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GLIDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of flying a glider
Synonyms:
glide; gliding; sailing; sailplaning; soaring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("gliding" is a kind of...):
flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gliding"):
hang gliding (gliding in a hang glider)
paragliding; parasailing (gliding in a parasail)
Derivation:
glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb glide
Context examples:
I heard a roar from behind us, saw the gliding lines of windows with staring faces and waving handkerchiefs, and then we were off the stones and on to the good white road which curved away in front of us, with the sweep of the green downs upon either side.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She ran frantically, hysterically, straining to the utmost, advertising the effort she was making with every leap: and all the time White Fang slid smoothly away from her silently, without effort, gliding like a ghost over the ground.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
True enough, he had once seen Fanny dance; and it was equally true that he would now have answered for her gliding about with quiet, light elegance, and in admirable time; but, in fact, he could not for the life of him recall what her dancing had been, and rather took it for granted that she had been present than remembered anything about her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A pat and a rub around the ears from the man, and a more prolonged caressing from the woman, and he was away down the trail in front of them, gliding effortlessly over the ground in true wolf fashion.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This day will be enchanting, and happily, the transiting moon will help love along by gliding through the divine-for-Scorpio sign of Pisces.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Although this flapping motion could not lift the dinosaur into the air at that time, the motion of flapping wings may have developed earlier than gliding.
(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)
The door opened, and Agnes, gliding in, without a vestige of colour in her face, put her arm round his neck, and steadily said, “Papa, you are not well. Come with me!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If he had been a gliding shadow before, he now became the ghost of such a shadow, as he crept and circled around, and came up well to leeward of the silent, motionless pair.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes, returned Amy, and gliding away to warn Hercules to beware of the dragon, which warning caused him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Venus will be gliding through your eleventh house of parties, friends, and new people who come into your life.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
