Glance

Definition: Glance

Glance

Noun

1. A quick look.

Verb

1. 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".

2. Rebound after hitting: "The car caromed off several lampposts".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Glance \Glance\, noun. [Akin to Dutch glans luster, brightness, German glanz, Swedish glans, Dutch glands brightness, glimpse. Compare to Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glancea mineral.]. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Glance

Attention

Examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into, perstringe; skim; (neglect); take a cursory view of.

Beginning

First stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight.

Deviation

Fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle; (oscillate); go out of one's way; (perform a circuit); lose one's way.

Disapprobation

Animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; "hint a fault and hesitate dislike"; not to be able to say much for.

Divergence

Verb: diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part; (separate).

Fuel

Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.

Indication

Make a sign; n. signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink; gesticulate; raise the finger, hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up the hand; saw the air, "suit the action to the word".

Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent.

Information

Hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink; (indicate); suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear.

Intelligence Wisdom

See through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see through a millstone; penetrate; discern; (descry); foresee.

Crosswords: Glance

and cunningly disguised so it won't look like a racing car, you know. The cops would never give that a second glance! (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates)

If he's a Greystoke, I'll know him at a glance! (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; writing credit: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Robert Towne)

We, we glance at things, we watch television (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski)

But as a gentleman, I must warn you, if you so much as glance at another woman, I'll be on Leela like a fly on a pile of very seductive manure (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I am dancing, I can not control where my glance goes, and when I can control it, my glance goes to Dean (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Risking it all in a glance (As Long As You Love Me; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

I get weak in a glance (Lost In Your Eyes; performing artist: Debbie Gibson)

Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Love was just a glance away, (Strangers in the Night; performing artist: Frank Sinatra)

You're so together boy but just at a glance (Black Cat; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Arabic at a Glance Phrase Book & Dictionary for Travelers: Phrase Book & Dictionary for Travelers (At a Glance Series) (reference)

• Japanese Verbs at a Glance (reference)

• Korean at a Glance (reference)

• Usonian Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright at a Glance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Latin America At A Glance (reference)

• Northern Territory At A Glance (reference)

• Statistics At A Glance (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Emmanuelle 6: A Glance (reference)

• Second Glance (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Second Glance : A Parallel Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe & Clara Schumann (reference)

• Just a Passing Glance (reference)

• Navy's Motor Ride: Glance Back at Music Hall on (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Office 2000 Pro At a Glance (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Glance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. F.S. Chanfrau "as Mose" in the new piece called "A glance at New York" / J.L.M. del. ; lith. of J. Baillie. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She gave a slight glance round the table, and applied herself to it.

With glance that ever sought the ground, She moved her lips without a sound, And every now and then she frowned

The minister appeared to see him, with the same glance that discerned the miraculous letter

A single glance without was an act of perfidy

In a glance he noted that every figure of the group was familiar and ran down the steps angrily

She did not glance at them as the Hudson went by.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Government regulations at first glance sometimes appear too harsh and have a reverse effect on the general picture. (references)

It is possible to see at a glance how each dollar of sales is distributed among various costs, expenses, and profits. (references)

A glance at the market share columns in table 7 and 8 shows how dependent firms are on only one or two products for their commercial existence. (references)

Economic History

Germany

Other sectors, such as the water industry or road haulage may appear to be in general open to competition, but do not at a first glance lend themselves easily to U.S. involvement. (references)

Ukraine

Although foreigners may at first glance find Ukraine's import regime daunting, experience shows that it is not insurmountable and is comparable to other transitional economies in the region. (references)

