I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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You see sailing boats gliding along , their huge sails gracefully bending to the wind.
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And aerobically fit skaters slash and glide along groomed tracks.
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Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot, by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface.
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At one moment we see a little boy dressed in a black cloak gliding along .
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We glide along a glassy-smooth stretch of water, listening to the steadily increasing roar of Hance Rapid.
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In the drizzle and the fog over the forest, I saw two ravens gliding along .
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To slip or glide along . 3.
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Yet there was Orr, gliding along as if shielded by an invisible barrier as the Hawks sleep-skated sheeplike in his wake.
away
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At little more than walking speed it glides away .
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On the inside, Annie Taylor felt the barrel glide away until it reached the suction of the rapids.
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After a while the floating orchestra glided away but no one moved.
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And then for a while Sorcerer let himself glide away .
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Rain glided away , heading for a politician of doubtful integrity.
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Briefly then, he let himself glide away .
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The camera glides away from them, up into the night sky, leaving them alone in the garden.
down
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The window glides down , outside the wind is rising.
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Athena well-pleased left Olympus and glided down to Ithaca.
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In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
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The swarm-bearing man glided down a hill into a marsh.
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They glided down the wooden stairs.
over
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They watched it fly up and up, gliding over the sea.
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As she talked, David found his eyes inexorably gliding over the curves of her body.
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Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes, dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom.
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I always use a soft pencil as it glides over the page.
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The first man out of the starting gate today will swing and glide over a carpet of man-made snow 80 centimetres deep.
through
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Of course, some new parents glide through without a hitch.
up
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Little blue trains, each with two boxy carriages, glide up and down.
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They touch down, and he pushes off again, taking her arm so that she glides up with him in spite of herself.
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My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps, suspended in midair by anti-gravity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A swan glided across the surface of the lake.
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He glided the aircraft into a vacant field.
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The pianist glided easily from a Billy Joel song into "Make Believe Rag."
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The plane glided through heavy clouds.
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The rattlesnake can see in the dark and makes no noise as it glides along.
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Your skis should glide naturally as you move across the snow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Frith stood on the sea wall and watched the sail gliding down the swollen estuary.
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Further on down, near to the city, a single felucca was gliding gracefully in towards the bank.
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He pulled out of the parking, engine bubbling warmly, wheels gliding over the pavement as if in a dream.
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She pressed a button and we glided down the hill, on a track.
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She seemed to glide on her little satin-shod feet.
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The townsfolk glide around on recently mopped floors with a strange light in their eyes.
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The window glides down, outside the wind is rising.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They danced with sweeping gestures and romantic glides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How he was carried forward by the glide .
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In this short glide you maneuvered the machine to any clearing in range.
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Only fifty yards further upstream I find a smooth glide along my own bank that looks as though it should hold a few chub.
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Partly it was Vinny, partly the glide .
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See them nose the long coastline in a glide of perfected instinct.