glid
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɪd
Verb
glid
- simple past and past participle of glide
- The boat glid across the lake gracefully.
Synonyms
Anagrams
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
glid
- inflection of glida:
- present
- imperative
Old English
Adjective
glid
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “glid”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Swedish
Etymology
Deverbal from glida.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːd
Noun
glid n
- sliding, gliding
- komma på glid
- start sliding
- (figuratively, in "på glid") on the slide, at-risk (for delinquency or the like)
- ungdomar på glid
- at-risk youth
- glide ((desirable) low friction)
- Vallan ger bra glid
- The ski wax provides good glide
- a slide (act of sliding, for example on ice skates)
- (slang) lube (short for glidmedel)
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | glid | glids |
definite | glidet | glidets | |
plural | indefinite | glid | glids |
definite | gliden | glidens |
Related terms
Verb
glid
- imperative of glida
References
- glid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- glid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- glid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Volapük
Noun
glid (nominative plural glids)