请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 glancing
释义

glancingn.

/ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋ//ˈɡlansɪŋ/
Etymology: < glance v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of glance v.1, in various senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] > an oblique movement > glancing off
glancinga1513
slanting1980
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
leaming1387
shimmeringc1405
gleamingc1440
glimmeringc1440
skimmeringc1440
glimpsing1563
gloringa1652
flickering1816
glancing1832
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxv. f. cxlvii This kynge Wyllyam..by glaunsynge of an Arowe..was wounded to ye deth.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxxiii. 617 Sir Wylliam Fermyntone excused hymselfe and sayde..howe he coulde nat amende it [his stroke], bycause of glaunsynge of his fote.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 14 By this upraiding to me the Bordello's, as by other suspicious glancings in his book he would seem privily to point me out..as one whose custome of life were not honest.
1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 42 All which speak the Openings, and Glancings [printed Glaneings] out of the Kingdom of Christ.
1832 H. Martineau Ireland v. 82 She saw a glancing and gleaming on the extreme point of the track..It was the glittering of the arms of a strong party of soldiers.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. v. 304 The glancing of their weapons, and the shrill cry of the trumpet, all filled the spectators with astonishment.

Compounds

glancing-glass n. Scottish ‘a glass used by children for reflecting the rays of the sun on any object’ (Jamieson). In quots. figurative.
ΚΠ
1728 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden (ed. 3) 95 A glazing Glancing-glass, who loves to hear himself speak, and the World to notice him.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 320 Gazing, glancing-glasses they are, fit only to fling the glaiks in folks een.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

glancingadj.

Etymology: < glance v.1 + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈglancing.
a. That glances (in various senses of the verb).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective]
glancing1596
allusive1607
indicative1624
suggestive1631
insinuative1649
suspicious1663
hinting1820
subindicative1822
subtextual1950
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
levininga1340
leaming1387
gloringa1400
gleamingc1400
glimpsing1551
shimmering1558
glooming1579
brandishing1581
gleamy1593
glancing1596
glimmering1600
flickering1608
flashing1616
blinking1681
glimmerous1793
skimmeringa1800
aglimmer1828
agleam1854
aglint1871
aglance1880
glinting1883
shimmery1883
glimmery1906
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vi. sig. R6 The glauncing sparkles through her beuer glared, And from her eies did flash out fiery light. View more context for this quotation
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xvii. xiv, in Wks. 495 He Insinuated, by this Glancing way, some Remote Pretension that he might have to the Crown.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 463 This [scar] on Parnassus combating the boar, With glancing rage the tusky savage tore.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xvii. 49 The stream—with its shadows and its glancing lights.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlviii. 382 She had a glancing forethought of what she would do in that case.
b. a glancing view, a cursory look or survey.
ΚΠ
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xii This glancing View of these two great Inventions.
1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iii. 102 To take a short glancing view of the imperfections of our nature.

Compounds

glancing-wise adv.
ΚΠ
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. H iiij Syr Thomas Darcy vpon hys approch to the enemies, was strooken glauncing wyse on the ryght syde, with a bullet.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 24 He had never opened it to them but in darcke speaches, and glawnsingwise, and so muche as sufficed to put them in some hope.

Derivatives

ˈglancingly adv. in a glancing fashion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb] > without thoroughness or exactness
lightlyOE
overly1440
superficially1526
slovenly1548
glancingly1556
overrunningly1561
cursorily1565
perfunctorily1581
sloven-like1589
cursoriwise1598
perfunctoriously1609
slubberingly1622
cursitorily1628
skimmingly1847
unscrutinizingly1891
sloppily1898
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxv. 47 Tharbiters glaunsingly, Ere the flies ought saide..Had betweene them selues these woords.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 578/2 Others glansinglie passe by it, as a matter of no great observation.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxix. 253 These six..I distinctly remember, but had cursorily and glancingly cast mine Eye on all twelve.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 502 My feet shall bear me glancingly along to the merry music of streams.
1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 22 119 There are plenty of witty men..whose faculties play glancingly upon the surface of things.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
<
n.a1513adj.1548
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/10 18:11:27