glance

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English glacen (“to graze, strike a glancing blow”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French glacier (“to slip, make slippery”). Sense of "look quickly" (first recorded 1580s) probably was influenced in form and meaning by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English glenten (“to look askance”). See glint.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːns, -æns

Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To look briefly (at something).
    She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
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      c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
      The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
  2. (intransitive) To graze a surface.
  3. To sparkle.
    The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
    • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.
  4. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
    • (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, / His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.
  5. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Your arrow hath glanced.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      On me the curse aslope / Glanced on the ground.
    • 1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal
      I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"
  6. (soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
    • 2011 January 18, “Wolverhampton 5 - 0 Doncaster”, in BBC‎[1]:
      Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when Doyle sent Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.
  7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.
    • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.

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Nomen

glance (countable and uncountable, plural glances)

  1. A brief oder cursory look.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
      Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
  2. A deflection.
  3. (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
  4. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      swift as the lightning glance
  5. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Cowper and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      How fleet is a glance of the mind.
  6. (mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
    copper glance
    silver glance
  7. (mineralogy) Glance coal.
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