Glance

[glance]

Glance involves quick contact. When you glance at someone you take a quick peek at them. When a knife blow glances off you, it doesn't penetrate, but hits at an angle.

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A sudden flash of light or splendor.

Noun
a quick look

Verb
rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several lampposts"

Verb
throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn''t see anything interesting"

n.
A sudden flash of light or splendor.

n.
A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.

n.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

n.
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.

v. i.
To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.

v. i.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".

v. i.
To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.

v. i.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.

v. i.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.

v. t.
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

v. t.
To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.

Glance

Glance , n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.] 1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Swift as the lightning glance.
2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
How fleet is a glance of the mind.
4. A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. -- Glance copper, calcocite. -- Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath.

Glance

Glance, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing .] 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools.
2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". Shak.
On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground.
3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Wherein obscurely C'91sar'b6s ambition shall be glanced at.
He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.
5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.

Glance

Glance , v. t. 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. 2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]
In company I often glanced it.

A sudden flash of light or splendor.

To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.

To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

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Usage Examples

Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.