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glance (glans, gläns)

intransitive verb glanced, glancing glanc′·ing

  1. to strike a surface obliquely and go off at an angle: usually with off
  2. to make an indirect or passing reference: with over, at, etc.
  3. to flash or gleam
  4. to look suddenly and briefly; take a quick look

Etymology: ME glansen, glenchen, prob. a blend < OFr glacier, to slip (see glacis) + guenchir, to elude < Frank *wenkjan, to totter; akin to OE wancol, unstable

transitive verb

to cause (an object) to strike a surface at an angle and be deflected

noun

  1. a glancing off; deflected impact
  2. a flash or gleam
  3. a quick look
glance2 definition

glance (glans)

noun

any of various ores with a metallic luster: now applied to only a few metallic ores, such as silver glance ( argentite) and lead glance ( galena)

Etymology: Ger glanz, lit., luster: for IE base see glass

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glance Synonyms

glance

n.

glimpse, sight, flash, fleeting impression; see look 3. See syn. study at flash.


glance

v.

  1. To look

    see, peep, glimpse; see look 2.

  2. To ricochet

    skip, slide, carom, rebound, careen, brush, skim, touch, graze, dart, bounce; see also hit 3.


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glance Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • admire: I was a die-hard wintel user for many years, paying only the occasional admiring glance at Macs.

Adjective modifier

  • cursory: Even a cursory glance at Hurd's outstanding book reveals his dependable traits.

Preposition: in

  • mirror: We shot our story without even a glance in the mirror trusting that " happy on the inside " would translate.
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glance quotes

For I have a song to sing,O!† It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng,O! It's the song of a merryman moping mum, Whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever his glance falls he turns all things to beauty.

-StJohn of the Cross originally Juan deYepes yAŁ   lvarez

These people in the senseless hurry of their idle lives do not read books, they merely snatch a glance at them that they may talk about them. And even if this were not so, never forget what I believe was observed by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

-Wordsworth,William

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