Usually means: Brief look, often quick, fleeting.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. glance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glance, glance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glance, glance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glance, glance: Wordnik
  7. glance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glance: Wiktionary
  9. glance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glance, glance: Dictionary.com
  13. glance (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Glance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glance: Rhymezone
  19. glance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. glance: Free Dictionary
  22. glance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Glance, glance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. glance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. glance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. glance: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.
verb:  To look briefly at (something).
verb:  To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.
verb:  (also figuratively) To cause (something) to move obliquely.
verb:  (ball games) To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.
verb:  (cricket) To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).
verb:  (figuratively) To communicate (something) using the eyes.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To touch (something) lightly or obliquely; to graze.
verb:  To make an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourably, on (a topic); also, to make (an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourable).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (also figuratively) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
verb:  (cricket) To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.
verb:  (ichthyology) Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: to rapidly touch the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.
verb:  Of light, etc.: to gleam, to sparkle.
verb:  Of a thing: to move in a way that catches light, and flash or glitter.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  Often followed by at: of the eyes or a person: to look briefly.
verb:  Often followed by at: of a topic: to make an incidental or passing reflection on, often unfavourably; to allude to; to hint at.
verb:  Followed by by: to pass near without coming into contact.
verb:  To move quickly; to dart, to shoot.
noun:  (also figuratively) A brief or cursory look.
noun:  (also figuratively) A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.
noun:  (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.
noun:  (ichthyology) 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.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.
noun:  (figuratively) An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic.
noun:  (obsolete except in the names of certain minerals) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
noun:  Short for glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”). [(mineralogy) Any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite.]

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