glance
verb
[ ɡlɑːns ]
• take a brief or hurried look.
• "Ginny glanced at her watch"
Similar:
take a quick look,
look quickly,
look briefly,
peek,
peep,
glimpse,
catch a glimpse of,
keek,
sneak a look,
take a gander,
take a dekko,
have a shufti,
take a butcher's,
squiz,
glance one's eye,
• hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely.
• "the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head"
Similar:
ricochet,
rebound,
be deflected,
fly,
bounce,
graze,
clip,
make contact with,
cannon,
carom,
resile,
glance
noun
• a brief or hurried look.
• "I stole a glance at John"
Similar:
peek,
peep,
brief look,
quick look,
glimpse,
keek,
coup d'œil,
gander,
dekko,
shufti,
butcher's,
squiz,
geek,
Jack Nohi,
• a flash or gleam of light.
• "fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats"
• a stroke with the bat's face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘rebound obliquely’): probably a nasalized form of obsolete glace in the same sense, from Old French glacier ‘to slip’, from glace ‘ice’, based on Latin glacies .
glance
noun
• a shiny black or grey sulphide ore of lead, copper, or other metal.
• "lead glance"
Origin:
late Middle English: from German Glanz ‘brightness, lustre’; compare with Dutch glanserts ‘glance ore’.
