English Explanatory Dictionary

glider

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who glides.
  2. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
  3. A pilot of glider aircraft.
  4. Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
  5. Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
  6. A kind of garden swing.
  7. In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
  8. Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
  9. A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
  10. Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.

Pronunciation

glī'də /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-glider.wav /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-glider.wav

Word forms

glider gliders

Etymology

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.

Synonyms

glide

Derived words

delta glider feather-tailed glider feathertail glider glider gun greater glider gyroglider Hungarian glider hydroglider Krefft's glider mahogany glider ring-tailed glider savanna glider squirrel glider stair glider sugar glider wrist-winged glider

Translations

Afrikaans: sweeftuig Albanian: avion pa motor Arabic: طائرة شراعية Belarusian: планёр Bengali: গ্লাইডার Bulgarian: планер Burmese: ဂလိုက်ဒါလေယာဉ် Catalan: planador Catalan: veler Chinese Cantonese: 滑翔機 /滑翔机 Chinese Mandarin: 滑翔機 /滑翔机 Czech: kluzák Czech: větroň Danish: svævefly Dutch: zweefvliegtuig Esperanto: glisilo Esperanto: aerglitilo Estonian: purilennuk Estonian: plaaner Finnish: purjelentokone Finnish: liitokone Finnish: kulkuri French: planeur Galician: planador Georgian: პლანერი German: Segelflugzeug German: Gleiter German: Gleitflugzeug Greek: ανεμόπτερο Hebrew: דאון Hindi: ग्लाइडर Hungarian: vitorlázó repülőgép Hungarian: vitorlázórepülő Icelandic: sviffluga Irish: faoileoir Italian: aliante Italian: veleggiatore Japanese: グライダー Japanese: 滑空機 Kannada: ತೇಲು ವಿಮಾನ Kazakh: планер Korean: 글라이더 Latin: aëronavis velivola Latvian: planieris Lithuanian: sklandytuvas Luxembourgish: Segelfliger Macedonian: едрилица Malayalam: ഗ്ലൈഡർ Manx: foilleyr Māori: waka rereangi Norwegian Bokmål: seilfly Norwegian Bokmål: seglfly Norwegian Bokmål: glidefly
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