Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) glaunce
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Ellipsis of glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”).
- (also, figuratively) A brief or cursory look.
- (obsolete, except, in the names of certain minerals) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
- (also, figuratively) A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.
- (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.
- (ichthyology) 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.
- An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.
- (figuratively) An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic.
Verbi
- To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.
- To look briefly at (something).
- To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.
- (also, figuratively) To cause (something) to move obliquely.
- (ball games) To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.
- (cricket) To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).
- (figuratively) To communicate (something) using the eyes.
- To touch (something) lightly or obliquely; to graze.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourably, on (a topic); also, to make (an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourable).
- (also, figuratively) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- (cricket) To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.
- (ichthyology) Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: to rapidly touch the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.
- Of light, etc.: to gleam, to sparkle.
- Of a thing: to move in a way that catches light, and flash or glitter.
- Often followed by at: of the eyes or a person: to look briefly.
- Often followed by at: of a topic: to make an incidental or passing reflection on, often unfavourably; to allude to; to hint at.
- Followed by by: to pass near without coming into contact.
- To move quickly; to dart, to shoot.
Esimerkit
- She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
- The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
- The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
- From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.
- And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, / His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.
- Your arrow hath glanced.
- On me the curse aslope / Glanced on the ground.
- Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when Doyle sent Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.
- Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.
- He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.
- Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
- Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
- But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
- swift as the lightning glance
- How fleet is a glance of the mind.
- copper glance
- He only glanced at her, and walked on.
- Her glance signified more than he knew.
- She took now but a glance at the picture,. (The wings of the dove - Henry James)
- at a glance
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | glanced | Partisiipin perfekti | yglaunst |
| Partisiipin perfekti | glanc'd (vanhentunut) | Partisiipin perfekti | glanc't (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | glanced | Imperfekti | glanc'd (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | glanc't (vanhentunut) | Partisiipin preesens | glancing |
| Monikko | glances | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | glances |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | glanceth (vanhahtava) |