glider
名词 n.
英 /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
美 /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
- One who glides.
- Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- A pilot of glider aircraft.
- 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.
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In 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:
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In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.; Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
— 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.
- A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
- 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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词源
From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.
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