glimpse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.

   “Morning!—the Vestal Mother of the Sun / Seem'st thou to be, since from thy bosom born, / (Thou that first glimpsest—like a white-stoled nun!—) / He springeth forth—Oh! thou triumphal Morn!— / His race of glory and of joy to run; […]”

2. fiil To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.

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

3. fiil Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.

   “The door always opens directly into the kitchen, without any vestibule; and, glimpsing in, you see that a cottager's life must be the very plainest and homeliest that ever was lived by men and women.”

4. fiil To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.

   “O Lothſome place where I / Haue ſene and herd my dere / When in my hart her eye / Hath made her thought appere / By glimſing with ſuch grace / As fortune it ne would, / That laſten any ſpace, / Betwene vs lenger ſhould.”

5. fiil To appear or start to appear, especially faintly or unclearly; to dawn.

   “Straitvvaies on heapes the thronging cloudes ariſe, / As though the heauen vvere angry vvith the night, / Deformed ſhadovves, glimpſing in his ſight / As darkenes, for it vvould more darkened be, / Through thoſe poore crannies forcde it ſelfe to ſee.”

6. fiil Sometimes followed by out: to provide a brief and incomplete look.
7. isim Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look.

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

8. isim A brief, sudden flash of light; a glimmer.

   “[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?”

9. isim A faint or imprecise idea; an inkling.

   “Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.”

10. isim A brief, unspecified amount of time; a moment.

    “[…] Alwin smiled, / When aught that from his young lips archly fell / The gloomy film from Harold's eye beguiled; / And pleased for a glimpse appeared the woeful Childe.”

11. isim A faint (and often temporary) appearance; a tinge.

    “Reuiued with a glimſe of grace old ſorowes to let fal, / The hidden ſtraines I know and ſecret ſnares of loue: / How ſoone a loke wil print a thought, that neuer may remoue.”