glance

Speech parts

1. glance - Noun

2. glance - Verb

Meaning

A sudden flash of light or splendor.

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

An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.

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On film you put all your energies into a single glance. Alan Rickman

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. James Thurber

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair. Joseph Conrad

The winter does not leave without a backward glance. Finnish Proverb

For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future. Arabic Proverb

Prying with sidelong glance into other people's business. Latin Proverb

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