Meaning

One who glides..

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1. One who glides.
2. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
3. A pilot of glider aircraft.
4. Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
5. Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
6. A kind of garden swing.
7. (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
8. A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:

I believe it is indeed new -- I've gone back through everything I can find, as far back as the early 90's when Heisenburp devices were first invented, and there don't seem to be any reactions based on a glider suppressing a blinker.

In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.

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