What does glance mean?
Definitions for glance
glæns, glɑnsglance
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word glance.
Princeton's WordNet
glance, glimpse, coup d'oeilverb
a quick look
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"
glanceverb
hit at an angle
Wiktionary
glancenoun
A brief or cursory look.
glancenoun
A deflection.
glancenoun
A form of mineral with a brilliant lustre.
glanceverb
To look briefly (at something).
She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
glanceverb
To graze a surface.
glanceverb
To sparkle
The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
glanceverb
To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
Webster Dictionary
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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
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
glance
(See NORTHERN-GLANCE.) Also, a name for anthracite coal.
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Rank popularity for the word 'glance' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4028
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Rank popularity for the word 'glance' in Nouns Frequency: #1519
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'glance' in Verbs Frequency: #474
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of glance in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of glance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of glance in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
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.
Labels allow people to just glance at a product, and see if it is a healthy or less healthy choice.
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Translations for glance
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- cop d'ullCatalan, Valencian
- letmý, pohledCzech
- Streifblick, blicken, Glanz, Blick, SteinkohleGerman
- vistazo, mirada, ojear, pispear, mirar, echar un vistazoSpanish
- pilk, pilku heitmaEstonian
- silmätä, pälyillä, kiilto, kiille, vilkaisu, vilkaista, silmäysFinnish
- coup d'œil, jeter un coup d’œilFrench
- spléachadhIrish
- plathadh, sùilScottish Gaelic
- झलकHindi
- pillantásHungarian
- sekilasIndonesian
- occhiata, scorsa, dare un'occhiata, guardata, sguardo, sbirciataItalian
- 一目, 一目見る, 一瞥Japanese
- ನೋಟKannada
- چاو بخشێنهKurdish
- glanceLatin
- kaperua, karipiMāori
- spojrzeniePolish
- deflexão, relancePortuguese
- глянуть, взглянуть, взглядRussian
- చూపులోTelugu
- loged viföfikVolapük
- 一瞥Chinese
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