Definitions for glance
glæns, glɑnsglance

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. glance, glimpse, coup d'oeilverb

   a quick look

2. glance, peek, glintverb

   throw a glance at; take a brief look at

   "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"

3. glanceverb

   hit at an angle

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. glancenoun

   A brief or cursory look.

2. glancenoun

   A deflection.

3. glancenoun

   A form of mineral with a brilliant lustre.

4. glanceverb

   To look briefly (at something).

   She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.

5. glanceverb

   To graze a surface.

6. glanceverb

   To sparkle

   The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.

7. glanceverb

   To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Glancenoun

   a sudden flash of light or splendor

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

2. Glancenoun

   a quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

3. Glancenoun

   an incidental or passing thought or allusion

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

4. Glancenoun

   a name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

5. Glanceverb

   to shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

6. Glanceverb

   to strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced"

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

7. Glanceverb

   to look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

8. Glanceverb

   to make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

9. Glanceverb

   to move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle

   Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

10. Glanceverb

    to shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye

    Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

11. Glanceverb

    to hint at; to touch lightly or briefly

    Etymology: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Glance

   glans, n. a sudden shoot of light: a darting of the eye: a momentary view: a term applied to minerals exhibiting a pseudo-metallic lustre.—v.i. to dart a ray of light or splendour: to snatch a momentary view: to fly off obliquely: to make a passing allusion.—v.t. to dart suddenly or obliquely: to hint.—n. Glance′-coal, any hard coal, like anthracite, so called from its metallic lustre.—adv. Glanc′ingly. [From a Teut. root seen in Sw. glans, Dut. glans, Ger. glanz, lustre, and allied to Eng. glint.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. glance

   (See NORTHERN-GLANCE.) Also, a name for anthracite coal.

Matched Categories

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'glance' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4028

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'glance' in Nouns Frequency: #1519

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'glance' in Verbs Frequency: #474

How to pronounce glance?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of glance in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of glance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of glance in a Sentence

1. Tom Dening:

   The study makes the assumption that it is reasonable to gather together studies from the other two major coronavirus epidemics of the last 20 years — SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome — and to combine these with the relatively limited data so far available about the effects of Covid-19 upon mental health, it is probably legitimate to do so, but a casual glance at the paper may suggest that the paper is mainly about Covid-19, whereas most of the data come from the earlier virus outbreaks.

2. Jang Dong-won:

   One child missed a friend's hands as the person was swept away by waves, that last glance by the student who couldn't move as a vending machine fell on them.

3. Priscilla Chavez:

   You can look at their face, you can see their eyes glance over at the logo and what it says, and then it's either a face of curiosity or fear.

4. Carl Sagan, Cosmos:

   What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

5. Mhairi Brown:

   Labels allow people to just glance at a product, and see if it is a healthy or less healthy choice.

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