Какво означава glide на английски?

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glide Значение & определение

0 to move easily without stopping and without effort or noise:
- She came gliding gracefully into the ballroom in a long, flowing gown.
- I love my new pen - it just glides across/over the paper.
- Some people glide effortlessly through life with no real worries.
1 to fly by floating on air currents instead of using power from wings or an engine:
- We saw a condor gliding high above the mountains.
- Unlike other spacecraft, the shuttle can glide back through the atmosphere, land safely, and be reused.
2 a long, easy, smooth movement across a surface that makes no noise:
- Every dancer wants the glorious glide of a Fred Astaire or a Ginger Rogers.
3 the action of floating on air currents, rather than using power from wings or an engine:
- He reached the canyon's edge and went into his glide.
4 a sound that is similar to a vowel but marks the start of a syllable:
- In English, the sound /j/ in "yes" or "due" is a glide.
5 to move easily and continuously, as if without effort:
- She glided along on her skates.

She didn't exactly walk - it was more of a glide.
His gait is a glide, a smooth forward motion.
It was more of a glide than a flight.
As a glide ended, the pilot was supposed to lower himself to a vertical position and land on his feet.
There is some evidence for treating [v] as a glide in Modern Hebrew.
Lenited (phonemically) nonpalatalized voiced bilabial stops are realized as a glide [w] in Northern Irish and as a fricative [v] in Southern Irish.
What is the difference between a glide and a diphthong?
In the case of the various gliding events affecting liquids, we may assume that the vocalic outcome reflects a segment's secondary resonance characteristic.