When you GLANDE AT STH, you look at it very quickly and then look away, for example, when we get stuck with a board, we glanced at the clock or the watch, we don’t keep looking at the clock/ watch because we don’t want to be rude. a glance is intentional. you deliberately look in a particular direction. — When you, you CATCH A GLIMPSE OF STH, you catch a quick sight of it, for example, while you are in the jungle, you may catch a glimpse of a tiger. in the case of a glimpse, it is the object which appears before your eyes. in the case of a glance, it is the eyes wich go to the object