glid

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɪd/
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

glid

  1. simple past and past participle of glide
    The boat glid across the lake gracefully.

Synonyms

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

glid

  1. inflection of glida:
    1. present
    2. imperative

Old English

Adjective

glid

  1. slippery
    Synonym: slipor

References

Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from glida.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

glid n

  1. sliding, gliding
    komma på glid
    start sliding
  2. (figuratively, in "på glid") on the slide, at-risk (for delinquency or the like)
    ungdomar på glid
    at-risk youth
  3. glide ((desirable) low friction)
    Vallan ger bra glid
    The ski wax provides good glide
  4. a slide (act of sliding, for example on ice skates)
  5. (slang) lube (short for glidmedel)

Declension

Declension of glid
nominative genitive
singular indefinite glid glids
definite glidet glidets
plural indefinite glid glids
definite gliden glidens

Verb

glid

  1. imperative of glida

References

Volapük

Noun

glid (nominative plural glids)

  1. greeting

Declension

Declension of glid
singular plural
nominative glid glids
genitive glida glidas
dative glide glides
accusative glidi glidis
vocative 1 o glid! o glids!
predicative 2 glidu glidus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only