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Definition glance

Etymology

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

Verb

glance (third-person singular simple present glances, present participle glancing, simple past and past participle glanced)

  1. (intransitive) To look briefly (at something).
  2. (intransitive) To graze a surface.
  3. To sparkle.
  4. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
  5. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
  6. (soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
  7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.

Noun

glance (countable and uncountable, plural glances)

  1. A brief or cursory look.
  2. A deflection.
  3. (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
  4. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
  5. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
  6. (mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
  7. (mineralogy) Glance coal.

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CLEAN 10
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ALEC 8
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