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glide

Glide is a 5 letter word which starts with the letter G and ends with the letter E for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The glede or kite.
(v. i.) To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise violence or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily or with a smooth silent motion as a river in its channel a bird in the air a skater over ice.
(v. i.) To pass with a glide as the voice.
(n.) The act or manner of moving smoothly swiftly and without labor or obstruction.
(n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation // 19161 162). Also (by Bell and others) the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element in a class of diphthongal vowels or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation // 1897 191).

Syllable Information

The word glide is a 5 letter word that has 1 syllable . The syllable division for glide is: glide


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