glance

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

glance

past (v2)

glanced

past participle (v3)

glanced

present participle

glancing

3rd person singular

glances

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

glances

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.

   • Vivian glanced a look, which would have been annihilation to any one, not a freeholder of five hundred acres.
   • He, however, blenched not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros.

2. 2.To look briefly at (something).

3. 3.To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.

   • The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware, which was most strictly and critically clean, glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment.

4. 4.To cause (something) to move obliquely.

   • Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when [Kevin] Doyle sent [Stephen] Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A brief or cursory look.

   • Strangers in the night exchanging glances / Wondering in the night, what were the chances?
   • 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.
   • He passed the papers through his hands, turning some over with a hasty glance, and dwelling on others as if their contents had been of the last importance.

2. 2.A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.

   • Is it the lightning’s quivering glance / That on the thicket streams, / Or do they flash on spear and lance / The sun’s retiring beams?

3. 3.A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.

4. 4.Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: an act of rapidly touching the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.

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