to glance at
31glance, glimpse — A glance is a quick look; to glance is to direct one s gaze briefly: Take a glance at the morning paper. Read the book carefully; don t just glance at it. A glimpse is a brief or momentary sight of something; to glimpse is to obtain a brief view… …
32glance — Synonyms and related words: Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, attouchement, avert, balefire, be bright, beacon, beacon fire, beam, bear off, beat the drum, bedazzle, bell, bell buoy, blaze, blaze of light, blind, blink, blinker …
33glance*/ — [glɑːns] verb [I] I 1) to look somewhere quickly and then look away ‘I must go, Claudia said, glancing at her watch.[/ex] Robin glanced around the room.[/ex] 2) to read something quickly and not very carefully I hadn t even glanced at the… …
34Glance — Harvey Glance (* 28. März 1957 in Phenix City, Alabama) ist ein US amerikanischer Leichtathlet, der in den späten 1970er und in den 1980er Jahren über 100 m erfolgreich war. Karriere Harvey Glance gewann fünf Goldmedaillen als Mitglied der 4x100m …
35glance — 01. When I [glanced] at the paper this morning, I saw a picture of someone I used to go to school with. 02. Can you take a quick [glance] at my essay, and see if it looks okay to you? 03. The child [glanced] at his mother to see if she was… …
36glance — {{11}}glance (n.) c.1500, sudden movement producing a flash, from GLANCE (Cf. glance) (v.). Meaning brief or hurried look is from 1590s. {{12}}glance (v.) mid 15c., of weapons, from glacen to graze, strike a glancing blow (c.1300), from O.Fr.… …
37GLANCE (AIMLESS GLANCE OF COWBOY HERO) — This term originates with Umberto Echo and refers to the stylistic convention of the hero’s laconic facial expressions in the face of danger. Clint Eastwood in particular, in the Sergio Leone Westerns, casts about that expressionless look in… …
38glance off — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms glance off : present tense I/you/we/they glance off he/she/it glances off present participle glancing off past tense glanced off past participle glanced off glance off something to hit something lightly and… …
39glance at — Synonyms and related words: adumbrate, allude to, cast a glance, dip into, drop a hint, examine cursorily, flip, give a hint, give the cue, give the once over, glance, glimpse, glint, hint, hint at, imply, indicate, insinuate, intimate, page… …
40glance — [15] ‘Touch or deflect lightly’, as in ‘glance off something’ and a ‘glancing blow’, is the primary meaning of glance; ‘look briefly’ did not develop until the 16th century. The word may have originated as an alteration of the Middle English verb …
