{
    "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."
}