glance
English
/ɡlɑːns/, /ɡlæns/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To look briefly (at something).
- (intransitive) To graze a surface.
- To sparkle.
- 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.
- (soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- (ichthyology) 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English glacen (graze, strike a glancing blow) derived from Old French glacier (make slippery, slip).
Origin
Old French
glacier
Gloss
make slippery, slip
Concept
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Cognates and derived terms
- eye English
- eyeglance English
- glanceability English
- glanceable English
- glanceful English
- glanceless English
- glancer English
- glancest English
- glanceth English
- overglance English
- side English
- sideglance English
- sideglancer English
- upglance English
- glacen Middle English
- glacier Old French