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  1. intransitive verb To move in a smooth, effortless manner: a submarine gliding through the water. See Synonyms at slide.
  2. intransitive verb To move silently and furtively.
  3. intransitive verb To occur or pass imperceptibly.
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  • Gargoyles can generally use their wings to fly or glide, and, as a reference to their origins, are often depicted as having a rocky hide, or being capable of turning into stone in one way or another.Gargoyles have featured in several works of fantasy fiction, such as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (Discworld gargoyles) and the Dungeons ; Dragons (D ;D gargoyles) and Rifts role-playing games.
  • He held that glide--until the machine guns began to whip bullets through the rotor blades Ham and Renny yelled, whipped out their superfirers. —  103 - The Mindless Monsters
  • Their sound was like rapid hammer blows The engine stopped Long Tom booted the ship into a flat glide, then looked overside. —  014 - The Monsters
  • The eagle froze dead in mid-glide, the foliage in the trees stopped moving—then the bird jumped back and repeated its swoop: a glitch in the ancient image generator Erno had been watching this stuttering eagle for six months now. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • As an adult, Sister Klein earned trophies in sharpshooting, learned to hang-glide, and rode a motorcycle. —  CourierPostOnline.com - News
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glide:   glided ·  gliding ·  glides
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English gliden (preterit glode, glod, plural gliden, past participle gliden), glide, slide, flow, fly, fall, move, from Anglo-Saxon glīdan (preterit (glād, plural glidon, past participle gliden), glide, slide, = Old Saxon glīdan = OFries. glīda = D. glijden = Middle Low German Low German gliden, glien = Old High German glītan, Middle High German glīten, German gleiten = Swedish glida = Danish glide, glide, slide. Perhaps connected remotely with glad, in its literally sense of ‘smooth.’ Hence glidder, glede.
  2. from glide, v.
 

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