Found 4 items, similar to Glances.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: glance
sekilas
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: glance
pandangan sekilas
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: glance
glance
n : a quick look [syn:
glimpse,
coup d'oeil]
glance
v 1: throw a glance at; take a brief look at;
“She only glanced
at the paper”;
“I only peeked--I didn't see anything
interesting” [syn:
peek,
glint]
2: rebound after hitting;
“The car caromed off several
lampposts” [syn:
carom]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Glance
Glance
\Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf.
Gleen,
Glint,
Glitter, and
Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.
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4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.
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Glance
\Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Glanced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glancing.]
1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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From art, from nature, from the schools,
Let random influences glance,
Like light in many a shivered lance,
That breaks about the dappled pools. --Tennyson.
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2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart
aside. ''Your arrow hath glanced''. --Shak.
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On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. --Milton.
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3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a
momentary or hasty view.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven. --Shak.
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4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to
hint; -- often with at.
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Wherein obscurely
C[ae]sar"s ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak.
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He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift.
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5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be
visible only for an instant at a time; to move
interruptedly; to twinkle.
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And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small
glancing feet. --Macaulay.
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Glance
\Glance\, v. t.
1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a
moment; as, to glance the eye.
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2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]
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In company I often glanced it. --Shak.
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