glance

• n. 一瞥；滑る；閃く
• vi. 一瞥する、急ぐ; 反省する; 一瞥する、垣間見る
• vt.ちらっと見る；ちらっと見る；通り過ぎる
• n.（グランス）人名；（英）Glance

ラテン語のglacies（氷）が語源で、語源的にはcold（冷たい）と同じだが、鼻音のnが挿入されている。

glance

glance: [15] ‘Touch or deflect lightly’, as in ‘glance off something’ and a ‘glancing blow’, is the primary meaning of glance; ‘look briefly’ did not develop until the 16th century. The word may have originated as an alteration of the Middle English verb glacen ‘glide, slide’ (probably under the influence of Middle English glenten, the ancestor of modern English glint). Glacen was borrowed from Old French glacier ‘slide’, a derivative of glace ‘ice’ (from which English also gets glacier).
=> glacier

glance (n.)

c. 1500, "a sudden movement producing a flash," from glance (v.). Meaning "brief or hurried look" is from 1590s.

glance (v.)

mid-15c., of weapons, "strike obliquely without giving full impact," a nasalized form of glacen "to graze, strike a glancing blow" (c. 1300), from Old French glacier "to slip, make slippery" (compare Old French glaciere "part of a knight's armor meant to deflect blows"), from glace "ice" (see glacial). Sense of "look quickly" (first recorded 1580s) probably was by influence of Middle English glenten "look askance" (see glint (v.)), which also could account for the -n-. Related: Glanced; glancing.

1. Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu,then flapped it shut.

バークは急いでメニューをちらっと見て、パチリと閉じた。

2.He stole a glance at the clock behind her.

彼は彼女の背後にある時計をこっそり見た。

3.In those crowded streets her attire did not rate a second glance .

混雑した街での彼女の服装には注意が払われていない。

4.She cast a wry glance in her grandmother 's direction.

彼女はおばあさんに仕方なくにらみつけた。

5.She took her eyes off the road to glance at me.

彼女は道路から目をそらして、私をちらっと見た。