Glance vs False - What's the difference?
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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)
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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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb glance
is to look briefly (at something).As a noun glance
is a brief or cursory look.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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 glancefalse
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Adjective
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