Phrase Hound found 24 phrases and 25 compound words that contain glide. The most common are listed below. Open glide in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 24
- glide pathThe path of an aircraft as it lands under low power; especially, such a path advised to a pilot by radar assistance from the ground.
- glide reflectionA transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
- glide bombA standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.
- glide ratioThe instantaneous ratio of horizontal speed to rate of fall for a glider.
- glide bombingpresent participle and gerund of glide bomb
- GLIDE numberGlobally unique identifier number for disasters, such as earthquakes.
- glide slopeAlternative form of glideslope: The portion of an instrument landing system which provides vertical guidance to an aircraft during an approach to landing.
- glide timeSynonym of flexitime: An arrangement that allows employees to set their own working hours within agreed limits; normally must include certain periods (core time) when they must be at work.
- off-glideAlternative form of offglide: A phase while the articulators are moving away from their position in articulating a speech sound.
- glide kipA movement on the horizontal bar consisting in swinging in a piked hollow position, toes in front, under the bar to extend to a straight hollow position parallel to the floor, and then quickly pulling one's feet towards the bar while …
- hang-glideTo fly a hang glider.
- palais glideA type of ballroom dance performed by large groups of people with linked arms, involving gliding steps and high kicks.
- hypersonic glide vehicleAn unpowered vehicle that is launched to high altitudes by a rocket booster.
- hypersonic glide vehiclesplural of hypersonic glide vehicle: An unpowered vehicle that is launched to high altitudes by a rocket booster.
- bell glideA kind of glide (cap affixed to the base of legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved) that is shaped rather like a bell, having a narrower waist and a wider lip at the bottom.
- glide bombsplural of glide bomb: A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.
- GLIDE numbersplural of GLIDE number: Globally unique identifier number for disasters, such as earthquakes.
- glide padA touchpad
- glide pathsplural of glide path: The path of an aircraft as it lands under low power; especially, such a path advised to a pilot by radar assistance from the ground.
- glide ratiosplural of glide ratio: The instantaneous ratio of horizontal speed to rate of fall for a glider.
- glide reflectionsplural of glide reflection: A transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
- glide slopesplural of glide slope: The portion of an instrument landing system which provides vertical guidance to an aircraft during an approach to landing.
- voice glideThe brief and obscure neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in able.
- glide bombedsimple past and past participle of glide bomb
Compound words 25
- gliderOne who glides.
- glideslopeThe portion of an instrument landing system which provides vertical guidance to an aircraft during an approach to landing.
- inglideA brief transitional sound that precedes the main vowel in a diphthong or syllable, typically a short vowel-like segment at the onset of a nucleus.
- glideosomeA dynamic complex that powers gliding motion and host cell invasion by the motile and invasive stages of Apicomplexans (including Toxoplasma and Plasmodium)
- glipTo bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II.
- midglideA point in time during a glide.
- downglideA downward glide.
- glidyThat glides.
- overglideTo glide over.
- upglideAn upward glide.