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Gleams vs Glimpse - What's the difference?

gleams | glimpse |

As nouns the difference between gleams and glimpse

is that gleams is while glimpse is a brief look, glance, or peek.

As verbs the difference between gleams and glimpse

is that gleams is third person singular simple present of to gleam while glimpse is to see or view briefly or incompletely.

gleams

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • Third person singular simple present of to gleam.

    • glimpse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief look, glance, or peek.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *: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.
  • A sudden flash.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
  • A faint idea; an inkling.

    • Verb

    (glimps)
  • To see or view briefly or incompletely.
    • I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
  • To appear by glimpses.
    • (Drayton)

    Synonyms

    * perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of