Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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glimpse

/ˈɡlɪm(p)s/ verb, noun

Forms glimpses glimpsing glimpsed glimpsest glimpsedst glimpseth glinse glympse glymse glimse

  1. verb To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
  2. verb (figurative) To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely. “I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.”
  3. verb Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
  4. verb To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.
  5. verb (archaic or poetic) To appear or start to appear, especially faintly or unclearly; to dawn.
  6. verb (rare) Sometimes followed by out: to provide a brief and incomplete look.
  7. noun Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look. “I only got a glimpse of the car, so I can tell you the colour but not the registration number.”
  8. noun (archaic) A brief, sudden flash of light; a glimmer.
  9. noun A faint or imprecise idea; an inkling.
  10. noun (rare) A brief, unspecified amount of time; a moment.
  11. noun (obsolete) A faint (and often temporary) appearance; a tinge.

Synonyms

glitter coruscate flash gleam glisten luster sheen shimmer shine sparkle glance peek gander bat of an eye bit blink of an eye crack eyeblink half a mo instant coup d'oeil

Etymology

The verb is derived from earlier glimse (obsolete), from Middle English glimsen (“to dazzle; to glisten; to glance with the eyes”), possibly from Old English *glimsian, from Proto-West Germanic *glimmisōjan, from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Doublet of glimmer.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Dutch glimp (“glimpse”, noun)
Middle Dutch glinsen (modern Dutch glinsteren (“to glint, glitter, shimmer, sparkle; to glance”), glimmen (“to gleam, shine”))
Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”), glinsen (“to glimmer, shine”)
Middle Low German glinsen, glintzen, glinzen (“to shimmer, shine”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sudden flash; transient luster.
  2. noun A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
  3. verb to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.
  4. verb To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of. Some glimpsing and no perfect sight. Chaucer.

Etymology [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “glimpse”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details