different between looked vs glimpse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?kt/

Verb

looked

1. simple past tense and past participle of look

Adjective

looked (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having the specified look or appearance.
   • 1888, Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654

     Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B— who made that story Mr. D— told you.

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)

1. 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.

2. A sudden flash.
3. A faint idea; an inkling.

Translations

Verb

glimpse (third-person singular simple present glimpses, present participle glimpsing, simple past and past participle glimpsed)

1. (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.

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

2. (intransitive) To appear by glimpses.

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Synonyms

• perceive, notice, detect, espy, spot, catch sight of

Translations

Anagrams

• megilps