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- DictionaryGlance/ɡlans/
verb
- 1. take a brief or hurried look: "Ginny glanced at her watch"
- 2. hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely: "the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head"
noun
- 1. a brief or hurried look: "I stole a glance at John"
- 2. a flash or gleam of light: archaic "fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats"
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.
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. to allude briefly to a topic or subject in passing (usually followed by at ). verb (used with object) , Archaic. , glanced, glanc·ing.
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. ( intr) to look hastily or briefly. 2. ( intr; foll by over, through, etc) to look over briefly: to glance through a report. 3. ( intr) to reflect, glint, or gleam: the sun glanced on the water. 4. (usually foll by: off) to depart (from an object struck) at an oblique angle: the arrow glanced off the tree.
If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately.
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)
If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately.
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.
Definition of glance verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
