Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light engineless aircraft designed to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult.
- noun A swinging couch suspended from a vertical frame.
- noun A device that aids gliding.
- noun Any of several arboreal marsupials that glide through the air by extending large folds of skin on the sides of the body between the forelegs and the hind legs, especially a flying phalanger.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which glides.
- A Middle English variant of
glitter . - noun In aëronaut, a gliding-machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, glides.
- noun a heavier-than-air flying machine similar to an airplane, but without an engine. It is typically towed to a high altitide by a powered aircraft and then glides to earth with no other source of power.
- noun a type of seat used on porches or in gardens, which is mounted on a frame so that it may glide forward and backward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; asailplane . - noun A
pilot of glider aircraft. - noun Anything that
glides , especially an animal or aircraft. - noun mathematics In the Game of Life
cellular automaton , a particularconfiguration of fivecells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces
Etymologies
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Examples
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Therefore, the bird glider is obviously a miniature model of the airplanes the Egyptians were flying during the Old Kingdom.
Their logic is infallible! zhukora1 2008
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The glider is an appropriate emblem on many levels.
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The glider is the simplest Life pattern that moves, and the most instantly recognizable of all Life patterns.
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We must now clear the landing zone of a US glider from the Germans.
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The wind gently buffets you and you can feel the currents you ride, as if the glider is a part of you, as if the wings were part of you.
Jackson Hole Benjamin Percy 2011
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So I got up and I jumped onto my cardio glider, which is a full-body, full-exercise machine.
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight Jill Bolte Taylor 2008
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So I got up and I jumped onto my cardio glider, which is a full-body, full-exercise machine.
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight Jill Bolte Taylor 2008
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So I got up and I jumped onto my cardio glider, which is a full-body, full-exercise machine.
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight Jill Bolte Taylor 2008
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He wanted to break a glider record and he wanted to do that in Argentina -- Wolf.
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There's also another piece of equipment called a glider out there.
garyth123 commented on the word glider
the smallest spaceship in conway's game of life
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December 7, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word glider
Horizontal operating units which have one sash fixed while the other glides open and shut horizontally.
January 9, 2018