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A glider is a light plane that flies without an engine. It still has wings, a body, and a pilot; it just has no motor to pull it through the air. It stays up by riding rising air — warm air going up, or wind hitting a hill and lifting. A powered plane or a winch often helps it get off the ground in the first place; after that, the pilot is flying on skill and weather. People who fly them talk about “lift” and “sink” the way other pilots talk about engines. The word is ordinary and technical at the same time: a child can point at one, and a pilot can spend a lifetime learning it. Though actually, hang-gliders are a cousin of the same idea — a person hanging under a wing — but when someone says glider on its own, they usually mean the light plane.
From the word’s history
From Middle English glider; glide + -er.
glide（滑翔）加 -er：會滑翔的人或東西。
組成From Middle English glider / glydare: glide + -er (“something that glides”).
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
glidernoun/ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
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One who glides.
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Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
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A pilot of glider aircraft.
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Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
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Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
- 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.
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A kind of garden swing.
- 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.
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cellular-automatacomputingengineeringIn the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- 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.
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cellular-automatacomputingengineeringIn the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- It is a reversible rule, and an interesting one. Shortly after I implemented it, Chris and I were watching it run from a small random configuration of vants, when we noticed a structure consisting of 2 vants propagating away from the others -- it is a glider of sorts, consisting of 2 cooperating vants moving along, erasing each others' trail.
- I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny 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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