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peer

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verb/pɪə//pɪː//pɪjə/
  1. 1

    To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.intransitive

    • As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d With broad and burning face.
  2. 2

    To come in sight; to appear.intransitiveobsolete

    • And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
    • I, I, let you alone, cunning Artificer! / See, hovv his gorget peeres aboue his govvne; / To tell the people, in vvhat danger he vvas.
noun/pