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Word: Glance
Speech Type: Verb
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
ɡlɑːns
take a brief or hurried look
Short Definition:take brief or hurried look
Examples:- Ginny glanced at her watch
hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely
Short Definition:hit at angle and bounce off
Examples:- the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head
Word: Glance
Speech Type: Noun
ɡlɑːns
a brief or hurried look
Short Definition:brief or hurried look
Examples:- I stole a glance at John
a flash or gleam of light
Short Definition:flash or gleam of light
Examples:- fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats
a stroke with the bat's face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly.
Short Definition:stroke with bat turned slantwise
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