Usually means: Engineless aircraft soaring through air.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. glider: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glider: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glider: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glider: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glider: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glider, glider: Wordnik
  7. glider: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glider: Wiktionary
  9. glider: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glider: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glider: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glider, glider: Dictionary.com
  13. glider: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Glider (Belfast), Glider (Conway's Life), Glider (EP), Glider (The Sight Below album), Glider (aircraft), Glider (automobiles), Glider (band), Glider (bot), Glider (furniture), Glider (sailplane), Glider (video game), Glider: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Glider: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. glider: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. glider: Rhymezone
  18. Glider: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. glider: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. glider: Free Dictionary
  21. glider: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. glider: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Glider (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glider: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glider: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLIDER: Acronym Finder
  2. glider: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glider: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  One who glides.
noun:  Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
noun:  A pilot of glider aircraft.
noun:  Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
noun:  Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
noun:  A kind of garden swing.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
noun:  A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.

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