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Definitions: GLANCING |
GLANCINGAdjective1. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot. 2. Shooting, as light. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Glance |
Date "GLANCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Crosswords: GLANCING |
| English words defined with "GLANCING": absent, absentminded, abstracted ♦ brush ♦ carom ♦ Glancingly ♦ kiss ♦ Planetary aberration ♦ ricochet ♦ scatty, skim, skimming, snick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GLANCING": Back and Edge ♦ Gunpowder ♦ Picatrix. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I did my best to clear Eddie, he said, glancing for affirmation about the crowd that had collected on the porch.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The servant paused, doubtfully glancing from her charge to me, and then back again to the child. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is a maiden glancing like a woman. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They clanked up the highway and rolled away, their dim lights glancing along the road. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GLANCING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.41% of the time. "GLANCING" is used about 675 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.41% | 644 | 10,128 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.59% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 675 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GLANCING": quick-glancing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLANCING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扫视 (Glance, Glanced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | glancing angle roentgenstraaleabsorptionsspektroskopi (glancing angle X-ray absorption spectroscopy), strejfsaar (glancing wound, tangential wound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schram (abrasion, glancing wound, scratch, tangential wound), schaafwonde (glancing wound, tangential wound), absorptiespectroscopie met in een schamphoek invallende roentgenstralen (glancing angle X-ray absorption spectroscopy), absorptiespectrometrie met in een schamphoek invallend rontgenstralen (glancing angle X-ray absorption spectroscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زودگذر (Ephemeral, Fleet, Frail, Glint, Light, Memnetary, Perishable, Shadowy, Temporary, Transient, Transitory), اجمالی (Curt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pintapuolisesti silmäillessä (when glancing over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spectroscopie d'absorption X sous incidence rasante (glancing angle X-ray absorption spectroscopy), diffractomètre réfléchissant angle (glancing angle diffractometer), blessure par éraflure de projectile (glancing wound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | blickend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φασματομετρία απορρόφησης εποστρακιζομένων ακτίνων Χ (glancing angle X-ray absorption spectroscopy), διαθλασίμετρο αποστρακιστικής γωνίας (glancing angle diffractometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "צצ" (glimpse, looking, peeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pelirikan (looking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spettroscopia ad assorbimento di raggi X ad angolo di incidenza (glancing angle X-ray absorption spectroscopy), ferita strisciante (glancing wound, tangential wound), ferita contornante (glancing wound, tangential wound), diffrattometro ad angolo d'incidenza (glancing angle diffractometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 通覧 (glancing through, looking over), 目通し (glancing through), 一渉り (briefly, glancing through, in general), 一渡 (briefly, glancing through, in general). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとわたり (briefly, glancing through, in general), つうら" (glancing through, looking over), めどおし (glancing through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 언뜻 봄. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skyrraghtagh (glancing as blow, slider, slipper, slippery, slitter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ancingglay difractómetro de ângulo de incidência rasante (glancing angle diffractometer). (various references) difractómetro angular de centelleo (glancing angle diffractometer). (various references) hastig (abrupt, cursory, double quick, fleet, fleeting, hasty, hurried, quick, rapid, whirlwind), flyktig (casual, cursorial, cursory, elusive, evanescent, fleet, fleeting, flighty, fugacious, fugitive, quick, transient, voiatile, volatile). (various references) ซึ่งแฉลบไป. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLANCING": glancingly. (additional references) | |
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"GLANCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glencogh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GLANCING" (pronounced gla"nsing) |
| 6 | -l a" n s i ng | Lancing. |
| 5 | -a" n s i ng | advancing, dancing, enhancing, financing, prancing, refinancing, romancing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | announcing, balancing, bouncing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, convincing, denouncing, dispensing, distancing, expensing, experiencing, fencing, freelancing, influencing, lensing, licensing, mensing, mincing, outdistancing, pouncing, pronouncing, rebalancing, referencing, renouncing, rinsing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, trouncing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: clanging. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-g-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: angling, lancing. | |
-2 letters: caging, caning, gingal, lacing. | |
-3 letters: acing, aging, algin, align, clang, cling, liang, ligan, linac, linga. | |
-4 letters: agin, anil, cain, clag, clan, gain, gang, giga, glia, laic, lain, lang, ling, linn, nail. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ani, can, cig, gag, gal, gan, gig, gin, inn, lac, lag, lin, nag, nan, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-g-i-l-n-n" | |
+2 letters: changeling, clangoring, congealing, ganglionic, glancingly. | |
+3 letters: anglicising, anglicizing, challenging, changelings, clangouring. | |
+4 letters: conglobating, unchangingly. | |
+5 letters: acknowledging, challengingly, encouragingly, glycerinating, preganglionic, rechallenging, unchallenging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4C 41 4E 43 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. .- -. -.-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G L A N C I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004C 0041 004E 0043 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4146354837434841 |
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