Glanced vs Peered - What's the difference?
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(glance)
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.
(peer)
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
to come in sight; to appear.
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
* Dryden
* Isaac Taylor
# Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
* Milton
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
* Spenser
to make equal in rank.
(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
As verbs the difference between glanced and peered
is that glanced is (glance) while peered is (peer).glanced
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*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 glancepeered
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*peer
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(wikipedia peer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
- as if through a dungeon grate he peered
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
- He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
- So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
- See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In song he never had his peer .
- Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
- a peer of the realm
- a noble peer of mickle trust and power
- He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Verb
(en verb)- (Heylin)