Glance word meaning and definition
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[verb] rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several lampposts"
[verb] throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "glint" is archaic; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
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\Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glanced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glancing}.] 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. --Tennyson. 2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. ''Your arrow hath glanced''. --Shak. On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. --Milton. 3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. 4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. Wherein obscurely C[ae]sar"s ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak. He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift. 5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. --Macaulay.
\Glance\, v. t. 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. 2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.] In company I often glanced it. --Shak.
Synonyms for glance
carom, coup d'oeil, glimpse, glint, peek
See also: bounce | bound | eye-beaming | look | look | looking | looking at | rebound | recoil | resile | reverberate | ricochet | side-glance | side-look | spring | take a hop |
Related terms: beam, beat the drum, bedazzle, careen, cast, dap, exchange colors, flash, fog signal, furbish, glisten, gloss, half an eye, jib, make a sign, make way for, polish, raise a cry, semaphore, shine brightly, sidestep, sidle, signal post, sleek, slick, step aside, switch, traffic signal, turn back, wigwag
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Let's analyse "glance" as pure text. This string has Six letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: ECNALG. Average typing speed for these characters is 1680 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
glance: 1 + 5 = 6, reduced: 6 . and the final result is Six. |
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