glider
English
Pronunciation
Noun
glider (plural gliders)
- One who glides.
- Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- A pilot of glider aircraft.
- Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
- 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.
- 2007, Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- (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.
- A kind of garden swing.
- Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- 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.
- Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
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aircraft
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pilot
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math: particular configuration
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