glide vs movement

movement vs glide

glide and movement both are nouns.

glide is a verb but movement is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
glide	Yes	No	Yes	No
movement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, movement is a hypernym of glide; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than glide:

glide: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
movement: the act of changing location from one place to another

Other hypernyms of glide include motion, move.

glide (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the activity of flying a glider	the act of changing the location of something
a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
	the act of changing location from one place to another
	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
	a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
	a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
	a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
	an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
	a euphemism for defecation

glide (verb)	movement (verb)
move smoothly and effortlessly
fly in or as if in a glider plane
cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

Difference between glide and movement

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