Glance
21glance — Synonyms and related words: Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, attouchement, avert, balefire, be bright, beacon, beacon fire, beam, bear off, beat the drum, bedazzle, bell, bell buoy, blaze, blaze of light, blind, blink, blinker …
22glance*/ — [glɑːns] verb [I] I 1) to look somewhere quickly and then look away ‘I must go, Claudia said, glancing at her watch.[/ex] Robin glanced around the room.[/ex] 2) to read something quickly and not very carefully I hadn t even glanced at the… …
23Glance — Harvey Glance (* 28. März 1957 in Phenix City, Alabama) ist ein US amerikanischer Leichtathlet, der in den späten 1970er und in den 1980er Jahren über 100 m erfolgreich war. Karriere Harvey Glance gewann fünf Goldmedaillen als Mitglied der 4x100m …
24glance — 01. When I [glanced] at the paper this morning, I saw a picture of someone I used to go to school with. 02. Can you take a quick [glance] at my essay, and see if it looks okay to you? 03. The child [glanced] at his mother to see if she was… …
25glance — {{11}}glance (n.) c.1500, sudden movement producing a flash, from GLANCE (Cf. glance) (v.). Meaning brief or hurried look is from 1590s. {{12}}glance (v.) mid 15c., of weapons, from glacen to graze, strike a glancing blow (c.1300), from O.Fr.… …
26glance at — Synonyms and related words: adumbrate, allude to, cast a glance, dip into, drop a hint, examine cursorily, flip, give a hint, give the cue, give the once over, glance, glimpse, glint, hint, hint at, imply, indicate, insinuate, intimate, page… …
27glance — [15] ‘Touch or deflect lightly’, as in ‘glance off something’ and a ‘glancing blow’, is the primary meaning of glance; ‘look briefly’ did not develop until the 16th century. The word may have originated as an alteration of the Middle English verb …
28glance — glance1 verb 1》 take a brief or hurried look. ↘(glance at/through) read quickly or cursorily. 2》 (often glance off) strike at an angle and bounce off obliquely. noun 1》 a brief or hurried look. 2》 archaic a flash or gleam of light. 3》 Cricket …
29glance — 1. verb 1) Rachel glanced at him Syn: look briefly, look quickly, peek, peep; glimpse; informal have a gander 2) I glanced through the report Syn: read quickly, scan, skim through, leaf through, flip through …
30glance — [[t]glæns, glɑns[/t]] v. glanced, glanc•ing, n. 1) to look quickly or briefly 2) to gleam or flash; scintillate 3) to strike a surface or object obliquely, esp. so as to bounce off at an angle (often fol. by off): The arrow glanced off his… …
