glider
a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.
a porch swing made of an upholstered seat suspended from a steel framework by links or springs.
a person or thing that glides.
a person who pilots a glider.
Origin of glider
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How to use glider in a sentence
The base was used for three squadrons of Spitfires under Great Britain’s Royal Air Force, and supported airborne and assault glider operations as well.
How Bentley took over and transformed a World War II air base | Kristen Lee/The Drive | September 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIf they were gliders, their parents would have had to care for the babies until they were flight-ready.
Baby pterosaurs may have been able to fly right after hatching | Carolyn Gramling | September 15, 2021 | Science News For StudentsAn ongoing assessment may lead to the gliders being recategorized from vulnerable to endangered.
A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species | John Pickrell | March 9, 2021 | Science NewsEven as a “failed experiment,” though, these gliders can help scientists understand the origins of flight, Dececchi and his colleagues concluded.
Dinosaurs may have evolved into birds, but early flights didn’t go so well | Kate Baggaley | October 23, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAlthough Archaeopteryx wasn’t a particularly great flier either, Dececchi says, it was a stronger glider and possibly could flap its wings a bit.
Occasionally someone climbed over it or crashed through it or dug under it, or made himself a glider and flew through it.
The Stacks: How The Berlin Wall Inspired John le Carré’s First Masterpiece | John le Carré | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI especially enjoy the scene where he uses a kite as a hang-glider.
You go in a rocket-powered glider, shoot up for 60 miles, and fall down for five minutes, so it gives you a simulated zero-G.
Lilienthal, “the glider King,” was the first person to make repeated, successful flights on a glider.
The Segway Disaster and Other Deadly Inventions | The Daily Beast | September 27, 2010 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Daily Beast rounds up seven more, from the glider King to the flying taxi inventor.
The Segway Disaster and Other Deadly Inventions | The Daily Beast | September 27, 2010 | THE DAILY BEASTThus is the Aeroplane "nose-heavy" as a glider, and just so to a degree ensuring a speed of glide equal to its flying speed.
The Aeroplane Speaks | H. BarberMeanwhile I made a lot of turn-table and glider models and started in upon an idea of combining gas-bags and gliders.
Tono Bungay | H. G. WellsIt is also the principle which governs the airplane or glider, whose planes are kept at a definite angle to the air current.
The Romance of Aircraft | Lawrence Yard SmithFor where the biplane has an intricate control system, Lilienthal relied entirely upon his own body to operate his glider.
The Romance of Aircraft | Lawrence Yard SmithPilcher adopted an even more original scheme for making his glider “go.”
The Romance of Aircraft | Lawrence Yard Smith
British Dictionary definitions for glider
/ (ˈɡlaɪdə) /
an aircraft capable of gliding and soaring in air currents without the use of an engine: See also sailplane
a person or thing that glides
another name for flying phalanger
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