Usually means: Smooth movement through air, water.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. glide: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glide, glide: Wordnik
  7. glide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glide: Wiktionary
  9. glide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glide, glide: Dictionary.com
  13. glide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Glide (API), Glide (Free Above), Glide (automobile company), Glide (flight), Glide (linguistics), Glide (software), Glide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glide: Rhymezone
  19. glide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. glide: Free Dictionary
  22. glide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. glide: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glide: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glide: Game Dictionary
  2. glide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. glide: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLIDE: Acronym Finder
  2. glide: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glide: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glide, glide: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. glide: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Glide: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glide: Chapters in the Sky
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
verb:  (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to glide.
verb:  (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
noun:  The act of gliding.
noun:  (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
noun:  (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
noun:  A bird, the glede or kite.
noun:  A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.
noun:  The joining of two sounds without a break.
noun:  A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
noun:  A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

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