glissade


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glis·sade

 (glĭ-säd′, -sād′)
n.
1. A gliding step in ballet.
2. A controlled slide, in either a standing or sitting position, used in descending a steep snow slope.
intr.v. glis·sad·ed, glis·sad·ing, glis·sades
To perform a glissade.

[French, from glisser, to slide, from Old French, possibly alteration (influenced by glacer, to slide) of glier, to glide, of Germanic origin; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

glis·sad′er n.
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glissade

(ɡlɪˈsɑːd; -ˈseɪd)
n
1. (Ballet) a gliding step in ballet, in which one foot slides forwards, sideways, or backwards
2. a controlled slide down a snow slope
vb
(intr) to perform a glissade
[C19: from French, from glisser to slip, from Old French glicier, of Frankish origin; compare Old High German glītan to glide]
glisˈsader n
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glis•sade

(glɪˈsɑd, -ˈseɪd)

n., v. -sad•ed, -sad•ing. n.
1. a skillful glide over snow or ice in descending a mountain, as on skis or a toboggan.
2. a gliding or sliding step in ballet.
v.i.
3. to perform a glissade.
[1830–40; < French, =gliss(er) to slip, slide + -ade -ade1]
glis•sad′er, n.
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glissade


Past participle: glissaded
Gerund: glissading

Imperative
glissade
glissade
Present
I glissade
you glissade
he/she/it glissades
we glissade
you glissade
they glissade
Preterite
I glissaded
you glissaded
he/she/it glissaded
we glissaded
you glissaded
they glissaded
Present Continuous
I am glissading
you are glissading
he/she/it is glissading
we are glissading
you are glissading
they are glissading
Present Perfect
I have glissaded
you have glissaded
he/she/it has glissaded
we have glissaded
you have glissaded
they have glissaded
Past Continuous
I was glissading
you were glissading
he/she/it was glissading
we were glissading
you were glissading
they were glissading
Past Perfect
I had glissaded
you had glissaded
he/she/it had glissaded
we had glissaded
you had glissaded
they had glissaded
Future
I will glissade
you will glissade
he/she/it will glissade
we will glissade
you will glissade
they will glissade
Future Perfect
I will have glissaded
you will have glissaded
he/she/it will have glissaded
we will have glissaded
you will have glissaded
they will have glissaded
Future Continuous
I will be glissading
you will be glissading
he/she/it will be glissading
we will be glissading
you will be glissading
they will be glissading
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been glissading
you have been glissading
he/she/it has been glissading
we have been glissading
you have been glissading
they have been glissading
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been glissading
you will have been glissading
he/she/it will have been glissading
we will have been glissading
you will have been glissading
they will have been glissading
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been glissading
you had been glissading
he/she/it had been glissading
we had been glissading
you had been glissading
they had been glissading
Conditional
I would glissade
you would glissade
he/she/it would glissade
we would glissade
you would glissade
they would glissade
Past Conditional
I would have glissaded
you would have glissaded
he/she/it would have glissaded
we would have glissaded
you would have glissaded
they would have glissaded
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.glissade - (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet
ballet, concert dance - a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers
dance step, step - a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance; "he taught them the waltz step"
Verb1.glissade - perform a glissade, in ballet
dance - move in a graceful and rhythmical way; "The young girl danced into the room"
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glissade

verb
To move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly:
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Translations

glissade

n (in dancing) → Glissade f
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Along their track lay the villages of the hillfolk - mud and earth huts, timbers now and then rudely carved with an axe - clinging like swallows' nests against the steeps, huddled on tiny flats half-way down a three-thousand-foot glissade; jammed into a corner between cliffs that funnelled and focused every wandering blast; or, for the sake of summer pasture, cowering down on a neck that in winter would be ten feet deep in snow.
She was then asked to approach the force plate down the runway in a sequence commonly seen during grand allegro: arms prepared by sweeping to premiere en bas and moving to first position; tombe with the leading arm moving to second position and pas de bouree with the non-leading arm moving to second position; glissade while the arms allonge and return to first position as the jump ends; and grand jete with the arms extending into third arabesque.
But no perfectly executed quadruple pirouette is any more breathtaking than watching "old-man" Federer race along the baseline and slide into a glissade to slam the ball cross-court into no-man's corner pocket.
L'article Glissade communicationnelle est apparu en premier sur ALBAYANE .
Then in your head you have to say: pas de chat, glissade - to drill it.
But this is all contingent on knowing how to glissade and ski, plus keep yourself warm, move, eat, cook, camp and perform bodily functions in the arctic winter.
A la fracture irreversible entre l'opposition et le pouvoir, il reste seulement le rempart de l'armee [beaucoup moins que] seule institution capable d'arreter cette glissade [beaucoup plus grand que], neanmoins [beaucoup moins que] proche du point de rupture [beaucoup plus grand que], pour sauver du desastre un pays englue depuis six mois dans une crise politique aiguE1/2 emmaillee de violences qui ont fait 200 morts.
transformation lui aussi: sa marche devient une lente glissade. Il ne
She achieves this by clicking her shutter to sample out the individual rhythms of their steps; they glissade on a stage of concrete planes and structures even while Menken's embodied presence remains palpable in the tiny jolts from one frame to the next.
Arsenal ne pouvait rever d'un meilleur debut de match: 180 secondes de jeu seulement et Giroud fusillait Neuer de pres, reprenant un centre tendu de Walcott apres une glissade d'Alaba (1-0).