Peer definition
A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.
Children who are easily influenced by their peers.
noun
To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty.
verb
To be partially visible; show.
The moon peered from behind dark clouds.
verb
A person or thing of the same rank, value, quality, ability, etc.; equal; specif., an equal before the law.
noun
A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.
noun
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(old poet.) To appear.
verb
To peer is defined as to look closely or intently at something that may difficult to see.
Peer is to wake in the night and try to see in the darkness.
verb
A nobleman.
noun
A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.
noun
The definition of a peer is an equal in age, skill or another category.
An example of a peer is someone who graduated in the same year as a fellow student.
noun
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(archaic) A companion; a fellow.
noun
To come in sight; to appear.
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.
verb
Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
noun
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Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
noun
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
A peer of the realm.
noun
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
noun
To make equal in rank.
verb
A noble; esp., a British duke, marquess, earl, viscount, or baron.
noun
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A person who is a member of the same group, class, etc. as another.
A professor's academic peers.
noun
(archaic) To match or equal.
verb
To look closely and searchingly, or squint, as in trying to see more clearly.
verb
On the same level or providing the same function. In networking, a peer is a node that provides the same functionality as another. For example, two desktop PCs in a network are peers. A desktop PC and a server are not peers as they perform different operations. The desktop PC may query the server for business data, but the server does not query the PC for the same data. See peering.
To come out or show slightly; come partly into sight.
verb
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peer of the realm
- any of the British peers entitled to a seat in the House of Lords
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of peer
- Middle English piren (probably from Frisian piren) peren (short for aperen to appear appear)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old French per equal, peer from Latin pār perə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian piren (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”).
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