phone vs glide

phone and glide both are nouns.

phone and glide both are verbs.

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

As nouns, glide is a hyponym of phone; that is, glide is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than phone:

phone: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
glide: a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

Other hyponyms of phone include phoneme, vowel, vowel sound, semivowel, consonant, orinasal, orinasal phone, sonant, voiced sound, aspirate, ingressive.

phone (noun)	glide (noun)
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds	the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear	the activity of flying a glider
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language	a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

phone (verb)	glide (verb)
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone	move smoothly and effortlessly
	fly in or as if in a glider plane
	cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

Difference between phone and glide

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