Travel

Korea

At first glance, Korea appears to be "just like any other nation." Its capital city, Seoul, is a modern, thriving metropolis with all of the latest technology the world has to offer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "glance": a furtive glance ♦ a meaningful glance ♦ a surreptitious glance ♦ antimony glance ♦ at a glance ♦ at first glance ♦ backward glance ♦ basilisk glance ♦ Bismuth glance ♦ brittle silver glance ♦ cast a glance ♦ cast a transient glance at ♦ casual glance ♦ Cobalt glance ♦ copper glance ♦ first glance ♦ flash a glance ♦ furtive glance ♦ give smb. a sidelong glance ♦ glance at ♦ glance at from time to time ♦ glance away ♦ Glance coal ♦ Glance cobalt ♦ Glance copper ♦ glance down ♦ glance off ♦ glance off a subject ♦ glance off smth. ♦ glance one's eye over ♦ glance over ♦ glance pitch ♦ glance round ♦ glance through ♦ glance up ♦ Glance wood ♦ have a glance ♦ Iron glance ♦ Lead glance ♦ Lightning glance ♦ passing glance ♦ recognition at a glance ♦ regretful glance ♦ reproachful glance ♦ running glance ♦ shoot a glance ♦ shoot a glance at smb. ♦ side glance ♦ sidelong glance ♦ silver glance ♦ steal a glance ♦ steal a glance at ♦ steal a glance at smb. ♦ take a glance at ♦ take in at a glance ♦ Tellurium glance ♦ throw a glance at smb. ♦ upward glance. Additional references.

Ending with "glance": at-a-glance, at-first-glance, first-glance, half-glance, side-glance.

Albanian

vezullon (blink, click, coruscate, glint), vezullim (glimmering, twinkle), shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, diverge, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate, wander), shkreptin (fulminate, stare), shkrepje (flare, gun), shikoj (eye, glance over, keep an eye on, look, overlook, see, sight, take a gander, take a look at, view, watch), shikim i shpejtë (eyebeam, glimpse, look in), i hedh një shikim, bëj një aluzion kalimthi, aluzion kalimthi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظرة خاطفة (glimpse), ‏لمحة (glimpse, quick, sight), ‏لمح إلي, ‏ومضة (gleam, scintillation, sparkle), ‏ألقى نظرة سريعة (quick), ‏أومض (blink, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle), ‏بريق (blaze, brightness, burnish, flame, gleam, glimmering, glitter, gloss, loudness, luster, opalescence, refulgence, sheen, shine, spark, twinkle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удар на косо, рикоширам (drift, glance off, rebound, ricochet, skip), хвърлям поглед (take a gander), отскачам (bounce, bound, carom, jump, jump back, kick, nip, rebound, recoil, resile, skip, spring, take off), отразявам (effect, give back, glass, image, mirror, reflect, reverberate, throw back), лъскам (brighten, furbish, gloss, grind, polish, satin, scour, shine, smooth, varnish), бегъл поглед (glimpse, look in, look-see, scan, squint), блясък (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, dash, eclat, effulgence, fire, flash, glamor, glamour, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glossiness, heraldry, illumination, irradiation, lambency, light, luminance, luminosity, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), блестя (blaze, coruscate, dazzle, gleam, glitter, glow, irradiate, scintillate, shine, shine out, sparkle, twinkle), проблясък (flight, glimmer, glimmering, glint). (various references)

Chinese 

瞰 (bird's-eye view), 瞥 (blink, pearl used in sacrifice), 矙 (bird's-eye view), 扫视 (Glanced, Glancing), 一瞥 (glimpse). (various references)

Czech

rychlý pohled (peek). (various references)

Danish

fæstne blikket på (to look, view), betragte (consider, deem, look, look at, regard, view, watch), at se (to look, view). (various references)

Dutch

een blik werpen op, een blik werpen. (various references)

Esperanto

ekrigardi. (various references)

Farsi 

مرور (Lapse, Perusal, Revisal, Revision, Tract), نگاه مختصرکردن , نگاه مختصر (Blink), نگاه (Look, Regard), نظراجمالی کردن , نظراجمالی (Glimpse), خراشیدن (Chafe, Erase, Graze, Rase, Scrape, Scrub), اشاره کردن وردشدن برق زدن , به یک نظردیدن , براندازکردن , برانداز. (various references)

Finnish

vilkaisu (look), vilkaista (look, look over), silmäys (look, survey), pälyillä (gaze, give a sidelong glances, peer), katse (gaze, look), katsaus (look, review, survey), katsahtaa (look). (various references)

