Dictionary Entry
glance
glance is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sudden flash of light or splendor. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A sudden flash of light or splendor.
- 2noun
A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
- 3noun
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
- 4noun
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
- 5intransitive verb
To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
- 6intransitive verb
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
- 7intransitive verb
To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
- 8intransitive verb
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
- 9intransitive verb
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- 10transitive verb
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
- 11transitive verb
To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
- 12noun
a quick look
Synonyms
- 13verb
hit at an angle
- 14verb
throw a glance at; take a brief look at
"She only glanced at the paper"
"I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
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