Peer

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  • noun. A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.
  • noun. undefined
  • 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. A companion; a fellow.
  • intransitive verb. To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty. synonym: gaze.
  • intransitive verb. To be partially visible; show.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To be, or to assume to be, equal.
  • intransitive verb. To come in sight; to appear.
  • intransitive verb. To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep.
  • transitive verb. To make equal in rank.
  • 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. undefined
  • noun. the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
  • 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 by commoners.
  • verb. 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.
  • noun. Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "Too often, she says, the phrase "peer pressure" is used negatively."