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Glancing vs Lancing - What's the difference?

glancing | lancing |

As verbs the difference between glancing and lancing

is that glancing is present participle of lang=en while lancing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between glancing and lancing

is that glancing is a sideways look; a glance while lancing is the act by which something is lanced.

As an adjective glancing

is making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

glancing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
    • His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sideways look; a glance.
  • * 1856 , David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?
    • No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.

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    lancing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is lanced.
  • * 2011 , Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology (page 46)
    • Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.