Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to glide
Participle: glided
Gerund: gliding
Indicative
Present
| I | glide |
| you | glide |
| he;she;it | glides |
| we | glide |
| you | glide |
| they | glide |
Perfect
| I | have glided |
| you | have glided |
| he;she;it | has glided |
| we | have glided |
| you | have glided |
| they | have glided |
Past
| I | glided |
| you | glided |
| he;she;it | glided |
| we | glided |
| you | glided |
| they | glided |
Pluperfect
| I | had glided |
| you | had glided |
| he;she;it | had glided |
| we | had glided |
| you | had glided |
| they | had glided |
Future
| I | will glide |
| you | will glide |
| he;she;it | will glide |
| we | will glide |
| you | will glide |
| they | will glide |
Future Perfect
| I | will have glided |
| you | will have glided |
| he;she;it | will have glided |
| we | will have glided |
| you | will have glided |
| they | will have glided |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | glide |
| you | glide |
| he;she;it | glide |
| we | glide |
| you | glide |
| they | glide |
Perfect
| I | have glided |
| you | have glided |
| he;she;it | have glided |
| we | have glided |
| you | have glided |
| they | have glided |
Imperfect
| I | glided |
| you | glided |
| he;she;it | glided |
| we | glided |
| you | glided |
| they | glided |
Pluperfect
| I | had glided |
| you | had glided |
| he;she;it | had glided |
| we | had glided |
| you | had glided |
| they | had glided |
Conditional
Present
| I | would glide |
| you | would glide |
| he;she;it | would glide |
| we | would glide |
| you | would glide |
| they | would glide |
Perfect
| I | would have glided |
| you | would have glided |
| he;she;it | would have glided |
| we | would have glided |
| you | would have glided |
| they | would have glided |
Imperative
| you | glide |
| we | Let's glide |
| you | glide |
Verbs conjugated like 'glide'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'glide'
elide,
glyde,
gnide,
gride,
guide,
slide,
abide,
aline,
allide,
bide,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-.
2. Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää. See: Middle English '
gliden', Proto-Germanic '
*glīdaną', Low Saxon 'glieden', Dutch '
glijden', German, old spelling '
gleiten', Norwegian, nynorsk '
gli', Danish '
glide', Swedish '
glida', Finnish with old forms '
liitää'.
Verbs referencing "glide"
German, old spelling
gleiten, Esperanto
glisi.
Sample Sentences
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[...] dressing about half-past nine next day, when the noise above hurried me on deck. When I had left it overnight, it was dark, foggy, and damp, and there were bleak hills all round us. Now, we were gliding down a smooth, broad stream, at the rate of eleven miles an hour: our colours flying gaily; our crew rigged out in their smartest clothes; our officers in uniform again; the sun shining as on a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] dog's head, what such an indiscreet midnight promenade might mean. Some dim ideas of imprudence or impropriety in the measure seemed to embarrass him considerably; for he often stopped, as Eliza glided forward, and looked wistfully, first at her and then at the house, and then, as if reassured by reflection, he pattered along after her again. A few minutes brought them to the window of Uncle Tom's [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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A few last words and tears, a few simple adieus and blessings, and clasping her wondering and affrighted child in her arms, she glided noiselessly away.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the Eastern Drawing-room; we went up-stairs into another chamber, where were certain visitors, waiting for audiences. At sight of my conductor, a black in plain clothes and yellow slippers who was gliding noiselessly about, and whispering messages in the ears of the more impatient, made a sign of recognition, and glided off to announce him.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of my conductor, a black in plain clothes and yellow slippers who was gliding noiselessly about, and whispering messages in the ears of the more impatient, made a sign of recognition, and glided off to announce him.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The night is dark, and we proceed within the shadow of the wooded bank, which makes it darker. After gliding past the sombre maze of boughs for a long time, we come upon an open space where the tall trees are burning. The shape of every branch and twig is expressed in a deep red glow, and as the light [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] around it, the deep spiritual gravity of her violet blue eyes, shaded by heavy fringes of golden brown,—all marked her out from other children, and made every one turn and look after her, as she glided hither and thither on the boat. Nevertheless, the little one was not what you would have called either a grave child or a sad one. On the contrary, an airy and innocent playfulness seemed to flicker [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in white, she seemed to move like a shadow through all sorts of places, without contracting spot or stain; and there was not a corner or nook, above or below, where those fairy footsteps had not glided, and that visionary golden head, with its deep blue eyes, fleeted along.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] June—were exquisite indeed. Leaving it upon the sixth, and returning to New York, to embark for England on the succeeding day, I was glad to think that among the last memorable beauties which had glided past us, and softened in the bright perspective, were those whose pictures, traced by no common hand, are fresh in most men 's minds; not easily to grow old, or fade beneath the dust of Time: the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] but a crash that breaks every string can wholly mar its harmony; and, on looking back to seasons which in review appear to us as those of deprivation and trial, we can remember that each hour, as it glided, brought its diversions and alleviations, so that, though not happy wholly, we were not, either, wholly miserable.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)