glance🔊

(transitive)

To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.

To look briefly at (something).

To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.

(figuratively) To cause (something) to move obliquely.

# (ball games) To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.

# (cricket) To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).

(figuratively) To communicate (something) using the eyes.

(obsolete)

# To touch (something) lightly or obliquely; to graze.

# To make an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourably, on (a topic); also, to make (an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourable).

(intransitive)

(figuratively) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.

# (cricket) To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.

# (ichthyology) Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the (family) family: to rapidly touch the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.

Of light, etc.: to gleam, to sparkle.

Of a thing: to move in a way that catches light, and flash or glitter.

(figuratively)

# ''Often followed by'' at: of the eyes or a person: to look briefly.

# ''Often followed by'' at: of a topic: to make an incidental or passing reflection on, often unfavourably; to allude to; to hint at.

(obsolete)

# ''Followed by'' by: to pass near without coming into contact.

# To move quickly; to dart, to shoot.

(figuratively) A brief or cursory look.

(figuratively) A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.

(cricket) A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.

(ichthyology) Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the (family) family: an act of rapidly touching the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.

(obsolete)

An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.

(figuratively) An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic.

(t=any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite).

(in the names of certain minerals) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.