micheaux at center and ...

Clyde Drexler, 2004

101 Harley-Davidson Evolution Performance Projects

GLIDE. FORKS. Time: 1/2 to 1 hour Tools: Mity-Vac, Phillips screwdriver, fork oil, measuring container (graduated cylinder, baby bottle, or Ratio-Rite cup), and a lift or stand Talent: Tinware: Screamin' Eagle fork oil (optional), new drain screws  ...

Kip Woodring Kenna Love

Cloud Computing -- the Glide OS Story: Solving the Cross ...

Glide Mobile App Version 1.2 (April 26, 2006) Glide l! j 7 9:20 Search Results for - El'y'léll'l - 1? of 2|] ' .5 I a KB I — Glide Glide Glide Personal WebFavo... Photos GEE Glide Music Glide Video Glide Docs _ _~-_- —-—~ n-q— —-glm — I-n-I ...

Donald Leka, Claire Leka, 2013

Transformation Geometry: An Introduction to Symmetry

Classification of Plane Isometries §8.1 Glide Reflections We have classified all the even isometries as translations or rotations. An odd isometry is a reflection or a product of three reflections. Only those odd isometries acabaa where a, b, c are  ...

George E. Martin, 1982

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term glide is used in the context of the following news items.

Glide Memorial's free meal program gets makeover and helping hand

Joann Adams (left) shows Pastor Theon Johnson III the new tilting skillet, part of a months-long, $500,000 makeover of the kitchen and dining ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»

FOLORUNSO ALAKIJA'S GRACEFUL GLIDE at 64

She is a Nigerian oil baroness and currently Africa's richest woman. She holds a pride of place in the Nigeria's fashion industry and inspires the ... «THISDAY Live, Jul 15»

Alleyway Kustoms sacrifices a 1969 Electra Glide

After trying to find a replacement for a 1962 Panhead that I regretted selling, nothing really caught my eye until I came across this 1969 Electra ... «Hot Bike Magazine, Jul 15»

SONG PREMIERE: Sydney Eloise & the Palms – “Too Soon”

Glide Magazine is proud to premiere “Too Soon” off Faces, a track that shows her proficiency for music that borders on timelessness with ... «Glide Magazine, Jul 15»

Crews suppress three fires started by lightning near Tiller, Glide

Two fires ignited about 16 miles northeast of Glide, and one fire was about five miles southwest of Tiller. The three fires were all staffed and ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»

Dar Williams Tunes Up “FM Radio” To Glide (INTERVIEW)

With a songwriting career as long and prolific as Dar Williams', it's not surprising that she's picked up a host of talented musical friends along ... «Glide Magazine, Jul 15»

WU-14 glide vehicle a 'peacemaker' for Asia-Pacific: scholar

Concept art of the WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle, which Zhang believes will be China's superweapon. (Internet photo). Zhang Jiangang ... «WantChinaTimes, Jul 15»

GLIDE's SUNDAY STREETS BLOCK PARTY: A GREAT DAY IN THE …

In conjunction with Sunday Streets in the Tenderloin, GLIDE will be hosting a day of special activities on Ellis Street between Jones and ... «SFStation.com, Jul 15»

Roger Federer survives Sam Groth's barrage to glide into second …

Roger Federer lost his first set at Wimbledon this year - and had to face the second-fastest serve in the tournament's history - but still ... «The Times, Jul 15»

Richard Gasquet, Nick Kyrgios Glide Into Wimbledon's Fourth Round

LONDON – Richard Gasquet and Nick Kyrgios secured a spot in the fourth round with their hard fought victories over higher seed players. «Breitbart News, Jul 15»