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Definition of Glides
1. glide [v] - See also: glide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glides
Literary usage of Glides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Primer of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1892)
"These ' essential' glides are implied simply by the juxtaposition of the symbols
of the fixed positions between which they lie, as in QT Vowel-glides are ..."
2. The Sounds of English: An Introduction to Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1908)
"Consonant-glides. Such a word as cat consists not only of the vowel and the ...
In the word given above the two ' off-glides' from the consonants are both ..."
3. A Handbook of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1877)
"INITIAL AND FINAL VOWEL-glides. 195. Vowels may be begun and finished in various
ways b ... If the stress begins on the glides they are at once recognised ..."
4. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"glides. 664. glides are sounds produced during the transition from one sound to
another. Thus in (kii) key we have the glide from the (k)-position to the ..."
5. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"Onward she glides amid ripple and spray, Over the waters— away and away! ...
The gondola glides, Like a spirit of night, O'er the slumbering tides, ..."
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