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ALL meanings of glided

glide
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  • noun glided (US) Simple past tense and past participle of glide. 1
  • verb without object glided to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance, as a flying bird, a boat, or a skater. 1
  • verb without object glided to pass by gradual or unobservable change (often followed by along, away, by, etc.). 1
  • verb without object glided to move quietly or stealthily or without being noticed (usually followed by in, out, along, etc.). 1
  • verb without object glided Aeronautics. to move in the air, especially at an easy angle downward, with less engine power than for level flight, solely by the action of air currents and gravity, or by momentum already acquired. to fly in a glider. 1
  • verb without object glided Music. to pass from one note to another without a break. 1
  • verb with object glided to cause to glide. 1
  • noun glided a gliding movement, as in dancing. 1
  • noun glided a dance marked by such movements. 1
  • noun glided Music. slur (def 10a). 1
  • noun glided Phonetics. a speech sound having the characteristics of both a consonant and a vowel, especially w in wore and y in your, and, in some analyses, r in road and l in load; semivowel. a transitional sound heard during the articulation linking two phonemically contiguous sounds, as the y- sound often heard between the i and e of quiet. 1
  • noun glided a calm stretch of shallow, smoothly flowing water, as in a river. 1
  • noun glided an act or instance of gliding. 1
  • noun glided Metallurgy. slip1 (def 49). 1
  • noun glided a smooth metal plate, as on the bottom of the feet of a chair or table, to facilitate moving and to prevent scarring of floor surfaces. 1
  • noun glided a metal track in which a drawer, shelf, etc., moves in or out. 1
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