What's the difference between glance and graze?

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).

Graze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
  • (v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
  • (v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
  • (v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
  • (v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
  • (v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.
  • (v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.
  • (n.) The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
  • (n.) A light touch; a slight scratch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
  • (2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
  • (3) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
  • (4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
  • (5) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
  • (6) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
  • (7) Serum cholesterol concentrations were lower in steers grazing on G1-307 than in steers grazing on G1-306 or cultivars.
  • (8) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
  • (9) High titres of antibodies to rinderpest virus were demonstrated in sera collected from sheep and goats that were grazing together with the affected cattle herds; there was, however, no evidence of clinical disease in these small ruminants and wildlife species in the affected area.
  • (10) However, both groups of bulls exhibited similar diurnal grazing patterns with two major daily grazing periods; the first (0400 to 1300) peaked early in the morning (0600) and the second (1700 to 2200) occurred in late afternoon and evening.
  • (11) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
  • (12) Currently, the lucrative trade in logging, cattle grazing and palm oil, means tropical forests are worth substantially more dead than alive to developing countries.
  • (13) Eighty-five American wigeon (Anas americana) died after grazing on one treated fairway on the day of application following irrigation.
  • (14) It appeared that H. contortus could not have more than two generations in ewes or lambs in a single grazing season.
  • (15) The changes in nematode cholinesterase (ChE) activities were examined in relation to the development of resistance in (1) a flock of young grazing sheep, (2) grazing and penned sheep treated with dexamethasone and (3) penned sheep receiving a single mixed infection.
  • (16) Previously infected weaners underwent spontaneous cure within 6 weeks to 6 months of starting to graze safe pastures, Teladorsagia being reduced by 77 to 98%, Nematodirus by 9 to 94% and Trichostrongylus by 34 to 40%.
  • (17) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
  • (18) One of the major differences between the two systems is that PMC cows have access to grazing along the rivers.
  • (19) Three groups of five, three-and-a-half to four-month-old lambs were put to graze on three plots contaminated by Trichostrongylus colubriformis.
  • (20) Grazing sheep in some situations develop visible cysts earlier, around one year of age, hence it is considered that the infections of experimental sheep in SPF conditions may not reflect all the circumstances leading to natural infection.