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glance

The English word “glance” has 26 meanings listed here.

  1. To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.
  2. To look briefly at (something).
  3. To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.
  4. To cause (something) to move obliquely.
  5. To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.
  6. To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).
  7. To communicate (something) using the eyes.
  8. To touch (something) lightly or obliquely; to graze.
  9. To make an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourably, on (a topic); also, to make (an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourable).
  10. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
  11. To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.
  12. Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: to rapidly touch the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.
  13. Of light, etc.: to gleam, to sparkle.
  14. Of a thing: to move in a way that catches light, and flash or glitter.
  15. Often followed by at: of the eyes or a person: to look briefly.
  16. Often followed by at: of a topic: to make an incidental or passing reflection on, often unfavourably; to allude to; to hint at.
  17. Followed by by: to pass near without coming into contact.
  18. To move quickly; to dart, to shoot.
  19. A brief or cursory look.
  20. A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.
  21. A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.
  22. Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: an act of rapidly touching the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.
  23. An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.
  24. An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic.
  25. Ellipsis of glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”).
  26. Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
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