noun
Meaning 1
One who glides.
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glider
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UK: glī'də r
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UK: /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
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US: /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/
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rhymes with -aɪdə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
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noun
Meaning 3
A pilot of glider aircraft.
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noun
Meaning 4
Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
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noun
Meaning 5
Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
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Synonyms: glide
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noun
Meaning 6
A kind of garden swing.
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noun
Meaning 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.
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Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Broader terms: spaceship
noun
Meaning 8
In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
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Usage: broadly
Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Broader terms: spaceship
noun
Meaning 9
A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
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noun
Meaning 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.
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Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 11
aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sailplane
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: heavier-than-air craft
Narrower terms: hang glider
History
Etymology
From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.
Across languages
Translations
96 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: liitäjä — one who glides
- Galician: planador — one who glides
- Galician: planadora — one who glides
- Portuguese: planador — one who glides
- Portuguese: planador — one who glides
- Spanish: planeador — one who glides
- Spanish: planeadora — one who glides
- Afrikaans: sweeftuig — aircraft
- Albanian: avion pa motor — aircraft
- Arabic: طائرة شراعية — aircraft
- Belarusian: планёр (planjór) — aircraft
- Bengali: গ্লাইডার (glaiḍar) — aircraft
- Bulgarian: планер (planer) — aircraft
- Burmese: ဂလိုက်ဒါလေယာဉ် (ga.luikdaleyany) — aircraft
- Catalan: planador — aircraft
- Catalan: veler — aircraft
- Chinese Cantonese: 滑翔機 /滑翔机 (waat6 coeng4 gei1) — aircraft
- Chinese Mandarin: 滑翔機 /滑翔机 (huáxiángjī) — aircraft
- Czech: kluzák — aircraft
- Czech: větroň — aircraft
- Danish: svævefly — aircraft
- Dutch: zweefvliegtuig — aircraft
- Esperanto: glisilo — aircraft
- Esperanto: aerglitilo — aircraft
- Estonian: purilennuk — aircraft
- Estonian: plaaner — aircraft
- Finnish: purjelentokone — aircraft
- Finnish: liitokone — aircraft
- French: planeur — aircraft
- Galician: planador — aircraft
- Georgian: პლანერი (ṗlaneri) — aircraft
- German: Segelflugzeug — aircraft
- German: Gleiter — aircraft
- German: Gleitflugzeug — aircraft
- Greek: ανεμόπτερο (anemóptero) — aircraft
- Hebrew: דאון — aircraft
- Hindi: ग्लाइडर (glāiḍar) — aircraft
- Hungarian: vitorlázó repülőgép — aircraft
- Hungarian: vitorlázórepülő — aircraft
- Icelandic: sviffluga — aircraft
- Irish: faoileoir — aircraft
- Italian: aliante — aircraft
- Italian: veleggiatore — aircraft
- Japanese: グライダー (guraidā) — aircraft
- Japanese: 滑空機 (kakkūki) — aircraft
- Kannada: ತೇಲು ವಿಮಾನ (tēlu vimāna) — aircraft
- Kazakh: планер (planer) — aircraft
- Korean: 글라이더 (geullaideo) — aircraft
- Latin: aëronavis velivola — aircraft
- Latvian: planieris — aircraft
- Lithuanian: sklandytuvas — aircraft
- Luxembourgish: Segelfliger — aircraft
- Macedonian: едрилица (edrilica) — aircraft
- Malayalam: ഗ്ലൈഡർ (glaiḍaṟ) — aircraft
- Manx: foilleyr — aircraft
- Māori: waka rereangi — aircraft
- Norwegian Bokmål: seilfly — aircraft
- Norwegian Bokmål: seglfly — aircraft
- Norwegian Bokmål: glidefly — aircraft
- Norwegian Nynorsk: seglfly — aircraft
- Norwegian Nynorsk: glidefly — aircraft
- Persian: گلایدر (glâyder) — aircraft
- Polish: szybowiec — aircraft
- Portuguese: planador — aircraft
- Romanian: planor — aircraft
- Russian: планёр (planjór) — aircraft
- Sicilian: alianti — aircraft
- Slovak: klzák — aircraft
- Slovak: vetroň — aircraft
- Slovene: jadralno letalo — aircraft
- Spanish: planeador — aircraft
- Swedish: segelflygplan — aircraft
- Swedish: glidflygplan — aircraft
- Tamil: மிதவை வானூர்தி (mitavai vāṉūrti) — aircraft
- Thai: เครื่องร่อน (krʉ̂ʉang-rɔ̂n) — aircraft
- Turkish: planör — aircraft
- Ukrainian: пла́нер (pláner) — aircraft
- Vietnamese: tàu lượn — aircraft
- Võro: lauglinnuk — aircraft
- Welsh: gleider — aircraft
- Yiddish: גלידער (glider) — aircraft
- Bulgarian: планер (planer) — pilot
- Czech: plachtař — pilot
- Finnish: purjelentäjä — pilot
- Finnish: riippuliitäjä — pilot
- Hungarian: vitorlázórepülős — pilot
- Italian: volovelista — pilot
- Romanian: planorist — pilot
- Romanian: planoristă — pilot
- Russian: планерист (planerist) — pilot
- German: Gleiter — animal with the ability to glide
- Woiwurrung: warrañ — animal with the ability to glide
- Woiwurrung: dadjerri — animal with the ability to glide
- Finnish: kulkuri — math: particular configuration
- French: planeur — math: particular configuration
- Russian: планёр (planjór) — math: particular configuration
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