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Definition of glider
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Recent Examples of glider from the Web
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Other versions of the toy shot water, and one even shot a little web-glider.
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Gliders have no engine and can be stalled and unstalled.
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Depending what time of day Armento arrived, my grandmother was maybe sitting on the glider in the side yard.
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Then the glider will head into the wind that has just passed over the peak of a mountain, like where a stream roils over a rock.
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There were hang-gliders that flew into the stadium, and a hot air balloon that crashed into the stands.
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The canoe features an image of Wilbur and Orville Wright's glider.
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NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is carrying out small scale tests of an air launch system that’ll use three parts: a tow plane, pulling a high altitude glider drone, holding a rocket, to get small satellites into orbit.
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Gustavo Goni, director of the physical oceanography division at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, said glider data has helped improve the models’ understanding of the ocean.
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First Known Use of glider
15th century
GLIDER Defined for English Language Learners
glider
playDefinition of glider for English Language Learners
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: an aircraft that is similar to an airplane but without an engine
GLIDER Defined for Kids
glider
playDefinition of glider for Students
: an aircraft without an engine that glides on air currents
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See words that rhyme with glider Spanish Central: Translation of glider Nglish: Translation of glider for Spanish speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about glider
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