French

regarder, regard rapide (glimpse), regard, reflet (gleam, glint), lueur (gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, glint, glow), lancer un regard (flash a glance), jeter un coup d'œil (glance one's eye over), faire un signe, coup d'œil (glimpse), cligner, étinceler (gleam, glisten). (various references)

German

blicken (consider, deem, look, peep, regard, to glance, view, watch), Streifblick. (various references)

Greek 

ματιά (glimpse, look, twinkle). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבט חטוף (glimpse), מבט (aspect, gaze, glimpse, look, regard, view), להעיף מבט (flash a glance), לסקור (explore, inspect, look, look over, review, scan, survey), העפת מבט, הבטה (looking at), סקירה (look, review, survey), סקור (coverage, look, outlook, review, survey). (various references)

Hungarian

tekint (deem, look, to consider, to look, to reckon, to regard, to take for granted), pillantás (blink, cast, coup d'oeil, eye, look, look full of gratitude, regard, steely glance, telling look, twinkle), pillant (to glance, to peer). (various references)

Indonesian

pandangan sekilas (glimpse, once over). (various references)

Italian

occhiata (blink, glimpse, look, peek, peep). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

視線 (look, one's eyes), 一見 (a glimpse, a look, first meeting, never before met, unfamiliar), 一目　 (glimpse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しせん (branch line, great poet, look, one's eyes, personal selection, point between life and death, selected poems, Szechwan, verge of death), いっけん (a glimpse, a house, a look, a matter, an item, first meeting, one dog, one ken, six feet). (various references)

Korean 

섬광 (Flash, Flashes, scintillation). (various references)

Manx

sooilleragh (eye, leer), skyrraghtyn (drop, skate, skating, sliding, slip, slipping, slither), shilley bieau. (various references)

Norwegian

se (behold, look, see), blikk (can, glare, look, tin, tin can). (various references)

Pig Latin

anceglay.(various references)

Portuguese

golpe de vista, olharderelance, brilho súbito (flash), insinuar (hint, imply, innuendo, insinuate, instil, instill, intimate, suggest), lançar o olhar, luzir (lamp, shine, sparkle), mineral lustroso, brilhar (burn, flame, flash, flourish, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, irradiate, lamp, lighten, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle), olhar com intenção, vislumbre (gleam, glimmer, glimpse, ray, twinkle), raio de luz (glint, stream), reflexo (glimmer, glimmering, glisten, ray, reflection, reflective, reflex, reflexion, reflexive, repercussion), relance (blush), relancear, resvalar (skid, slide, slither), ricochete (rebound, resilience, resiliency, ricochet), visão (eye, eyesight, intuition, point of view, shadow, sight, vision), olhadela (eye-beam, keek, look, peep). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

olhada. (various references)

Romanian

ocheadã (squint), arunca o privire la (give a look at, glimpse, have a look at), aruncãturã de ochi (glimpse, peep), atinge uşor (brush, dab, kiss, lay a finger upon, skim, touch), cãutãturã (appearance, gaze, glare, look, peep, regard, stare, view), devia (deflect, depart, digress, diverge, drift, straggle, swerve, wander, warp), licãri (flash, gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle, wink), aluneca într-o parte, luci (burnish, gleam, glisten, shine, sparkle), uitãturã (look, regard), ochire (eye, insight, levelling, look, regard, sight, view), privi (appertain to, behold, concern, consider, gaze, give a look at, have a look at, look, look on, regard, see, touch, view), privire (flash, insight, look, regard, sight, view), råsfoi, scânteia (coruscate, flash, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, kindle, scintillate, spark, sparkle, twinkle), scânteie (gleam, spark, sparkle), strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), licãrire (blink, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glitter, Ray, shimmer, spark, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle). (various references)

Russian 

взгляд (aspect, eyewink, look, regard, slant, view). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pogledati (behold, eye, give a look, look, see, take a look at), pogled (eyewink, look, outlook, regard, respect, sight, view, vista), odblesak (gleam, luster, lustre, reflection). (various references)

