glimpse

[glimpse]

If you had a brief or incomplete look at something, you had a glimpse. "He didn't mean to peek, but he got a glimpse of his birthday present when his wife tried to sneak it into the house. Of course, it's pretty hard to hide a ladder."

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A sudden flash; transient luster.

Noun
a quick look

Noun
a brief or incomplete view; "from the window he could catch a glimpse of the lake"

Noun
a vague indication; "he caught only a glimpse of the professor''s meaning"

Verb
catch a glimpse of or see briefly; "We glimpsed the Queen as she got into her limousine"


n.
A sudden flash; transient luster.

n.
A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.

n.
A faint idea; an inkling.

v. i.
to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

v. t.
To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.


Glimpse

Glimpse , n. [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.] 1. A sudden flash; transient luster.
LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.
2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
3. A faint idea; an inkling.

Glimpse

Glimpse , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimpsed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing.] to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.

Glimpse

Glimpse, v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.

A sudden flash; transient luster.

to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

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Usage Examples

The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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Other Usage Examples

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

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