glance vs scrutiny

glance

noun
  • A brief or cursory look. 

  • An incidental or passing thought or allusion. 

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

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

  • A deflection. 

  • Glance coal. 

  • A sudden flash of light or splendour. 

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. 

scrutiny

noun
  • Thorough inspection of a situation or a case. 

  • Intense study of someone or something. 

  • A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written. 

  • An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll. 

  • An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day. 

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