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"text": "I only got a glimpse of the car, so I can tell you the colour but not the registration number.",
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"ref": "1798, Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend",
"text": "Here hid by shrub-wood, there by glimpses seen.",
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"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703",
"text": "On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.",
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{
"ref": "2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2",
"text": "An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.",
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"masculine"
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"word": "scorcio"
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"sense": "brief look",
"word": "kitenga wheriko"
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"masculine"
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"(archaic) A sudden flash, a glimmer."
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"(figurative) A faint idea; an inkling."
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"text": "I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.",
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"ref": "1916, Florence Earle Coates, “Cendrillon”, in Poems, volume I",
"text": "A hope that, glimpsed, must fade; / A form, illusion made, / That, vanishing, shall come no more again!",
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{
"ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
"text": "Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.",
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"(transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely."
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{
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{
"word": "notice"
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{
"word": "detect"
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{
"word": "espy"
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{
"word": "spot"
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{
"word": "catch sight of"
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"code": "rup",
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"word": "ndzãrescu"
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "зървам"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "sǎziram",
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"word": "съзирам"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "zahlédnout"
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "een glimp opvangen"
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "ekvidi"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "silmäillä"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "vilkaista"
},
{
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"sense": "see briefly",
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{
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "albiscar"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "entdecken"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "erhaschen"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "vlépo fevgaléa",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "βλέπω φευγαλέα"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "intravedere"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "kite wheriko"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "wheriko"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "entrevéser"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "vislumbrar"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "întrezări"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "zări"
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{
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"roman": "uvídetʹ mélʹkom",
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"tags": [
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"word": "entrever"
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{
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"word": "ojear"
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"To appear by glimpses."
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"(intransitive) To appear by glimpses."
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"ref": "2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2",
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{
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{
"code": "ca",
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{
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"sense": "brief look",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "brief look",
"word": "pilkahdus"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "gl",
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{
"code": "de",
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{
"code": "he",
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{
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"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief look",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "occhiata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief look",
"word": "scorcio"
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{
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{
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"code": "oc",
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "brief look",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief look",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "olhadela"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "brief look",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "gd",
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],
"word": "plathadh"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "brief look",
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{
"code": "cy",
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],
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},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "oygnblik",
"sense": "brief look",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אויגנבליק"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "probljasǎk",
"sense": "sudden flash",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "проблясък"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sudden flash",
"word": "välähdys"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "sudden flash",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "ateibo"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "sudden flash",
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "sudden flash",
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],
"word": "relance"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sudden flash",
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"word": "Aufblitzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sudden flash",
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"word": "Aufleuchten"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "relance"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sudden flash",
"word": "atisbo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "faint idea",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Schimmer"
}
],
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"text": "I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.",
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{
"ref": "1916, Florence Earle Coates, “Cendrillon”, in Poems, volume I",
"text": "A hope that, glimpsed, must fade; / A form, illusion made, / That, vanishing, shall come no more again!",
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},
{
"ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
"text": "Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.",
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"(transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely."
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{
"word": "notice"
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{
"word": "detect"
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{
"word": "espy"
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{
"word": "spot"
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{
"word": "catch sight of"
}
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"To appear by glimpses."
],
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"(intransitive) To appear by glimpses."
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{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "ndzãrescu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zǎrvam",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "зървам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎziram",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "съзирам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "zahlédnout"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "een glimp opvangen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "ekvidi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "silmäillä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "vilkaista"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "entrevoir"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "albiscar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "entdecken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "erhaschen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "vlépo fevgaléa",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "βλέπω φευγαλέα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "intravedere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "kite wheriko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "wheriko"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "entrevéser"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "vislumbrar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "întrezări"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "zări"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "to see",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvídetʹ mélʹkom",
"sense": "see briefly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уви́деть ме́льком"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "to view",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "béglo vzgljanútʹ",
"sense": "see briefly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "бе́гло взгляну́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "to glance",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gljánutʹ",
"sense": "see briefly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "гля́нуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "entrever"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "atisbar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "vislumbrar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"word": "ojear"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "skymta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "see briefly",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "glimta"
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],
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}
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