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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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recognize
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k??na?z/, (sometimes proscribed) /???k?na?z/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow (“to recognize, perceive as”), compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna.
Alternative forms
- recognise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
recognize (third-person singular simple present recognizes, present participle recognizing, simple past and past participle recognized) (North American and Oxford British spelling)
- (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
- (transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
- (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
- (transitive) To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
- (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
- 1637, Robert Monro, Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys
- before the siege was layd to the Towne, of minde to recognize, he fell unawares amongst an Ambushcade
- 1637, Robert Monro, Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys
- (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From re- +? cognize.
Alternative forms
- re-cognize
Verb
recognize (third-person singular simple present recognizes, present participle recognizing, simple past and past participle recognized) (North American and Oxford British spelling)
- to cognize again
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