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Meaning of "glimpser" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GLIMPSER

glimpser  [ɡlɪmpsə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLIMPSER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Glimpser is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GLIMPSER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of glimpser in the English dictionary

The definition of glimpser in the dictionary is someone who catches sight of briefly or momentarily. Other definition of glimpser is someone who looks or glances briefly or cursorily.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLIMPSER


eclipser
ɪˈklɪpsə
lapser
ˈlæpsə
relapser
rɪˈlæpsə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLIMPSER

glidingly
gliff
glift
glim
glime
glimmer
glimmering
glimmeringly
glimmery
glimpse
Glinka
glint
glinty
glioblastoma
glioma
gliomata
gliomatosis
gliomatous
gliosis
glisk

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLIMPSER

advertiser
adviser
browser
closer
composer
cruiser
dispenser
Fraser
Kaiser
laser
lesser
loser
passer
poser
proposer
ser
teaser
user
utiliser
web browser

Synonyms and antonyms of glimpser in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «glimpser» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLIMPSER

Find out the translation of glimpser to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of glimpser from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «glimpser» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

glimpser
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

glimpser
570 millions of speakers

English

glimpser
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

glimpser
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

glimpser
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

glimpser
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

glimpser
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

glimpser
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

glimpser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Glimpser
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

glimpser
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

glimpser
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

glimpser
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Glimpser
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

glimpser
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

glimpser
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्लिम्परर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

glimpser
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

glimpser
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

glimpser
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

glimpser
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

glimpser
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

glimpser
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

glimpser
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

glimpser
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glimpser
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of glimpser

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GLIMPSER»

The term «glimpser» is used very little and occupies the 189.225 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GLIMPSER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «glimpser» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «glimpser» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about glimpser

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLIMPSER»

Discover the use of glimpser in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glimpser and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Interactive Dramaturgies: New Approaches in Multimedia ...
The video signal that comes into either the video input or the onboard camera is analyzed by glimpser according to parameters set in a hie read in by Glimpser at startup. One parameter determines the brightness level of the threshold below ...
Heide Hagebölling, 2004
2
Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials
During an unpublished interview conducted in his studio in 1959 in the presence of several friends, de Kooning called himself a “slipping glimpser” and talked at length about the importance for his art of glimpsing tiny things, adding that when  ...
Susan Lake, Willem De Kooning, Michael Roy Schilling, 2010
3
Cyberarts
The first is vision Software known as glimpser, which accepts the incoming video stream and draws basic information from it. The second takes this information and uses it to control the display. The glimpser has the ability to find regions of a  ...
Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, 1999
4
Boom: The New York City Flaneur in Postwar American ...
I'm like the slipping glimpser.” This relationship between the visual and tangible domains of experience recalls Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological notion of the visual field or chiasmus as “an intercorporeal being, a presumptive domain of the  ...
Monika Gehlawat, 2008
5
Emergency Measures
SLIPPING GLIMPSER Blighted diners club dog bonk nuts soon roofed bereft of left wings severed in flight !He never knew what hit him! hits him. A thousand years go by and it is only night There is no art sake before the halting argument of the ...
Stephen Rodefer, 1987
6
New York Magazine
A believer in paradox and ambiguity (he called himself a "slipping glimpser" and said, "You have to change to stay the same"), de Kooning did. r. not like to close any doors. He knew that art must constantly remake itself; he could even admire ...
7
Penal abolition, the practical choice: a practical manual on ...
A glimpser is someone who has once glimpsed some reality of the criminal justice system that has shaken a little bit of their most naive assumptions about how it actually works. Perhaps a relative or friend has been victimized, and the police ...
Ruth Morris, 1995
8
De Kooning: An American Master
Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease.
Mark Stevens, Willem De Kooning, Annalyn Swan, 2004
9
The Detective's Note-book. Edited by C. Martel
... the glimpser could never tell. They drank the health quietly of the mysterious beauty of whom they heard so much, of whom they knew that she breathed the same atmosphere as themselves, and yet to them was a sealed book. This was the ...
Charles MARTEL (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Delf.]), 1860
10
Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience
The painter Willem De Kooning used a catchphrase, “slipping glimpser,” to describe his feeling of being alternately immersed in and standing outside his work. It seems curiously apt here. The participants in our gallery dialogues are indeed ...
Rika Burnham, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLIMPSER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term glimpser is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Stafford council worker launches first book
... of his beloved ex-wife, Claire. Transformed into Oracle, a Glimpser, Claire's prophecies predict even more tumultuous events to come. «Staff Newsletter, Apr 15»
2
SCHOLL SHOW
Other thought-provoking comments from the catalogue include the apt adoption of de Kooning's description “slipping glimpser” to describe the way we see Billy ... «Aboriginal Art Directory News, Apr 15»
3
Sunday in the Park With Ed Questions The Advancement Of Manet's …
I'm like a slipping glimpser”. For Ben Young, “the work I'm exhibiting transgresses the fundamentals of previous work by denying overt narrative ... «ArtLyst, Feb 15»
4
Are men's skinny pants supposed to be worn tight?
... should not pinch you or give you a muffin top, nor should your bulging crotch cause great embarrassment to the accidental glimpser. «The Globe and Mail, Feb 14»
5
Charles Burchfield, Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Its title salutes de Kooning by recalling his famous self-description as "a slipping glimpser," always surfing away from overcommitment to any ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Glimpser [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/glimpser>. Apr 2024 ».
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