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 Translation for 'to glide' from English to Albanian
VERB   to glide | glided | glided
gliding | glides
SYNO coast | glide | gliding | ...
fluturojto glide
rrëshqasto glide
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Translation for 'to glide' from English to Albanian

to glide
fluturoj

rrëshqas
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Usage Examples English
  • She can compress into nearly two-dimensions (like a sheet of paper) to glide on air currents in a fashion similar to that of Mister Fantastic.
  • Race horse jockeys may wear pantyhose under their uniform to enable them to glide freely over the legs and waist when the jockey's body moves at a rapid pace.
  • Bonding between layers is relatively weak van der Waals bonds and are often occupied by gases, which allows the graphene-like layers to be easily separated and to glide past each other.
  • They can also use their silk to suspend themselves, to float through the air, or to glide away from predators.
  • When it flies, the hawk flaps its wings rapidly, and then uses that momentum to glide smoothly and gracefully through the air.

  • In order for a diatom cell to glide, it must have a solid substrate for the mucilage to adhere to.
  • When the legs are stretched out, this membrane allows the sugar glider to glide a considerable distance.
  • Unlike a normal life jacket, the "barefoot wetsuit" allows the skier to glide on their back on top of the water once they reach a high enough speed.
  • Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
  • The decision to glide or spin may need to be decided on an individual basis, determined by the thrower's size and power.

  • The ability to glide evolved in both marsupials (as with sugar gliders) and some placental mammals (as with flying squirrels), which developed independently.
  • They have a furry membrane called a patagium that extends between the front and rear legs and is used to glide through the air.
  • Despite their name, they are not in fact capable of full flight in the same way as birds or bats, but they are able to glide from one tree to another with the aid of a patagium, a furred parachute-like skin membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle.
  • (installed on STS-110, designed by Northrop Grumman in Carpinteria, CA), which allows it to glide 108 metres down rails on the station's main truss.
  • The lizards are well known for their "display structures" and ability to glide long distances using their wing-like, patagial membranes supported by elongated thoracic ribs to generate lift forces.

  • There are a few tour guides on Maui that pick people up at their hotels, and outfit them with a bicycle to glide down the road from just outside the National Park boundary (starting at 6500 ft altitude).
  • However, there are several gliding mammals which are able to glide from tree to tree using fleshy membranes between their limbs; some can travel hundreds of meters in this way with very little loss in height.
  • The airplane ran out of fuel in-flight and had to glide with both engines out for almost [...] to an emergency landing at Gimli, Manitoba, Canada.
  • Electronic versions of the MacCready Ring are built into glide computers that will give audible warnings to the pilot to speed up or slow down.
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