Glide
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Glide can mean:
- Gliding
- Glider
- Glide, a type of phone in phonology
- Bacterial gliding, a form of motility in biology.
- Glide is another word for semivowel in linguistics.
- Glide, Oregon
- Glide (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand magic move
- Glide is a musical synthesizer parameter, equivalent to portamento
- Glide is a Web operating system
- Glide API, a 3D graphics interface
- Glide is a song by the jam band Phish from their 1992 album A Picture of Nectar
- Glide language, a fictional language from the 2003 novel The Maze Game
- Crest Glide, an ePTFE dental floss (before its acquisition by Procter & Gamble was known simply as "Glide")
- Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, named for Lizzie Glide, a Methodist philanthropist who purchased the church site at the intersection of Ellis and Taylor Streets in San Francisco.
- Glide Foundation is a charitable foundation of the above church
- In phonetics, the term glide is synonymous with a semivowel.