What's the difference between gawk and glance?

Gawk


Definition:

  • (n.) A cuckoo.
  • (n.) A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.
  • (v. i.) To act like a gawky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CCB-LI was produced in large amounts in SCLC cell lines as compared to PST- and GAWK-LIs.
  • (2) This peptide, denoted GAWK, could originate from chromogranin B following specific cleavage at the basic amino acids flanking both termini of GAWK.
  • (3) The complete sequence of this 74 amino acid polypeptide, called GAWK, has been determined.
  • (4) A quiet word, a hushed farewell and a bowing out – without the Commonwealth gawking.
  • (5) Production of chromogranin (Cg)A and B derived peptides [pancreastatin (PST), GAWK, CCB] was studied using human lung carcinoma derived cell lines.
  • (6) GAWK (chromogranin-B 420-493) is a 74 amino acid peptide recently isolated from human pituitaries.
  • (7) Endocrine cells containing GAWK-like immunoreactivity were found also to be immunoreactive for chromogranin B.
  • (8) In a manner reminiscent of the relationship between pancreastatin and chromogranin A, it is proposed that both GAWK and CCB are produced from chromogranin B after specific processing at basic amino acids.
  • (9) Using two different antibodies (directed against GAWK [1-17] and [20-38] fragments) GAWK-LI was measured in tumors from 194 patients and in the plasma of 434 patients by RIA.
  • (10) PST, GAWK and CCB-LIs, secreted by these cell lines, consisted of several peaks, and these peaks were different among cell lines.
  • (11) We must “stop China’s cyber attacks, stop their territorial expansion into international waters,” stop Russia from “[encountering] mush” and “pushing” with bayonets, make sure Israel isn’t having a sad, cripple Iran with sanctions and ignore everything about climate change because “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.” The great thing about ignoring science and practicality while threatening to go to war against more than 1.5bn people around the globe is that, if there are any enemy survivors after the bombing stops, they can sail to the port city of Orlando and gawk enviously at all the free people queuing up for their mandatory drug tests atop a natural gas pipeline But don’t sell Walker short on his zero foreign policy experience.
  • (12) Plasma concentrations of GAWK-LI were found to be elevated in patients with endocrine tumor, but more so in those with pancreatic tumors than with pheochromocytomas.
  • (13) GAWK is a recently discovered peptide isolated from extracts of human pituitary gland and subsequently shown to be identical to sequence 420-493 of human chromogranin B.
  • (14) Our results show that 7B2 and the two fragments of secretogranin 1 (GAWK and CCB) are the best biochemical markers of neuro-endocrine differentiation in human lung tumours.
  • (15) High concentrations of GAWK-LI were also found in other types of endocrine tumors including carcinoid, medullary carcinoma of thyroid, pancreatic, and ACTH-producing lung tumors.
  • (16) So the powerful, by definition, deserve to be gawked at.
  • (17) A previously reported CgB-derived pituitary peptide, GAWK, was further processed at a conserved internal dibasic site to yield fragment 6, indicating alternative processing in different tissues.
  • (18) "You'd want to be one heck of a man to do it though, as there is huge windows at the front of the shop so passer-bys can gawk in and shame the menly-men knitting 'til their hearts content."
  • (19) Anyone old enough to have gawked at Diana’s progress, from uneducated 19-year-old target of a secretive thirtysomething, into a wildly competitive, ungovernable celebrity, will surely agree that her achievements merit something more personal, especially considering the steadily declining quality of royal entertainment.
  • (20) He took up a position at the front of the crowd, which gawked at him.

Glance


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.
  • (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
  • (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
  • (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
  • (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
  • (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
  • (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
  • (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
  • (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
  • (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
  • (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
  • (2) A mere glance at the time courses shows what reaction schemes are inapplicable.
  • (3) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (4) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
  • (5) At first glance it seemed to be Carlos Alberto Parreira, a man who was sacked by Saudi Arabia after losing his first two matches at France 1998.
  • (6) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
  • (7) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (8) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
  • (9) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
  • (10) Andy and his dad – who now looks like a Stieg Larsson character with a secret underground chamber - share a knowing glance and everyone is happy.
  • (11) Moments earlier Olsson had given the visitors the lead with a glancing header from Brunt’s corner to the near-post.
  • (12) Climate injustice is not at first glance a legal problem any more than climate change itself is: it is economic, political, scientific.
  • (13) Photograph: Life at a Glance He had been a relatively successful culture secretary in the first Blair government, so why was he sacked with no offer of another government job immediately after Labour won a second term in 2001?
  • (14) I cannot risk a whole game, I am a long-term coach.” Puzzled glances around the room alerted the manager to the possibility of a misunderstanding.
  • (15) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
  • (16) At first glance this may look simply like the natural order being imposed, a Premier League club easing out a side from two tiers below even if they were forced to endure the irritation of extra-time in the process.
  • (17) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
  • (18) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?
  • (19) At first glance the underlying profit before tax of £3.8bn, up 12.3%, looks good but that includes property disposal profits of £427m (which were ahead of the new annual target of £250m-£350m of property profits).
  • (20) • Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).