What's the difference between gaze and glance?

Gaze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
  • (v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .
  • (n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
  • (n.) The object gazed on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
  • (2) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
  • (3) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.
  • (4) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
  • (5) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
  • (6) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
  • (7) It is suggested that a theory similar to the phenomenological theory which accounts for the fly's gaze may account for the human eye's movement during an observation of Müller-Lyer figures.
  • (8) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
  • (9) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
  • (10) The authors review the neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic features relevant to supranuclear gaze mechanisms.
  • (11) All patients had conjugate gaze deviation to the right.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) This task thus requires monkeys to direct their gaze to the location of a remembered visual cue, controls the retinal coordinates of the visual cues, controls the monkey's oculomotor behavior during the delay period, and also allows precise measurement of the timing and direction of the relevant behavioral responses.
  • (14) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
  • (15) Standardized surface swab, gaze pad contact, Rodac plates, and burn wound biopsy cultures were obtained twice per week.
  • (16) When head-free and head-fixed pursuit were compared, striking similarities were seen for both slow phase gaze velocity gain and phase, indicating that gaze control during smooth pursuit is largely independent of the degree of associated head movement.
  • (17) A 23-year-old man sustained severe macular damage by sun gazing during a hallucinogenic drug-induced state.
  • (18) Extracellular recordings from single neurons of the prestriate area V3A were carried out in awake, behaving monkeys, to test the influence of the direction of gaze on cellular activity.
  • (19) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
  • (20) The main acute symptoms included disorders of consciousness, hypersomnia and sometimes vertical gaze paresis.

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).