What does glancing over mean?
What does glancing over mean?
examine hastily
Definitions of glance over. verb. examine hastily. synonyms: rake, run down, scan, skim. type of: examine, see.
What is another word for glance over?
What is another word for glance over?
scan | skim |
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glance through | look over |
peruse | flick through |
flip through | leaf through |
look through | riffle through |
What do you mean by glancing?
1a : to take a quick look at something glanced at his watch. b of the eyes : to move swiftly from one thing to another. 2 : to strike a surface obliquely so as to go off at an angle The bullet glanced off the wall.
How do you use glance in a sentence?
Glance sentence example
- One glance at the picture and his neck turned red.
- You see at a glance that she is blind.
- He chanced a glance at her and grimaced.
- She felt sorry for her and held out her hand with a glance of gentle inquiry.
- He gave only a glance up the path to the mine before returning to his Jeep.
What does looked over mean?
to inspect or examine
transitive verb. : to inspect or examine especially in a cursory way.
What is the synonym of glancing?
take a quick look, look quickly, look briefly, peek, peep. glimpse, catch a glimpse of.
What is the difference between glimpse and glance?
As a verb, to glimpse is to see something momentarily: I glimpsed the knife before she slipped it into her bag. Glance comes from a word that meant “to move quickly.” As a noun, glance is a brief look that passes from one person to another or to a thing.
What’s another word for looked over?
What is another word for look over?
inspect | examine |
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scan | check |
peruse | skim |
flick through | flip through |
give the once-over | scrutinizeUS |