glint vs peek what difference
what is difference between glint and peek
English
Etymology
15th century. Borrowed from Scots glint; from Middle English glenten (“to shine, gleam; flash”); probably alteration of Old Norse [Term?]; from Middle High German glinzen; from Proto-Germanic *glintaną, *glintjaną; from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognate with Swedish glänta, glinta (“to slip, slide, gleam, shine”), Swedish glimt. Reintroduced into literary English by Robert Burns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlɪnt/
- Rhymes: -ɪnt
Noun
glint (plural glints)
- A short flash of light.
- I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.
Translations
Adjective
glint (comparative more glint, superlative most glint)
- (archaic, Shropshire, of a blade) Not sharp; dull.
- The knife is glint.
Verb
glint (third-person singular simple present glints, present participle glinting, simple past and past participle glinted)
- (intransitive) To flash or gleam briefly.
- A wedding ring glinted on her finger.
- (intransitive) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
- 1785, Robert Burns, The Holy Fair
- The rising sun owre Galston muirs, / Wi’ glorious light was glintin’
- 1785, Robert Burns, The Holy Fair
- (transitive) To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
- 1980, Inquiry Magazine
- The scientists theorized that a meteoroid, ranging in size from a speck of dust to a marble, might have struck the satellite and chipped off a bit of debris that glinted a ray of sun back on the Vela’s second sensor […]
- 1980, Inquiry Magazine
- (archaic, Shropshire, transitive) To dry; to wither.
- The sun glints grass and corn.
Translations
References
- Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 644–645
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: pēk, IPA(key): /piːk/
- Homophones: peak, peke, pique
- Rhymes: -iːk
Alternative forms
- peak, peke (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek.
Verb
peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)
- (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner’s Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
- We are peeking the value from the first index’s memory location.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner’s Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
Derived terms
- peekable
Translations
Noun
peek (plural peeks)
- A quick glance or look.
Derived terms
- sneak peek
Etymology 2
Noun
peek
- Misspelling of pique.
Anagrams
- Ekpe, Keep, Peke, keep, kepe, peke
Basque
Noun
peek
- ergative plural of pe
Hlai
Etymology
From Proto-Hlai *pʰaːk (“high”), from Pre-Hlai *paːk (Norquest, 2015).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Hlai) IPA(key): /pʰeːk˥/
Adjective
peek
- high