Peer

Verb

 * 1)  To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
 * 2) * 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
 * 1) * 1912:, , Chapter 6
 * He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.

Noun

 * 1) Somebody or something who/that is at an equal level.
 * 2) A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

Verb

 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * peer-to-peer

Related terms

 * peer assessment
 * peer review, peer reviewed
 * peer pressure
 * without peer
 * peerless
 * the Peers

Adjectives for Peer
painstaking; puissant; contemporary; penniless; wrong-incensed; gentle; lustrous; witty; notorious; impecunious; favorite.

Adverbs for Peer
earnestly; intently; timidly; curiously; cautiously; anxiously; fearfully; furtively; surreptitiously; slyly.

Thesaurus
Brahman, appear, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, associate, autopsy, baron, baroness, baronet, be curious, become visible, bend the eyes, blue blood, bore, break through, burn with curiosity, canvass, check, check out, check over, check up on, coequal, colleague, compeer, confrere, count, counterpart, countess, daimio, delve into, dig around for, dig into, dig up, direct the eyes, ditto, duchess, duke, earl, emerge, equal, equipollent, equivalent, esquire, examine, explore, eye, fathom, fellow, gape, gaup, gawk, gentleman, give an examination, glare, gloat, go into, go over, goggle, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, indagate, inquire, inspect, interrogate, investigate, lace-curtain, lady, laird, landgrave, like, look, look at, look into, look over, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, marchioness, margrave, marquis, match, mate, monitor, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, nose around for, nose out, observe, opposite number, optimate, overhaul, overlook, palsgrave, parallel, pass over, pass under review, patrician, peek, peep, peep out, peer at, peer into, peruse, play peekaboo, plumb, poke into, pore over, postmortem, probe, pry, pry into, query, question, quiz, review, rival, rubber, rubberneck, run over, scan, scrutinize, search into, seek, seigneur, seignior, set an examination, show, sift, silk-stocking, size, size up, snoop, sound, sovereign, spy, squire, stare, study, survey, swell, take a peep, take stock of, take the measure, thoroughbred, twin, upper-cruster, viscount, viscountess, waldgrave, want to know

Etymology 1
Variant of piren, peren:

Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman peir, per, from  par.

Verb

 * Finnish: tiirailla, tähyillä
 * French: scruter du regard
 * German: spähen


 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: вглядываться

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: Gleichaltriger, Gleichaltrige, Gleichaltrige, Ebenbürtiger, Ebenbürtige, Ebenbürtige, Beaufsichtigender, Beaufsichtigende, Beaufsichtigende
 * Italian:, ,  persona di pari condizione sociale
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: ровня
 * Scottish Gaelic: leithid
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: akran, yaşıt, emsal, lord, asilzade, taydaş
 * !Xóõ:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ευγενής
 * Hungarian: nemes


 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пэр
 * Spanish:


 * : pero
 * : igual
 * : Adel
 * : kika

Anagrams

 * pere, père

Noun

 * 1) pear
 * 2) light bulb

Anagrams

 * reep

Noun

 * 1) A pear.

Verb

 * 1) To peer.

Verb

 * 1)  to break wind, to fart

Etymology
From pedere:, present active infinitive of pedo:

Related terms

 * pedo
 * pedo