What's the difference between glide and saunter?

Glide


Definition:

  • (n.) The glede or kite.
  • (v. i.) To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.
  • (v. i.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
  • (n.) The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
  • (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cells with a mutation in their social motility system were 5- to 10-fold less cohesive and tended to glide as single cells.
  • (2) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.
  • (3) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
  • (4) The data obtained suggest that at least some of the structures associated with gliding are heat sensitive and located on the cell surface, that the gliding mechanism requires an intact energy metabolism, and, finally, that gliding motility is an extremely stable genetic property of Mycoplasma sp.
  • (5) Since 1970, when the flexor tendon gliding mechanism of the finger has been damaged in the area of "no man's land" and conditions are less than optimal for conventional tendon grafting, the authors have attempted to graft a fascial tube including tendon and paratenon of the palmaris longus.
  • (6) In the audiological test battery, the significantly pathologic tests were discrimination of interrupted speech and evoked cortical responses to frequency glides (CRA-delta-f).
  • (7) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (8) Present surgical procedures for the repair of tendon injury are complicated by formation of peritendinous collagenous adhesions which restrict tendon gliding.
  • (9) An LSC colony spreads on the surface of solid 100:10 medium as a monolayer of cells in a fashion resembling that of certain swarming or gliding bacteria.
  • (10) Responses to rising and falling infrequent glides showed no consistent asymmetry.
  • (11) Bound, soluble, and whole-cell fractions of two strains of the gliding bacterium Vitreoscilla were found to contain two enzymes capable of hydrolyzing adenosine phosphates: a Mg(++)-activated adenosine triphosphatase with a temperature optimum of 37 C, and a Mg(++)-activated adenosine diphosphatase with a temperature optimum of 55 C. Both enzymes had an optimal pH response between 8.5 and 9.5.
  • (12) The ability to glide on a solid surface was inducible by calcium ion in Stigmatella aurantiaca.
  • (13) Three polyclonal B cell activators obtained from bacteria, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), peptidoglycan from Staphylococcus aureus, and gliding bacterial adjuvant from Cytophaga (GBA), were able to protect WEHI-231 cells from anti-IgM-induced growth arrest.
  • (14) Sea kayaking, wild swimming, rock climbing, mountain biking and hang gliding are hugely popular pastimes.
  • (15) However, the patent default of the legislator causes the protection of hobby and sport practice of hang-gliding to be either wholly inadequate or ruled by ambiguous regulations.
  • (16) A number of observations suggest that active movements of flagellar membrane glycoproteins are associated with the processes of whole cell gliding motility and the early events of fertilization in Chlamydomonas.
  • (17) The advantage of the technique is the low risk of gliding of the first thrust and the decreased need of assistance.
  • (18) For longer glide durations (greater than or equal to 200 ms) the DLI increased significantly as compared with shorter durations.
  • (19) Thus both explicit and implicit specifications of the horizon contribute to perception of the glide slope angle.
  • (20) The winger made Jonny Evans seem oafish as he feinted his way past him on the right and then glided 20 yards forward before racing into the box, past Jonas Olsson, and firing into the net despite an attempted block by Craig Dawson.

Saunter


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
  • (n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s also good decorum to cover your parts with both hands on entering and leaving the water (note bottoms are generally considered less offensive) and not to saunter around once on land.
  • (2) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
  • (3) I can see him very clearly now, leaving Magdalen and sauntering up the High Street, looking about him in his friendly but slightly abstracted fashion.
  • (4) "We call them our girls," says David Strachan affectionately, watching the line of bright-eyed brown Jersey cows saunter obligingly from their cubicles – their indoor home during the chilly winter months – and into the adjoining milking parlour.
  • (5) Smooth South African Trevor Noah saunters into shot, smiling, while the show’s trio of regular comedy sidekicks, Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj and Jordan Klepper, play around with a vuvuzela and some basic rugby terminology in a lame effort to ingratiate themselves with the new star.
  • (6) They saunter off to a standing ovation accompanied by much appreciative hat waving.
  • (7) 9.03pm GMT 62 min: Rafael bowls Alonso to the floor as the Sunderland defender saunters up and down the left wing.
  • (8) Then the lock passed the ball down to Woodcock who sauntered straight through the middle.
  • (9) This is a format where two players who pride themselves on sauntering through bars in stupid clothes compete to seduce REAL women in REAL clubs, judged by a panel of "expert pick-up analysts".
  • (10) She has been banned from attending Ukip meetings since publishing last month’s cover lampooning Farage , his beaming face flanked by Al Murray and the Prophet Zebadiah with a shared speech bubble: “I’m the joke candidate.” This kind of strong-arm behaviour seems par for the course: two young chaps saunter in, looking very different from tonight’s retired-double-glazing-magnate-with-small-brushy-moustache style.
  • (11) Brazil deserved to win, though the Dutch could legitimately claim that Bebeto's goal should have been chalked off, Romario sauntering around offside in the build-up.
  • (12) They had just confessed to war crimes, to heinous acts, and I had videotaped it, and then they just sauntered off into the woods.
  • (13) Occasionally he makes geography itself impossible – the Bohemian seacoast in A Winter's Tale , or the lion that saunters through Arden in As You Like It – but even these, it might be argued, are testament to the boundlessness of his imagination.
  • (14) This pith squirt stings because we want our politicians to be motivated by high ideals and compassion and not to secretly seethe every time Harry Styles impeccably saunters through the public mind with hair that gently binds his scalp to the heavens and mankind to the angels.
  • (15) Robben, replacing Mandzukic in the existential vagueness down the right, takes his time, saunters into the area, cuts inside Adriano, and curls a peach into the top-left corner.
  • (16) A s he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul's most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haunted by his actions.
  • (17) Poise was restored as Charlotte Higgins deboulé-d around Powell and Pressberger's The Red Shoes and Jonathan Haynes kissed the ring of The Princess Bride , before Tony Paley sauntered in and ordered two and half hours of straight up Rio Bravo .
  • (18) On one occasion, as I was interviewing Le Pen père in his study (covered in nautical memorabilia, gorgeous view of the capital), Marine came sauntering in.
  • (19) So when Spirescu sauntered through with a woolly cap pulled down over his ears and admitted it was his first time in the UK and that he was here to work, he was quickly surrounded by journalists – as well as the chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz.
  • (20) That Blair and his ministers still saunter among us, gathering money wherever they go, is a withering indictment of a one-sided system of international justice: a system whose hypocrisies Tutu has exposed.