different between glance vs eye

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.

Derived terms

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?, IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: ay, aye, I

Etymology 1

From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, y?e, ey?e, from Old English ?age (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ok?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”).

See also Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic ??? (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ???????? (ophthalmós, “eye”), Armenian ??? (akn), Avestan ????????????? (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit ????? (ák?i). Related to ogle.

The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ?agan, nominative and accusative plural of Old English ?age (“eye”).

Noun

eye (plural eyes or (obsolete or dialectal) eyen)

1. An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eye

   Hyponym: ocellus

2. The visual sense.

3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.

4. Attention, notice.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.

   Synonym: perceptiveness
6. A meaningful stare or look.

7. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
10. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.

    Synonym: eyelet

11. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
12. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
13. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
14. A reproductive bud in a potato.
15. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
16. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.
17. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
18. Tinge; shade of colour.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours

      Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

19. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
20. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
21. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
22. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
23. (usually in the plural) View or opinion.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ai

Translations

See eye/translations § Noun.

See also

• tapetum lucidum

References

• Eye (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• eye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)

1. (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).

   After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.

   They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.

   • 1859, Fraser's Magazine (volume 60, page 671)

     Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.

   Synonym: gaze (poetic)

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.

Derived terms

• eye up
• ineye

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye.

Noun

eye (plural eyes)

1. A brood.

   an eye of pheasants

Anagrams

• Yee, yee

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English e?e, from Proto-West Germanic *agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of awe.

Alternative forms

• eie, e?e, e??e, ey?e, ei?e

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?ej?/
• IPA^(key): /??i?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?i?(?)

Noun

eye (uncountable)

1. awe, reverence, worshipfulness
2. horror, panic
3. that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
4. that which incites awe
5. that which incites terror

Related terms

• eifulle (rare)
• eiliche (rare)

Descendants

• English: ey (obsolete)

References

• “eie, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.

Etymology 2

Noun

eye

1. Alternative form of eie

Tatar

Adverb

eye

1. very, of course, emphatic adverb

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Interjection

eye

1. hey!

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[5] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, page 126

Tocharian B

Noun

eye ?

1. sheep

Umbundu

Pronoun

eye

1. (third-person singular pronoun)

See also