/glaid/ n. 1. A very brief phonetic vowel (sense 1) which functions in some language as a phonological consonant (sense 2); the English glides /j/ and /w/ (as in yes and win) are brief versions of [i] and [u]. 2. In the SPE feature system, any segment...

1 semivowel 2 Speech sound without etymological basis that is inserted epenthetically, such as ‹s› in Ger. Kunst ‘art’ (<können ‘to be able’) and the epenthetical ‹1› in Russ. tomlyú...

Glide can mean: Gliding Glider 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...