peer

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A girl standing with her peers.

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.

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.

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peer

a person or thing of the same rank, value, quality, ability, etc.; equal; specif., an equal before the law
a noble; esp., a British duke, marquess, earl, viscount, or baron
a person who is a member of the same group, class, etc. as another: a professor's academic peers

Origin of peer

Middle English peir from Old French per from Classical Latin par, an equal: see par

Archaic to match or equal

peer Idioms

peer of the realm

any of the British peers entitled to a seat in the House of Lords

to look closely and searchingly, or squint, as in trying to see more clearly
to come out or show slightly; come partly into sight
Old Poet. to appear

Origin of peer

uncertain or unknown; perhaps aphetic from appear

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peer

intransitive verb

peered, peer·ing, peers

To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty. See Synonyms at gaze.
To be partially visible; show: The moon peered from behind dark clouds.

Origin of peer

Sense 1, perhaps a variant of Early Modern English pire ( from Middle English piren ) ( perhaps akin to Low German piren to search closely ) Sense 2, perhaps a variant of Early Modern English pear ( from Middle English peren ) ( probably alteration of apperen to appear ; see appear . )

noun

A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age: children who are easily influenced by their peers.
a. A nobleman.
b. A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.
A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.
Archaic A companion; a fellow: “To stray away into these forests drear, / Alone, without a peer” ( John Keats )

Origin of peer

Middle English from Old French per equal, peer from Latin pār ; see perə-² in Indo-European roots.

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
to come in sight; to appear.

Origin

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”).

Noun

(plural peers)

Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
1. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
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
A comrade; a companion; an associate.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

to make equal in rank.
(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.

Related terms

peer assessment
peer review, peer reviewed
peer pressure
peerless
the Peers

Origin

From Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin par.

Noun

(plural peers)

Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

Anagrams

pere, père

Origin

pee +‎ -er

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peer - Computer Definition

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.

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