(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).
Glimmer
Definition:
(v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
(n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
(n.) Mica. See Mica.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colin Ellis, European economist at Daiwa Securities SMBC, said: "Today's PMI data will only fan the glimmers of hope that have started to appear in recent weeks.
(2) Any charity needs to be clear how it will do its work – any new one needs to be clear how to get from the glimmer in somebody's eye to doing great work.
(3) But by the way, the glimmer of positive news for our group was we won the 29 and younger.” Gabbard, 34, an Iraq war veteran and now representative for Hawaii, became the fourth member of Congress to endorse Sanders.
(4) Gianni Infantino’s victory offers Fifa a glimmer of hope amid the gloom Read more David Gill, the FA director who also sits on the executive committee at both Uefa and Fifa, said Infantino’s election was “a good day for football”, while the American Fifa executive committee member Sunil Gulati also hailed it as “a good day for the sport”.
(5) A mid the Syrian chaos of carnage, starvation and evacuation, there is a tiny glimmer of hope.
(6) The Met Office was able to offer a faint glimmer of hope that an end to the protracted cold snap could be in sight.
(7) One glimmer of hope remains on the horizon, with successful full-scale trials of tidal and wave power technology
(8) La Grange was at pains to make it clear that as a child she showed not a glimmer of the incipient political sensibility that some white South Africans I have met claim to have had.
(9) Throughout each area there are randomly placed treasure chests stuffed with loot, either cash in the form of Glimmers which can be used to buy items and upgrades, or natural resources known as Engrams.
(10) Forecasters have learned to dampen expectations since the infamous barbecue summer of 2009, but forecasters have still been trying to give a glimmer of good cheer.
(11) Instead he wanted to focus less on new measures than on the light now clearly glimmering at the end of the tunnel.
(12) To conquer his fear of women, Kris is introduced to a room full of glimmering bikini models and instructed to give them oil massages while keeping up scintillating conversation.
(13) ' " Environmentalists see glimmers of hope in places such as Jiuquan that this might one day change.
(14) Other late polls and some early voting figures still suggest glimmers of hope for Democrats, particularly in North Carolina and New Hampshire, where the party’s candidates remain marginally ahead.
(15) Obama did not mention the furore surrounding Ahmed’s arrest when he made brief remarks on the White House lawn on Monday night, but he did appeal to schools and parents to nurture any “glimmers of curiosity” shown by children in science, for the good not only of their future but of society.
(16) The lovey-dovey duo – glimmers of spontaneous affection, particularly those initiated by Jay Z, sent the crowd into a frenzy – began with Bonnie & Clyde, with Beyonce seductively walking into view to reveal a fishnet leotard and matching ski mask.
(17) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(18) Examining the development of what is called allied health, one can see a picture of how the American health care system has evolved and, perhaps, a glimmer of its future.
(19) When power was just a glimmer on the horizon, Conservative MPs used to delight in attacking Labour's recruitment of political sympathisers as government special advisers and spin doctors – in spite of the fact that many of the new Tory leadership, David Cameron and George Osborne among them, had themselves cut their teeth in such jobs.
(20) The Met Office would not be drawn on anything too specific beyond 11 August, leaving a glimmer of hope that a late burst of sunny days could be in store.