English

Noun

glimpse ‎(plural glimpses)

1. A brief look, glance, or peek.

   I only got a glimpse of the car, so I can tell you the colour but not the registration number.‎

   • Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)

     Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.

   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

2. A sudden flash.
   • John Milton (1608-1674)

     Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.

3. A faint idea; an inkling.

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Verb

glimpse ‎(third-person singular simple present glimpses, present participle glimpsing, simple past and past participle glimpsed)

1. (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.

   I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.

2. To appear by glimpses.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

Synonyms

• perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of

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