Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty. synonym: gaze.
- intransitive verb To be partially visible; show.
- noun A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.
- noun A nobleman.
- noun A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.
- noun A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.
- noun Archaic A companion; a fellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To look narrowly or sharply: commonly implying searching or an effort to see: as, to
peer into the darkness. - To appear; come in sight.
- To appear; seem.
- To play the peer; be a peer or equal; take or be of equal rank.
- To make equal to or of the same rank with.
- noun One of the same rank, qualities, endowments, character, or the like; an equal; a match.
- noun A companion; a fellow; an associate.
- noun A nobleman of an especial dignity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Poetic To come in sight; to appear.
- intransitive verb To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep.
- transitive verb rare To make equal in rank.
- transitive verb rare To be, or to assume to be, equal.
- noun One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
- noun A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
- noun A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron.
- noun the British House of Lords. See
Parliament . - noun the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. - noun Someone who
pees , someone who urinates. - noun Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
- noun A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a
peerage , and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed bycommoners . - verb Internet To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with
transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
- noun a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- verb look searchingly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Too often, she says, the phrase "peer pressure" is used negatively.
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I'm using the term peer-review in an inaccurate way; I refer not just to moderation in journals, but the informal network used to decide what's worth examining and what's not.
Scientific Consensus or Religious War?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The term peer-review refers to two confusingly related processes.
Measuring Precipitation on Willis' Boots « Climate Audit 2007
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For years the term peer-to-peer has been a synonym for piracy to most of the mainstream public.
TorrentFreak 2010
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This is based on the notion that mothers and fathers have a great deal of information to share with each other about raising kids in a twenty-first century worlda concept Ive been proposing since 1982, which I call peer groups for parents.
Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009
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This is based on the notion that mothers and fathers have a great deal of information to share with each other about raising kids in a twenty-first century worlda concept Ive been proposing since 1982, which I call peer groups for parents.
Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009
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The following essay describes the emergence, or expansion, of a specific type of relational dynamic, which I call peer to peer.
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The following essay describes the emergence, or expansion, of a specific type of relational dynamic, which I call peer to peer.
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In addition, there is a well-known, what we call a peer review process involving the two weapons design laboratories.
Press Briefing On Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ITY National Archives 1999
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And we produce what I call peer production, governors, and property.
P2P Foundation 2008
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The term sharing economy has many synonyms and near-synonyms, like gig economy, peer economy, collaborative economy, grassroots economy, and mesh economy.
The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival | JSTOR Daily Catherine Halley 2019
lampbane commented on the word peer
"I hear we'd go before a jury of our peers, and I've always seeded generously."
March 26, 2009
oroboros commented on the word peer
Janus-word: peer as an equal vs. peer as an elite, a superior.
August 23, 2014