glide
(glīd)
[Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan.]
verb: glid·ed, glid·ing, glides.
intransitive verb
- To move in a smooth, effortless manner: a submarine gliding through the water. See synonyms at slide
- To move silently and furtively.
- To occur or pass imperceptibly.
- To fly without propulsion. Used of an aircraft.
- Music To blend one tone into the next; slur.
- Linguistics To articulate a glide in speech.
transitive verb
- To cause to move or pass smoothly, silently, or imperceptibly.
noun
- The act of gliding.
- Music A slur.
- Linguistics
- The transitional sound produced by passing from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of another.
- See semivowel
sem·i·vow·el
(sĕḿĭ-voúəl)
noun
- A sound that has the quality of one of the high vowels, as (ē) or (ōō), and that functions as a consonant before or after vowels, as the initial sounds of yell and well and the final sounds of coy and cow. Also called glide
