glide

glide
1. verb /ɡlɑɪd/
a) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.

b) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
2. noun /ɡlɑɪd/
a) The act of gliding.
b) Semivowel
See Also: glider, gliding

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