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{
"term": "glance",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "glance",
"heSheIt": "glances"
},
"pastSimple": "glanced",
"pastParticiple": "glanced",
"ingForm": "glancing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to look quickly at something/somebody",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She glanced at her watch."
},
{
"text": "He glanced around the room."
},
{
"text": "I glanced up quickly to see who had come in."
},
{
"text": "At that moment she happened to glance up."
},
{
"text": "He glanced covertly at his watch."
},
{
"text": "He glanced curiously around him."
},
{
"text": "He glanced towards the kitchen."
},
{
"text": "He turned to glance in our direction."
},
{
"text": "Norton glanced sharply at him."
},
{
"text": "She barely glanced at him."
},
{
"text": "She glanced across to where the others were standing chatting."
},
{
"text": "She glanced nervously over her shoulder."
},
{
"text": "glancing curiously about him"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briefly", "quickly", "sharply"],
"verb + glance": ["pause to", "turn to", "happen to"],
"preposition": ["about", "around", "round"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to read something quickly and not carefully or completely",
"sensetop": "glance at/down/over/through something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I only had time to glance at my emails."
},
{
"text": "He glanced briefly down the list of names."
},
{
"text": "She glanced through the report."
},
{
"text": "She glanced through the report on the way to the meeting."
},
{
"text": "She glanced briefly at his lapel badge."
}
],
"synonyms": "scan",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briefly", "quickly", "sharply"],
"verb + glance": ["pause to", "turn to", "happen to"],
"preposition": ["about", "around", "round"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡlɑːns/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glance__gb_5.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɡlɑːnsɪz/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glances__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡlɑːnst/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glanced__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋ/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glancing__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡlæns/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glance__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɡlænsɪz/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glances__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡlænst/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glanced__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɡlænsɪŋ/",
"audio": "gl/glance/glancing__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘rebound obliquely’): probably a nasalized form of obsolete glace in the same sense, from Old French glacier ‘to slip’, from glace ‘ice’, based on Latin glacies."
}