Spanish

vistazo (blush, browse, gander, look, once-over, squint), vista (appearance, aspect, caller, examination, exterior, eyesight, fondness, hearing, look, perspective, seeing, show, sight, take, takeoff, view, vision, visitor, vista), ojeada (look, peek), mirar (consider, deem, eye, look, look about, look after, look around, look at, look on, look to, peer, regard, see, survey, touch on, view, watch), mirada (eagerness, gaze, look, peek, regard). (various references)

Swedish

titt (dip, look, peek, peep), kasta en blick (cast a glance), blick (eye, gaze, look, peep, regard, stare), ögonkast (look). (various references)

Thai

ชำเลือง, การชำเลือง. (various references)

Turkish

göz gezdirmek (cast an eye, glance at, glance over, look over, rove, rove about, shoot a glance, skim, skim over, take a glance at), göz atmak (blink at, dig, dip, dip into, flash a glance, flick through, give an eye to, give the once-over, glance at, glimpse, have a dekko, look at, scan, shoot a glance, skim over, take a gander, take a glance at), sıyırma (abrasion, graze), parlak, kükürtlü mineral, parıltı (blink, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), parıldamak (gleam, glimmer, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), kısa bakış (look in), imâ, bakıvermek (have a dekko, have a look-see), bakış (blink, dekko, eye, gander, look, regard, slant, view). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцz (eye, vision), nazar (look, view), bakyю. (various references)

Ukrainian

швидкий погляд (eye-beam, peep), кинути погляд, блискати (flash, fulminate, glint), блиск (blaze, brightness, brilliance, burnish, coruscation, effulgence, irradiation, luster, lustre, oriency, pomp, resplendence, scintillation, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), промайнути (flash, glimpse, pass, pass off, shoot along, shoot forth, slip, snick, streak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tia loé lên sự sượt qua, cái nhìn thoáng qua, cái liếc qua tia loáng qua. (various references)

Welsh

cipolwg (glimpse), cipedrych (glimpse), cipdrem (glimpse). (various references)

acie, aciem, acies, defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, tendat, tendebant, tendebatur, tendens, tendent, tendentem, tendentes, tenderent, tendit, tendunt, tetenderat, tetenderunt, tetenderuntque, tetendit, tetenditque. (various references)

glacer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "glance": glanced, glancer, glancers, glances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Glance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alance, flance, Gallansch, Galucci, Gance, ganche, Ganchev, giance, glac, glacee, glacen, glacey, Glack, glancer, glande, glane, glaner, Glascol, glauce, Glcnac, gleace, Glencogh, Glenice, Glienecke, Glienicke, glince, gline, Gloanec, goace, grance, Grancey, slance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: angel, angle, clang, clean, glace, glean, lance.

-2 letters: acne, alec, cage, cane, clag, clan, egal, elan, gaen, gale, gane, glen, lace, lane, lang, lean.

-3 letters: ace, age, ale, ane, can, cel, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, lac, lag, lea, leg, nae, nag.

-4 letters: ae, ag, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne.

+1 letter: angelic, anglice, clanged, clanger, congeal, galenic, glanced, glancer, glances.

+2 letters: aglycone, angelica, cageling, clangers, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleaving, collagen, congeals, elegance, elegancy, enlacing, glaceing, glancers, lacewing, leaching, octangle, relacing.

+3 letters: aglycones, allogenic, analgesic, analgetic, angelical, angelicas, anglicise, anglicize, archangel, becalming, bleaching, cagelings, canceling, cellaring, chalcogen, challenge, changeful, chelating, cingulate, clangored, clavering, cleansing, clearings, clearwing, clergyman, clientage, cognately, coleading, collagens, collegian, congealed, congenial, declaring, declawing, elegances, emplacing, evangelic, flagrance, galenical, genetical, genically, genitalic, genocidal, gerfalcon, gluconate, lacewings, lackering, lackeying, neuralgic, octangles, parceling, plangency, pleaching, recalling, recoaling, rectangle, replacing, rescaling, vigilance.