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glimpse

  [glimps] noun, verb, glimpsed, glimps⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a very brief, passing look, sight, or view.
2. a momentary or slight appearance.
3. a vague idea; inkling.
4. Archaic. a gleam, as of light.
–verb (used with object)
5. to catch or take a glimpse of.
–verb (used without object)
6. to look briefly; glance (usually fol. by at).
7. Archaic. to come into view; appear faintly.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME glimsen (v.); c. MHG glimsen to glow; akin to glimmer

Related forms:
glimpser, noun

Synonyms:
5. spot, spy, view, sight, espy.
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glimpse   (glĭmps)   
n.  
  1. A brief, incomplete view or look.
  2. Archaic A brief flash of light.
v.   glimpsed, glimps·ing, glimps·es

v.   tr.
To obtain a brief, incomplete view of.
v.   intr.
To look briefly; glance: glimpsed at the headlines.

[Middle English glimsen, to glisten, glance; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
glimps'er n.
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Glimpse

Glimpse\, n. [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]

1. A sudden flash; transient luster.

LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. --Milton.

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

Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen. --S. Rogers.

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. --Chaucer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : glimpse
Spanish: vislumbre, vista momentánea,
German: flüchtiger Blick,
Japanese: 一見
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glimpse 
c.1400, "to shine faintly," probably from O.E. *glimsian "shine faintly," from P.Gmc. *glim- (see gleam). If so, the intrusive -p- would be there to ease pronunciation. Sense of "catch a quick view" first recorded 1779.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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