glance

Meaning of glance

noun
  1. A brief or cursory look.
  2. A deflection.
  3. A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
  4. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
  5. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
  6. Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
    copper glance
  7. Glance coal.
verb
  1. To look briefly (at something).
    She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
  2. To graze a surface.
  3. To sparkle.
    The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
  4. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
  5. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
  6. To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
  7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
  8. A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.

Information about glance

  • The plural form of glance is: glances.
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Hyphenation of glance

glance

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • glance is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

glance synonyms

Meaning glimpse:

glimpse

Meaning peek:

peek, glint

Meaning carom:

carom

Translation of glance

Anagrams of glance

cangle

Words that rhyme with glance

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