The difference between Glance and Glimpse
When used as nouns, glance means a brief or cursory look, whereas glimpse means a brief look, glance, or peek.
When used as verbs, glance means to look briefly (at something), whereas glimpse means to see or view briefly or incompletely.
check bellow for the other definitions of Glance and Glimpse
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Glance as a verb (intransitive):
To look briefly (at something).
Examples:
"She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror."
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Glance as a verb (intransitive):
To graze a surface.
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Glance as a verb:
To sparkle.
Examples:
"The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond."
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Glance as a verb:
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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Glance as a verb:
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
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Glance as a verb (soccer):
To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
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Glance as a verb:
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
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Glance as a noun:
A brief or cursory look.
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Glance as a noun:
A deflection.
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Glance as a noun (cricket):
A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
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Glance as a noun:
A sudden flash of light or splendour.
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Glance as a noun:
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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Glance as a noun (mineralogy):
Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
Examples:
"copper glance'"
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Glance as a noun (mineral):
Glance coal.
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Glimpse as a noun:
A brief look, glance, or peek.
Examples:
"I only got a glimpse of the car, so I can tell you the colour but not the registration number."
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Glimpse as a noun:
A sudden flash.
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Glimpse as a noun:
A faint idea; an inkling.
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Glimpse as a verb (transitive):
To see or view briefly or incompletely.
Examples:
"I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem."
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Glimpse as a verb (intransitive):
To appear by glimpses.
Examples:
"rfquotek Drayton"