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say it: glahyd
glide is a noun and verb meaning "a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant". It is pronounced /ˈɡlaɪd/ — glahyd. It carries 6 recorded senses.
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
“his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill”
“the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope”
the activity of flying a glider
cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.