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- noun Plural form of
glider .
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Examples
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The rest of the day I spent on the hammock in the sun gently crisping and watching the gliders from the RAF Fairford airshow race eachother lazily over our garden.
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A new deal with Lotus, which supplies Palo Alto-based Tesla with "gliders" - partly assembled Roadsters missing the powertrain - ends in December 2011 and will give it enough to make 2,400 cars.
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010
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A new deal with Lotus, which supplies Palo Alto-based Tesla with "gliders" - partly assembled Roadsters missing the powertrain - ends in December 2011 and will give it enough to make 2,400 cars.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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A new deal with Lotus, which supplies Palo Alto-based Tesla with "gliders" - partly assembled Roadsters missing the powertrain - ends in December 2011 and will give it enough to make 2,400 cars.
San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 2010
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This studentship will investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of these regions of low oxygen using a variety of approaches, including deployment for the first time in UK coastal waters of "gliders" - self contained underwater vehicles that can continuously measure oxygen, salinity and temperature throughout the water column in selected regions for periods of many weeks.
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The parents of the modern flying machine were the gliders, that is, the men who launched themselves into the air on wings or planes of their own devising.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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Last month, Peter Winsor, associate professor of physical oceanography, and Andrew Seitz, assistant professor of fisheries, tested the use of autonomous underwater vehicles, called gliders, for tracking tagged fish.
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Based on this timeline, it contracted Lotus to build bodies for the Roadster (called gliders, they include the shell of the cars without the powertrains) through March 2011.
VentureBeat Camille Ricketts 2010
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A report came back from the commission "staff" not to let the fliers use the park because the horse people did not like the idea of gliders flying around their horses.
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Last month, Peter Winsor, associate professor of physical oceanography, and Andrew Seitz, assistant professor of fisheries, tested the use of autonomous underwater vehicles, called gliders, for tracking tagged fish.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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