[Vocabulary] about see verb

[areev]

hi,everyone?:lol:

I was confused with these verbs
like glance,glimpse,eye up and many more


Can you mention the other verbs and explain them all in some sentences?


thanks a million

 

[mara_ce]

Glance: to give a rapid look.
Glance at/over/through/round = take a quick look.
She had glanced shyly at him from behind her fan.
He glanced at his watch / the clock / shop windows.
I glanced round the room before I left. (to check that nothing was missing)
She glanced down the list of names.
Glance over / through a letter.
Glance one´s eye down / over / through, etc. = to give a hurried reading or look.
He glanced his eye over the titles of the articles.

Glimpse: to see something or someone by chance for a very short time.
Catch a glimpse of… (more common than the verb glimpse)
I can´t describe him well, I only caught a glimpse of him as he drove off.
She caught a sudden glimpse of herself in the mirror.
I glimpsed someone behind the curtain.

Eye somebody up: to look at someone in a way that shows you think they are sexually attractive.
There was a group of lads at the bar, eyeing up every girl who walked in.

 

[areev]

thank you! but do you have the other see verbs?:up:

 

[mara_ce]

Yes, I have blink, glare, gaze, gape, glower, gloat, leer, ogle, peer, peep, peek, squint, stare, scowl, wink, scan, sight, survey, notice, spot, note, face, look askance at, google, browse, observe, examine, eye, scrutinize, sightsee, watch and gawp.
All of them are "ways of looking".

You can look them up in dictionaries:
Longman English Dictionary Online
Cambridge Dictionary Online: Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus - Cambridge University Press - Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press

If you need more examples to understand some of them, maybe I can help. :-D