glide : Idioms & Phrases

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glide by

  • verb pass by
    elapse; go along; lapse; slip away; go by; slip by; pass; slide by.
    • three years elapsed
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glide path

  • noun the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
    glide path; approach path; approach.
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glide slope

  • noun the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
    glide path; approach path; approach.
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glide-bomb

  • verb bomb by gliding
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gliding bacteria

  • noun bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste
    myxobacterium; myxobacter; myxobacteria; slime bacteria.
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gliding joint

  • noun a freely moving joint in which the articulations allow only gliding motions
    articulatio plana.
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hang glide

  • verb fly by means of a hang glider
    hang glide; soar.
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hang gliding

  • noun gliding in a hang glider
  • verb fly by means of a hang glider
    hang glide; soar.
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Voice glide

  • (Pron.), the brief and obscure neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in able . See Glide, n., 2.
Webster 1913