glides is a form of:
Glide
noun
- 1.
- Glide of a plane ការសំកាំង
- 2.
- (MUSIC) Sing a glide ការប្រើសំឡេងខ្ពស់ទាបច្រៀងព្យាង្គតែមួយ
verb — past tense: glided ; past participle: glided ; present participle: gliding ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (To move smoothly and easily, to pass gradually and unnoticed, to move downwards with engines throttled back. smooth, silent movement, (music) sounds made in passing from tone to tone, a sliding movement) ដំណើររអិល, ដំណើររបូត (វត្ថុ) / កន្លែងក្មេង រំអិលខ្លួនលេង, មិនថិតថេរ birds glide ហើរសំកាំង, dancers glide រត់រ៉េវដូចគេហោះ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) ហោះសំកាំង
- 3.
- (MUSIC) (INTRANSITIVE) Singers glide ប្ដូរកម្ពស់សំឡេងដោយឥតបង្អង់សំឡេង
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- Movement of a glider, aeroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.
- 2.
- The glede or kite.
- 3.
- The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
- 4.
- 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. 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.
verb — past tense: glided ; past participle: glided ; present participle: gliding ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
- 1.
- coast, descend, drift, float, flow, fly, slide, slip, slither, soar, waft
- 1.
- we were gliding along in the cance not making a sound on the still water of the lake