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get — I [[t]ge̱t[/t]] CHANGING, CAUSING, MOVING, OR REACHING ♦ gets, getting, got, gotten (past tense & past participle) (In most of its uses get is a fairly informal word. Gotten is an American form of the past tense and past participle.) 1) V LINK… … English dictionary
glimpse — [[t]glɪ̱mps[/t]] glimpses, glimpsing, glimpsed 1) N COUNT: usu N of n If you get a glimpse of someone or something, you see them very briefly and not very well. Some of the fans had waited 24 hours outside the Hyde Park Hotel to catch a glimpse… … English dictionary
glimpse — [n] brief look eye, eyeball*, flash*, gander*, glance, glom*, gun*, impression, lamp*, look see*, peek, peep, quick look, sight, sighting, slant, squint, swivel*; concept 623 Ant. stare glimpse [v] look briefly catch sight of, check out, descry,… … New thesaurus
glimpse — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 brief sight of sb/sth ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, fleeting, the merest, momentary, quick ▪ occasional, rare ▪ Th … Collocations dictionary
glimpse — I UK [ɡlɪmps] / US noun [countable] Word forms glimpse : singular glimpse plural glimpses * 1) an occasion when you see someone or something for a moment only glimpse of: The crowd were anxious for a glimpse of the President. Every so often she… … English dictionary
glimpse — glimpse1 [ glımps ] noun count * 1. ) an occasion when you see someone or something for a moment only: glimpse of: The crowd were anxious for a glimpse of the President. Every so often she got a fleeting (=very quick) glimpse of the church… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
glimpse — 1 verb (T) 1 to see someone or something for a moment without getting a complete view of them: I glimpsed her face in the crowd, but then she was gone see glance 2 2 to begin to understand something for a moment: He glimpsed the despair that she… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
get — verb Get is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑employee, ↑finance, ↑weather, ↑winner Get is used with these nouns as the object: ↑abscess, ↑access, ↑accolade, ↑accommodation, ↑acknowledgement, ↑acne, ↑ … Collocations dictionary
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford — (1910) The first of song and dance man George M. Cohan s successful nonMusicAL works, Get Rich Quick Wallingford is based on George Randolph Chester s Saturday Evening Post short stories. This lighthearted comedy ran for 424 performances at… … The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater
glimpse — I. verb (glimpsed; glimpsing) Etymology: Middle English glimsen; akin to Middle High German glimsen to glimmer, Old English glǣm gleam Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. archaic glimmer 2. to look briefly … New Collegiate Dictionary
