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    glance
    [ɡlans]
    verb
    glance (verb) · glances (third person present) · glanced (past tense) · glanced (past participle) · glancing (present participle)
    1. take a brief or hurried look:
      "Ginny glanced at her watch"
      • (glance at/through)
        read quickly or cursorily:
        "I glanced through your personnel file last night"
    2. hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely:
      "the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head"
      • (of light) reflect off something with a brief flash:
        "sunlight glanced off the curved body of a dolphin"
      • (in ball games) deflect (the ball) slightly with a delicate contact:
        "he glanced the ball into the corner of the net"
    noun
    glance (noun) · glances (plural noun)
    1. a brief or hurried look:
      "I stole a glance at John"
    2. archaic
      a flash or gleam of light:
      "fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats"
    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
    [ɡlans]
    noun
    glance (noun)
    1. a shiny sulfide ore of lead, copper, or other metal:
      "lead glance"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from German Glanz ‘brightness, luster’; compare with Dutch glanserts ‘glance ore’.
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    verb
    1. take a brief or hurried look:
      take a quick look
      look quickly
      look briefly
      catch a glimpse of
      sneak a look
      take a gander
      take a dekko
      have a shufti
      take a butcher's
      squiz
    2. hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely:
     
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  1. "Glance" means1234:
    • To look quickly or briefly at something or someone.
    • To read something quickly.
    • A quick look.
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    glance1 /glæns/ v., glanced, glanc•ing, n. v. to look quickly or briefly:[ ~ + at] She glanced at the TV screen.
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    [intransitive] + adv./prep. to look quickly at something/somebody She glanced at her watch. He glanced around the room. I glanced up quickly to see who had come in.
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    GLANCE meaning: 1. to look somewhere for a short time: 2. to read something quickly: 3. a quick look:.
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    glance 1 [ glans, glahns ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA verb (used without object), glanced, glanc·ing. to look quickly or briefly.
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