glanceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English glacen (“to graze, strike a glancing blow”), from Old French glacier (“to slip, make slippery”). Sense of "look quickly" (first recorded 1580s) probably was influenced in form and meaning by Middle English glenten (“to look askance”). See glint.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlæns/
• 韻: -ɑːns, -æns

動詞

glance (三人称単数 現在形 glances, 現在分詞 glancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 glanced)

1. (intransitive) To look briefly (at something).

   She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.

   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

2. (intransitive) To graze a surface.
3. To sparkle.

   The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.

   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.

4. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
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5. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v]:

     Your arrow hath glanced.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     On me the curse aslope / Glanced on the ground.

   • 1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal

     I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"

6. (soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
   • 2011 January 18, “Wolverhampton 5 - 0 Doncaster”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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.

7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.

   • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.

同意語

• (To look briefly): glimpse

派生語

名詞

glance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 glances)

1. A brief or cursory look.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     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.

   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     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.

2. A deflection.
3. (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
4. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 76:

     Swift as the lightning glance

5. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
   • (Can we date this quote by William Cowper かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     How fleet is a glance of the mind.

6. (mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.

   copper glance

   silver glance

7. (mineralogy) Glance coal.

派生語