GLANCE OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glance over mean? 

• GLANCE OVER (verb)
  The verb GLANCE OVER has 1 sense:

1. examine hastily

  Familiarity information: GLANCE OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLANCE OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Examine hastily

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

glance over; rake; run down; scan; skim

Context example:

She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi

Hypernyms (to "glance over" is one way to...):

examine; see (observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

He could not but take it, and yet whilst he was stalking off he threw a proud glance over his shoulder at the butcher, and he said, “Monsieur, I have a dog!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She stood fearlessly in front of him, still stroking her bird; but twice she threw a swift questioning glance over her shoulder, as one who is in search of aid.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have some papers here, said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter’s night on either side of the fire, which I really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to glance over.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mosquitoes came buzzing in and hummed sullenly round the room; the sea, which I could hear from thence, rumbled dull like an earthquake—black clouds were casting up over it; the moon was setting in the waves, broad and red, like a hot cannon-ball—she threw her last bloody glance over a world quivering with the ferment of tempest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)