different between allude vs glance

English

Etymology

From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?d/

Verb

allude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)

1. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

     These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

   • 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

     It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Derived terms

• allusive
• allusion

Related terms

• delude
• elude
• illude

Translations

References

• allude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “allude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

See also

• hark back
• hearken back

Anagrams

• aludel

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

allude

1. third-person singular present indicative of alludere

Anagrams

• duella

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al?lu?.de/, [äl??l?u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/, [?l?lu?d??]

Verb

all?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of all?d?

English

Alternative forms

• glaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From a conflation of Middle English glacen (“to graze, strike a glancing blow”) and Middle English glenten (“to look askance”). Middle English glacen came from Old French glacier (“to slip, make slippery”), which was a derivative of glace (“ice”). Middle English glenten was derived from Old Norse *glenta (“to shine; look”), which ultimately comes from Proto-Germanic *glintan? (“to shine; look”). Middle English glenten is also the source of glint.

The form of the modern word takes largely after its Latinate parent, save for the medial -n-. On the other hand, the most common sense in modern usage, "to look briefly (at something)", comes from its Germanic parent. The sense "to sparkle" does as well. Most other senses derive from Middle English glacen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?læns/
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Verb

glance (third-person singular simple present glances, present participle glancing, simple past and past participle glanced)

1. (intransitive) To look briefly (at something).

   She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
2. (intransitive) To graze at a surface.
3. To sparkle.

   The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.

   • From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.

4. (intransitive) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
5. (intransitive) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
   • 1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal

     I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"

6. (soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
   • c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen

     He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.

8. (ichthyology) A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.

Synonyms

• (To see something briefly): see

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

glance (countable and uncountable, plural glances)

1. A brief or cursory look.
2. A deflection.
3. (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
4. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
5. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
   • c. 1782, William Cowper, The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk

     How fleet is a glance of the mind.

6. (mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.

7. (mineralogy) Glance coal.

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