different between glimpse vs hidebehind
glimpse
English
Alternative forms
- glinse
- glimse (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier glimse, from Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), akin to Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”), Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), Middle Dutch glinsen and Middle Low German glinsen, glintzen, glinzen (“to shine, shimmer”), Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?mps/
- Rhymes: -?mps
Noun
glimpse (plural glimpses)
- A brief look, glance, or peek.
- 1798, Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend
- Here hid by shrub-wood, there by glimpses seen.
- 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.
- 1798, Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend
- A sudden flash.
- A faint idea; an inkling.
Translations
Verb
glimpse (third-person singular simple present glimpses, present participle glimpsing, simple past and past participle glimpsed)
- (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.
- I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
- (intransitive) To appear by glimpses.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
Synonyms
- perceive, notice, detect, espy, spot, catch sight of
Translations
Anagrams
- megilps
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hidebehind
English
Etymology
hide +? behind
Noun
hidebehind (plural hidebehinds)
- A creature in United States folklore that may be glimpsed but never seen clearly.
- 1984, John Wood Campbell (ed.), Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
- She meets sirens and sea serpents and hidebehinds, wicked kings and repulsive recluses, capitalist magicians and seven-league boots and magic pomegranates.
- 1984, John Wood Campbell (ed.), Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
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- what is a hidebehind
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