glancing
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːnsɪŋ
Verb[edit]
glancing
- present participle and gerund of glance
Adjective[edit]
glancing (comparative more glancing, superlative most glancing)
- Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
- His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 324–325:
- She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery. It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.
Translations[edit]
Noun[edit]
glancing (plural glancings)
- 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.