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   Glance

   /ɡlans/

   

   verb

   • 1. take a brief or hurried look: "Ginny glanced at her watch" Similar take a quick looklook quicklylook brieflypeekpeepglimpsecatch a glimpse ofkeekinformal:sneak a looktake a gandertake a dekkohave a shuftitake a butcher'ssquizarchaic:glance one's eyeOpposite gazescrutinize
   • ▪ read quickly or cursorily: "I glanced through your personnel file last night" Similar read quicklyscanhave a quick lookrun one's eye overskimleafflickflipthumbbrowsedip intoinformal:give something a/the once-overOpposite studypore over
   • 2. hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely: "the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head" Similar ricochetreboundbe deflectedflybouncegrazeclipmake contact withcannoncaromrare:resile
   • ▪ (of light) reflect off something with a brief flash: "sunlight glanced off the curved body of a dolphin" Similar reflectflashgleamglintglitterglistenglimmershimmerflickersparkletwinklerare:coruscate
   • ▪ (in ball games) deflect (the ball) slightly with a delicate contact: "he glanced the ball into the corner of the net"

   noun

   • 1. a brief or hurried look: "I stole a glance at John" Similar peekpeepbrief lookquick lookglimpsekeekcoup d'œilinformal:ganderdekkoshuftibutcher'ssquizgeekJack Nohi
   • 2. a flash or gleam of light: archaic "fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats" Similar flashgleamglitterglintglimmershimmerflickersparkletwinkle

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘rebound obliquely’): probably a nasalized form of obsolete glace in the same sense, from Old French glacier ‘to slip’, from glace ‘ice’, based on Latin glacies.

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