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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. GLANCEnoun

   Etymology: glantz, German, glitter.

   1. A sudden shoot of light or splendour.

   His off’ring soon propitious fire from heav’n
   Consum’d with nimble glance, and grateful steam:
   The other’s not; for his was not sincere. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

   2. A stroke or dart of the beam of sight.

   The aspects which procure love are not gazings, but sudden glances and dartings of the eye. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.

   There are of those sort of beauties which last but for a moment; some particularity of a violent passion, some graceful action, a smile, a glance of an eye, a disdainful look, and a look of gravity. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   3. A snatch of sight; a quick view.

   The ample mind takes a survey of several objects with one glance. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

2. To Glanceverb

   To move nimbly; to shoot obliquely.

   Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,
   Enough to press a royal merchant down. William Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven.

3. To Glanceverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To shoot a sudden ray of splendour.

   He double blows about him fiercely laid,
   That glancing fire out of the iron play’d,
   As sparkles from the anvil use,
   When heavy hammers on the wedge are sway’d. Fai. Queen.

   When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly,
   Heavy the rattling thunders roll on high. Nicholas Rowe.

   2. To fly off in an oblique direction.

   He has a little gall’d me, I confess;
   But as the jest did glance away from me,
   ’Tis ten to one it maim’d you two outright. William Shakespeare.

   3. To strike in an oblique direction.

   Pois’d in air, the jav’lin sent,
   Through Paris’ shield the forceful weapon went,
   His corslet pierces, and his garment rends,
   And glancing downwards near his flank descends. Alexander Pope.

   4. To view with a quick cast of the eye; to play the eye.

   O’ th’ sudden up they rise and dance,
   Then sit again, and sigh and glance;
   Then dance again, and kiss. John Suckling.

   Mighty dulness crown’d,
   Shall take through Grub-street her triumphant round;
   And her Parnassus glancing o’er at once,
   Behold a hundred sons, and each a dunce. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

   The cooing dove
   Flies thick in am’rous chace, and wanton rolls
   The glancing eye, and turns the changeful scene. James Thomson.

   5. To censure by oblique hints.

   How can’st thou thus, for shame, Titania,
   Glance at my credit with Hippolita,
   Knowing I know thy love to Theseus? William Shakespeare.

   Some men glance and dart at others, by justifying themselves by negatives; as to say, this I do not. Francis Bacon, Essay 23.

   I have never glanced upon the late designed procession of his holiness and his attendants, notwithstanding it might have afforded matter to many ludicrous speculations. Joseph Addison, Spect.

   It was objected against him that he had written verses, wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for dulness. Jonathan Swift.

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

1. Glancenoun

   a sudden flash of light or splendor

2. Glancenoun

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

3. Glancenoun

   an incidental or passing thought or allusion

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

5. Glanceverb

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

6. Glanceverb

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

7. Glanceverb

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

8. Glanceverb

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

9. Glanceverb

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

10. Glanceverb

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

11. Glanceverb

    to hint at; to touch lightly or briefly

12. 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.

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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

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1. cangle

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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. Javier Soch and Seth Ortega:

   The game is no different, when we’re walking around we take turns we kind of glance at the phone while the other looks up and around, it’s just something that we’re taught to do.

2. Adam Grossman:

   If I see you (a company executive) tense up with a question or glance at your chief financial officer, I'm picking that up, it's not a violation (of RegFD) -- but it's an advantage.

3. Janine Barchas:

   There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Jane Austen, who did die prematurely.

4. Alphonse de Lamartine:

   If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

5. John Muir:

   There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

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