GLANCE
glance
Noun
- A brief or cursory look.
- A deflection.
- A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side
- A sudden flash of light or splendour.
- An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
- Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
- copper glance
- glance coal
Verb
- To look briefly (at something).
- She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
- To graze a surface.
- To sparkle.
- The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
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