glance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aſide, / What needſt thou wound with cunning when thy might / Is more then my ore-preſt defence can bide?”

2. fiil To look briefly at (something).

   “A horseman rode up as he spoke, and gave a letter. Claverhouse glanced it over, laughed scornfully, bade him tell his master to send his prisoners to Edinburgh, for there was no answer; […]”

3. fiil To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.

   “The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware, which was most strictly and critically clean, glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment.”

4. fiil To cause (something) to move obliquely.

   “One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion was ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the way, […]”

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

   “Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when [Kevin] Doyle sent [Stephen] Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.”

6. fiil To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).
7. fiil To communicate (something) using the eyes.

   “[T]here his Eye took diſtant Aim, / And glanc'd Reſpect to that bright Dame, […]”

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

   “Alone, it was the ſubiect of my Theame: / In company I often glanced it: / Still did I tell him, it was vilde and bad.”

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

   “I will this Night, / in ſeuerall Hands, in at his Windowes throw, / As if they came from ſeuerall Citizens, / Writings, all tending to the great opinion / That Rome holds of his Name: wherein obſcurely / Cæſars Ambition ſhall be glanced at.”

10. fiil To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.

    “A has a little gald me I confeſſe: / And as the Ieſt did glaunce awaie from me, […]”

11. fiil To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.
12. fiil Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: to rapidly touch the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.
13. fiil Of light, etc.: to gleam, to sparkle.

    “She watched the spring sunlight glancing on the water of the pond.”

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

    “In thee freſh brooks, and ſoft ſtreams glance / And all my fountains clear.”

15. fiil Often followed by at: of the eyes or a person: to look briefly.

    “She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.”

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

    “Is’t not enough thou haſt ſuborn’d theſe women, / To accuſe this worthy man? but in foule mouth, / And in the witneſſe of his proper eare, / To call him villaine; and then to glance from him, / To th’ Duke himſelfe, to taxe him with Iniuſtice?”

17. fiil Followed by by: to pass near without coming into contact.

    “Some have digged deep, yet glanced by the Royal Vein; and a Man may come unto the Pericardium, but not the Heart of Truth.”

18. fiil To move quickly; to dart, to shoot.

    “Why is my verſe ſo barren of new pride? / So far from variation or quicke change? / Why with the time do I not glance aſide / To new found methods, and to compounds ſtrange?”

19. isim A brief or cursory look.

    “Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To wound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.”

20. isim A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.

    “The ayre here is freſh and ſweet in the morning and towards Sunſet, but in the Sunnes perpendicular glances, wee found it hot and raging: […]”

21. isim A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.
22. isim 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.
23. isim An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.
24. isim An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic.

    “[W]hen Marcus Philoſophus came in, Sylenus was grauelled, and out of countenance, not knowing where to carpe at him, ſaue at the laſt, he gaue a glaunce at his patience towards his wife.”

25. isim Ellipsis of glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”).
26. isim Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.

    “copper glance    silver glance”