Glance vs Brush - What's the difference?
glance | brush | Synonyms |
To look briefly (at something).
* Shakespeare
To graze a surface.
To sparkle.
* Tennyson
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
* Macaulay
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at .
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
A brief or cursory look.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
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A deflection.
(label) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
A sudden flash of light or splendour.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)
(label) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
(label) Glance coal.
An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
The act of brushing something.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:[As leaves] have with one winter's brush / Fell from their boughs.
(lb) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees ().
*1906 , Jack London, :
*:We broke away]] toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they [[catch up, caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
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*2013 , Russell Brand,
*:The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
(lb) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
(lb) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
*Cornhill Magazine
*:Let us enjoy a brush across the country.
(lb) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
(lb) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
*2007 , Lee Lanier, Maya Professional Tips and Techniques , p.12:
*:Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush , it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file.
(lb) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
(North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in wreathmaking.
To clean with a brush.
To untangle or arrange with a brush.
To apply with a brush.
To remove with a sweeping motion.
* Shakespeare
To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
* Fairfax
* Milton
* 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.
Glance is a synonym of brush.
As verbs the difference between glance and brush
is that glance is to look briefly (at something) while brush is to clean with a brush.As nouns the difference between glance and brush
is that glance is a brief or cursory look while brush is an implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.glance
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Alternative forms
* glaunce (obsolete)Verb
(glanc)- 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.
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- Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.
- He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.
Synonyms
* (To look briefly) glimpseDerived terms
* glance off * glance over * glance away * glanceableNoun
(en noun)- 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 .
- swift as the lightning glance
- How fleet is a glance of the mind.
Derived terms
* at a glance * at first glance * coal glance * cobalt glance * copper glance * steal a glance * wood glancebrush
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Noun
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Verb
- Brush your teeth.
- Brush your hair.
- Brush the paint onto the walls.
- Brush the flour off your clothes.
- As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen.
- Her scarf brushed his skin.
- Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.
- Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings.
- Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.
