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glance
1[ glans, glahns ]
verb (used without object)
- to look quickly or briefly.
- to gleam or flash:
a silver brooch glancing in the sunlight.
Synonyms: scintillate, glisten
- to strike a surface or object obliquely, especially so as to bounce off at an angle (often followed by off ):
The arrow glanced off his shield.
- to allude briefly to a topic or subject in passing (usually followed by at ).
verb (used with object)
- to cast a glance or brief look at; catch a glimpse of.
- to cast or reflect, as a gleam.
- to throw, hit, kick, shoot, etc. (something) so that it glances off a surface or object.
noun
- a quick or brief look.
- a gleam or flash of light, especially reflected light.
Synonyms: glitter
- a deflected movement or course; an oblique rebound.
- Digital Technology. information on an electronic screen that can be understood quickly or at a glance:
Get news and weather glances on your phone.
Tap anywhere on a glance to open the app.
- Cricket. a stroke in which the batsman deflects the ball with the bat, as to leg.
- Archaic. a passing reference or allusion; insinuation.
glance
2[ glans, glahns ]
noun
- any of various minerals having a luster that indicates a metallic nature.
glance
1/ ɡlɑːns /
verb
- intr to look hastily or briefly
- intr; foll by over, through, etc to look over briefly
to glance through a report
- intr to reflect, glint, or gleam
the sun glanced on the water
- intrusually foll byoff to depart (from an object struck) at an oblique angle
the arrow glanced off the tree
- tr to strike at an oblique angle
the arrow glanced the tree
noun
- a hasty or brief look; peep
- at a glancefrom one's first look; immediately
- a flash or glint of light; gleam
- the act or an instance of an object glancing or glancing off another
- a brief allusion or reference
- cricket a stroke in which the ball is deflected off the bat to the leg side; glide
glance
2/ ɡlɑːns /
noun
- any mineral having a metallic lustre, esp a simple sulphide
copper glance
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈglancingly, adverb
- ˈglancing, adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of glance1
Origin of glance2
Word History and Origins
Origin of glance1
Origin of glance2
Idioms and Phrases
see at first blush (glance) .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
He glanced at people who gathered Monday on the Syrian side of the river, taking off their shoes and rolling up their pant legs before dipping their feet into the water.
Ferran’s ragged butterfly Blanche looks at first glance as if she might be blown to smithereens with one gust of Stanley’s ferocious lung power.
At first glance there was nothing suspicious about the group of workmen digging up the high street outside a former clothes shop.
In India, men often have a laundry list of attributes they want in their brides - a glance at the matrimonial columns in newspapers and match-making websites shows everyone wants tall, fair, beautiful brides.
And at first glance, telling constituents to contact Republicans instead might seem logical.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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