The figure skater glided gracefully over the ice. 花样滑冰者在冰上优雅地滑行。
Youth glided past without our awareness. 青春在我们不知不觉中逝去。
Can We Glide Now? 我们现在能滑行吗?
glide
[ noun ]
a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
<noun.communication>
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
<noun.act> his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope
the activity of flying a glider
<noun.act> [ verb ]
move smoothly and effortlessly
<verb.motion>
fly in or as if in a glider plane
<verb.motion>
cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
<verb.motion>
Glide \Glide\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The glede or kite.
Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gliding}.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.] 1. 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.
The river glideth at his own sweet will. --Wordsworth.
2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
3. (A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Glide \Glide\, n. 1. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line. --Thomson.
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away. --Shak.
2. (Phon.) 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, [sect][sect] 19, 161, 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, [sect][sect] 18, 97, 191).
Note: The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 17, 95.
3. (A["e]ronautics) Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Glede \Glede\ (gl[=e]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[eth]a, Sw. glada. Cf. {Glide}, v. i.] (Zo["o]l.) The common European kite ({Milvus ictinus}). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also {glead}, {gled}, {gleed}, {glade}, and {glide}.]
It may stir almost imperceptibly, then glide away.
Startled residents of the rural Quebec community of Ste-Marie-de-Monnoir saw flashing lights glide over a field and out of sight.
If John is really a screen writer, if he's really written all those scripts, his parents want to know why don't they ever see his name glide by in the movie credits at their local theater.
Young "was apparently able to glide down after the collision, but the other fellow fell from a great distance," said Nick Stager, director of Okaloosa County Emergency Medical Services.
The pilot quickly dropped the banner and tried to glide back toward the runway for a crash landing, but clipped the top of a helicopter which had just landed on a taxiway, he said.
The balloon's pilot, Ron Griffin, then cut the rope on which the hang glider was suspended 30 feet below his craft, sending the glider into a spinning 200-foot nose dive before it leveled out and began its downward glide.
In addition, the Soviet shuttle can use jet engines in its tail, giving it more maneuverability in landing than its American counterpart, which can only glide onto a runway.
The British-made camouflage coveralls are made of modacrylic, a synthetic fiber that allows chemicals to be dispersed and forces them to glide over the fabric.
Long after it has sunk below the horizon, feluccas continue to glide and swirl on the river below like swallows on a twilight hunt. 10.30pm.
No one has seen it glide silently from its perch after dark to go a-hunting.
A long-established classic mid-market model, good value, reliable carve and glide.
A President equipped with the line-item veto would be the best insurance that the budget deficit would continue to glide downward.
Electricity flows through superconductors without resistance, like a swimmer who could take one stroke and glide through the water forever.
Even when wondering 'Is Norman MacLean an outdoor version of Norman Rockwell?', we glow as the images glide past in this river trip through a never-never America.