Definição de 'glance'

Frequência da palavra

glance

(glɑːns , glæns)

Formas da palavra:plural, 3rd person singular present tense glances , present participle glancing , past tense, past participle glanced

1. verbo

If you glance at something or someone, you look at them very quickly and then look away again immediately.

He glanced at his watch. [VERB preposition/adverb]

I glanced back. [VERB preposition/adverb]

Sinônimos:peek, look, view, check Mais sinônimos de glance

2. verbo

If you glance through or at a newspaper, report, or book, you spend a short time looking at it without reading it very carefully.

I picked up the phone book and glanced through it. [VERB + through]

I never even glanced at the political page of a daily paper. [VERB + at]

Sinônimos:scan, browse, dip into, leaf through Mais sinônimos de glance

3. substantivo contável

A glance is a quick look at someone or something.

Trevor and I exchanged a glance.

...stealing a quick glance at her watch.

Sinônimos:peek, look, glimpse, peep Mais sinônimos de glance

Verbos frasais:

Mais sinônimos de glance

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glance in American 1

(glæns ; glans; glɑns ; gläns)

verbo intransitivoFormas da palavra:glanced or ˈglancing

to strike a surface obliquely and go off at an angle

usually with off

to make an indirect or passing reference

with over, at, etc.

to flash or gleam

to look suddenly and briefly; take a quick look

verbo transitivo

to cause (an object) to strike a surface at an angle and be deflected

substantivo

a glancing off; deflected impact

a flash or gleam

a quick look

SIMILAR WORDS: flash

Origem da palavra glance

ME glansen, glenchen, prob. a blend < OFr glacier, to slip (see glacis) + guenchir, to elude < Frank *wenkjan, to totter; akin to OE wancol, unstable

Frequência da palavra

glance in American 2

(glæns ; glans)

substantivo

any of various ores with a metallic luster: now applied to only a few metallic ores, as silver glance ( argentite) and lead glance ( galena)

Origem da palavra glance

Ger glanz, lit., luster: for IE base see glass

Frequência da palavra

glance in British 1

(ɡlɑːns )

verbo

1. (intransitive)

to look hastily or briefly

2. (intr; foll by over, through, etc)

to look over briefly

to glance through a report

3. (intransitive)

to reflect, glint, or gleam

the sun glanced on the water

4. (intransitive; usually foll by off)

to depart (from an object struck) at an oblique angle

the arrow glanced off the tree

5. (transitive)

to strike at an oblique angle

the arrow glanced the tree

substantivo

a hasty or brief look; peep

7. at a glance

a flash or glint of light; gleam

the act or an instance of an object glancing or glancing off another

10.

a brief allusion or reference

11. cricket

a stroke in which the ball is deflected off the bat to the leg side; glide

▶ USAGE Glance is sometimes wrongly used where glimpse is meant: he caught a glimpse (not glance) of her making her way through the crowd

Formas derivadas

glancing (ˈglancing)

adjectivo

glancingly (ˈglancingly)

advérbio

Origem da palavra glance

C15: modification of glacen to strike obliquely, from Old French glacier to slide (see glacis); compare Middle English glenten to make a rapid sideways movement, glint

Frequência da palavra

glance in British 2

(ɡlɑːns )

substantivo

any mineral having a metallic lustre, esp a simple sulphide

copper glance

Origem da palavra glance

C19: from German Glanz brightness, lustre

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