glance vs scan

glance

verb
  • To look briefly (at something). 

  • To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. 

  • 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. 

  • To sparkle. 

  • To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at. 

  • To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header. 

  • To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. 

  • To graze at a surface. 

noun
  • An incidental or passing thought or allusion. 

  • Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre. 

  • A brief or cursory look. 

  • A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side. 

  • A deflection. 

  • Glance coal. 

  • A sudden flash of light or splendour. 

scan

verb
  • To look about for; to look over quickly. 

  • To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. 

  • To read with an electronic device. 

  • To conform to a metrical structure. 

  • To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize. 

  • To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something. 

  • To read or mark so as to show a specific metre. 

  • To create an image of something with the use of a scanner. 

noun
  • Close investigation. 

  • An instance of scanning. 

  • The result or output of a scanning process. 

How often have the words glance and scan occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )