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- Dictionaryglance/ɡlans/
verb
- 1. take a brief or hurried look: "Ginny glanced at her watch" Similar Opposite
- 2. hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely: "the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head" Similar
noun
- 1. a brief or hurried look: "I stole a glance at John" Similar
- 2. a flash or gleam of light: archaic "fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats" Similar
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The meaning of GLANCE is to take a quick look at something. How to use glance in a sentence.
to shine, reflect light, or sparkle: glance on The sunlight glanced on the lake. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. glance verb (HIT) [ T ] sports specialized. In cricket, if a batter glances the ball, they hit it quickly and lightly at an angle so that it goes behind them with only a small change of direction:
to look quickly or briefly. to gleam or flash: a silver brooch glancing in the sunlight. Synonyms: scintillate, glisten. to strike a surface or object obliquely, especially so as to bounce off at an angle (often followed by off ): The arrow glanced off his shield. Synonyms: ricochet, reflect.
Glance involves quick contact. When you glance at someone you take a quick peek at them. When a knife blow glances off you, it doesn't penetrate, but hits at an angle. When you glance at someone, it's often because you don't want to be caught staring.
If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately.
1. A brief or cursory look: gave the paper a glance before breakfast. 2. A quick flash of light; a gleam. 3. An oblique movement following impact; a deflection: The car struck the barrier and went off at a glance. Idiom: at first glance. On initial consideration: At first glance the plan seemed unworkable.
glance (at somebody/something) a quick look. to take/have a glance at the newspaper headlines. a cursory/brief/casual/furtive glance. The sisters exchanged glances (= looked at each other). She shot him a sideways glance. He walked away without a backward glance. She stole a glance (= looked secretly) at her watch.
to read something quickly: She glanced through the newspaper. glance. noun. uk / ɡlɑːns / us. B2 [ C ] a quick look: She had a quick glance around the restaurant. at a glance. If you see something at a glance, you see it very quickly or immediately. (Definition of glance from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English glance1 /ɡlɑːns $ ɡlæns/ verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] 1 to quickly look at someone or something glance at/up/down etc The man glanced nervously at his watch. Wyatt glanced around the restaurant.
1. If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately. [...] 2. If you glance through or at a newspaper, report, or book, you spend a short time looking at it without reading it very carefully. [...] 3. A glance is a quick look at someone or something. [...] More. Conjugations of 'glance'
