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- Dictionaryglance/ɡlɑːns/
verb
- 1. take a brief or hurried look: "Ginny glanced at her watch" Similar Opposite
- 2. hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely: "the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head" Similar
noun
- 1. a brief or hurried look: "I stole a glance at John" Similar
- 2. a flash or gleam of light: archaic "fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats" Similar
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The meaning of GLANCE is to take a quick look at something. How to use glance in a sentence.
GLANCE definition: 1. to give a quick short look: 2. to shine, reflect light, or sparkle: 3. In cricket, if a batter…. Learn more.
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. When you glance at someone, it's often because you don't want to be caught staring.
1. (intransitive) to look hastily or briefly. 2. (intr; foll by over, through, etc) to look over briefly. to glance through a report. 3. (intransitive) to reflect, glint, or gleam. the sun glanced on the water. 4. (intransitive; usually foll by off)
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. Synonyms: ricochet, reflect.
1. a. To direct the eyes at or toward something briefly: glanced in the rearview mirror. b. To read quickly or in cursory fashion: glanced at the menu. 2. a. To strike a surface at such an angle as to be deflected: A pebble glanced off the windshield. b. To shine over or through something at an angle: The sun glanced through the leaves. c.
glance (at somebody/something) a quick look. to take/have a glance at the newspaper headlines. a cursory/brief/casual/furtive glance. The sisters exchanged glances (= looked at each other). She shot him a sideways glance. He walked away without a backward glance.
glance. noun. uk / ɡlɑːns / us. B2 [ C ] a quick look: She had a quick glance around the restaurant. at a glance. If you see something at a glance, you see it very quickly or immediately. (Definition of glance from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately. A complete guide to the word "GLANCE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
an incidental or passing thought or allusion. Glance noun. a name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance verb. to shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.