glider

glider

English

Etymology

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide +‎ -er.

A motor glider in flight.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: glī'də(r), IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

glider (plural gliders)

modern glider-type swing

Glider in Conway's Life

1. One who glides.
2. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
3. A pilot of glider aircraft.
4. Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
5. Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
   • 2007, Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

     The left drawer runner is probably replaced. Nail holes on the upper surface of the stretchers suggest the piece once had a bottom shelf. Modern metal gliders have been added under the feet.

6. A kind of garden swing.
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices (2003), page 73

     Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.

   • 2011, Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good!, page 5

     Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.

7. (mathematics) In the Game of Life cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.

   Hypernym: spaceship

   • 2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life (page 246)

     In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.

8. A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
9. (entomology) 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.

Hyponyms

• hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplane

Derived terms

• glider gun
• stair glider
• sugar glider

Translations

one who glides

Finnish: liitäjä (fi) Galician: planador (gl) m, planadora (gl) f Portuguese: planador (pt) m, planador (pt) f Spanish: planeador (es) m, planeadora f

aircraft

Afrikaans: sweeftuig Albanian: avion pa motor Arabic: طائرة شراعية‎ Belarusian: планёр m (planjór) Bengali: গ্লাইডার (glaiḍar) Bulgarian: планер (bg) m (planer) Burmese: ဂလိုက်ဒါလေယာဉ် (ga.luikdaleyany) Catalan: planador m Chinese: Cantonese: 滑翔機, 滑翔机 (waat6 coeng4 gei1) Mandarin: 滑翔機／滑翔机 (zh) (huáxiángjī) Czech: kluzák m, větroň m Danish: svævefly (da) n Dutch: zweefvliegtuig (nl) n Esperanto: glisilo (eo), aerglitilo Estonian: purilennuk, plaaner Finnish: purjelentokone (fi), liitokone (fi) French: planeur (fr) m Galician: planador (gl) m Georgian: პლანერი (ṗlaneri) German: Segelflugzeug (de) n, Gleiter (de) m, Gleitflugzeug n Greek: ανεμόπτερο (el) n (anemóptero) Hebrew: דאון‎ (he) m Hindi: ग्लाइडर (glāiḍar) Hungarian: vitorlázó repülőgép (hu), vitorlázórepülő Icelandic: sviffluga f Irish: faoileoir m Italian: aliante (it) m, veleggiatore m Japanese: グライダー (ja) (guraidā), 滑空機 (ja) (かっくうき, kakkūki) Kannada: ತೇಲು ವಿಮಾನ (kn) (tēlu vimāna) Kazakh: планер (planer) Korean: 글라이더 (geullaideo) Latin: aëronavis velivola Latvian: planieris m Lithuanian: sklandytuvas m Luxembourgish: Segelfliger m Macedonian: едрилица f (edrilica) Malayalam: ഗ്ലൈഡർ (glaiḍaṟ) Manx: foilleyr m Maori: waka rereangi Norwegian: Bokmål: seilfly n, seglfly n, glidefly n Nynorsk: seglfly n, glidefly n Persian: گلایدر‎ (fa) (glâyder) Polish: szybowiec (pl) m Portuguese: planador (pt) m Romanian: planor (ro) n Russian: планёр (ru) m (planjór) Sicilian: alianti m Slovak: klzák m, vetroň m Slovene: jadralno letalo n Spanish: planeador (es) m Swedish: segelflygplan (sv) n, glidflygplan n (primary glider) Tamil: மிதவை வானூர்தி (mitavai vāṉūrti) Thai: เครื่องร่อน (krʉ̂ʉang-rɔ̂n) Turkish: planör (tr) Ukrainian: пла́нер m (pláner) Vietnamese: tàu lượn Võro: lauglinnuk Welsh: gleider m Yiddish: גלידער‎ (glider)

pilot

Bulgarian: планер (bg) m (planer) Czech: plachtař (cs) m Finnish: purjelentäjä (fi), riippuliitäjä Hungarian: vitorlázórepülős Italian: volovelista m Romanian: planorist (ro) m, planoristă (ro) f

animal with the ability to glide

German: Gleiter (de) m

cap affixed to base of legs of furniture

math: particular configuration

Finnish: kulkuri (fi) French: planeur (fr) m Russian: планёр (ru) m (planjór)

type of garden swing

type of vehicle

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Lithuanian: (please verify) sklandytuvas m (1, 2)

Further reading

• glider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dilger, Gilder, gilder, girdle, girled, gridle, regild, ridgel

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Verb

glider

1. present tense of glida.

Anagrams

• redlig