glance
verb/ɡlɑːns/
/ɡlæns/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they glance | /ɡlɑːns/ /ɡlæns/ |
| he / she / it glances | /ˈɡlɑːnsɪz/ /ˈɡlænsɪz/ |
| past simple glanced | /ɡlɑːnst/ /ɡlænst/ |
| past participle glanced | /ɡlɑːnst/ /ɡlænst/ |
| -ing form glancing | /ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋ/ /ˈɡlænsɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to look quickly at something/somebody
- She glanced at her watch.
- He glanced around the room.
- I glanced up quickly to see who had come in.
Extra Examples- At that moment she happened to glance up.
- He glanced covertly at his watch.
- He glanced curiously around him.
- He glanced towards the kitchen.
- He turned to glance in our direction.
- Norton glanced sharply at him.
- She barely glanced at him.
- She glanced across to where the others were standing chatting.
- She glanced nervously over her shoulder.
- glancing curiously about him
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- briefly
- quickly
- sharply
- …
- pause to
- turn to
- happen to
- …
- about
- around
- round
- …
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- [intransitive] glance at/down/over/through something to read something quickly and not carefully or completely synonym scan
- I only had time to glance at my emails.
- He glanced briefly down the list of names.
- She glanced through the report.
Extra Examples- She glanced through the report on the way to the meeting.
- She glanced briefly at his lapel badge.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- briefly
- quickly
- sharply
- …
- pause to
- turn to
- happen to
- …
- about
- around
- round
- …
Word Originlate 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.
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