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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"
GLANCE definition: 1. to give a quick short look: 2. to shine, reflect light, or sparkle: 3. In cricket, if a batter…. Learn more.
The meaning of GLANCE is to take a quick look at something. How to use glance in a sentence.
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.
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.
A glance is a quick look at someone or something. Trevor and I exchanged a glance. ...stealing a quick glance at her watch.
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.
Definitions of 'glance' 1. If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately. [...] 2. If you glance through or at a newspaper, report, or book, you spend a short time looking at it without reading it very carefully.
glance meaning, definition, what is glance: to quickly look at someone or something: Learn more.
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)
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.
