[ɡlˈans], [ɡlˈans], [ɡ_l_ˈa_n_s]
Definitions of glance
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rebound after hitting; " The car caromed off several lampposts"
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a quick look
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throw a glance at; take a brief look at; " She only glanced at the paper"; " glint" is archaic; " I only peeked-- I didn't see anything interesting"
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throw a glance at; take a brief look at; " She only glanced at the paper"; " I only peeked-- I didn't see anything interesting"
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A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
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An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark- colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
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To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
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To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
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To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
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To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. Your arrow hath glanced.
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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - often with at.
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A sudden shoot of light; quick passing look of the eye; a quick momentary view.
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To shoot a sudden ray; view with a quick movement of the eye; to strike slantingly and fly off; as, the blow glanced off his shield.
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A sudden shoot of light: a darting of the eye: a momentary view.
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To dart a ray of light or splendor: to snatch a momentary view: to fly off obliquely: to make a passing allusion.
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To dart suddenly or obliquely.
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GLANCINGLY.
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Sudden flash of light; momentary view.
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To flash suddenly; give a hasty look; fly off obliquely; allude briefly.
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To dart suddenly; direct momentarily.
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To look hurriedly or indirectly.
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To bound off after striking obliquely.
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To hint; make allusion.
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To flash; gleam.
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A quick look; sudden thought; momentary gleam; oblique rebound.
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A sudden shoot of light or splendour; a darting of the eye or sight; a quick momentary view; a passing allusion; a mineral with a metallic lustre, as glance- coal, a mineral composed chiefly of carbon.
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To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment.
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To dart a ray of light or splendour; to fly off obliquely; to look with a sudden rapid cast of the eye; to allude to in passing.
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A rapid or momentary view; a sudden shoot of light or splendour; a name applied to minerals possessing a semi- metallic lustre.
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To dart aside; to shoot, as a ray of light or splendour; to fly off obliquely; to snatch a momentary view.
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Usage examples for glance
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After a glance he closed his eyes again. – The Mandarin's Fan by Fergus Hume
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They understood each other at a word or a glance – Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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His glance met and held hers. – The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
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Caterina cast a glance at Bianchi's face, and shook her head. – Four Phases of Love by Paul Heyse
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He made no other answer than to glance at me quickly. – By Wit of Woman by Arthur W. Marchmont
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And when I saw that glance I understood what he meant by " living." – The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
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At a glance you would have said that he had a great deal of character in his make- up and would get on in the world. – From the Housetops by George Barr McCutcheon
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Desire let her glance go past him. – The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
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A glance passed between Miko and his sister. – Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Various
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At the first glance I saw something moving. – Witness For The Defence by A.E.W. Mason
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She went by him without a glance – The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. Dell
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Well, if you didn't look at it, just come back and give it a glance if you'd be so good. – A Thin Ghost and Others by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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Rosalind gave a meaning glance at Annie Day. – A Sweet Girl Graduate by Mrs. L.T. Meade
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Then her thoughts glance off to the future. – The Italians by Frances Elliot
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Her glance followed his and rested on the supper table too. – Anxious Audrey by Mabel Quiller-Couch
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Mary gave her a grateful glance – Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston
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" We will have better times yet," she promised as she rose to glance at the clock in the tower across the housetops. – Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther
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And Brent let it go, without another glance in its direction. – In the Mayor's Parlour by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
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One glance so Dampier had often since assured her and she never grew tired of hearing it- had been enough. – The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes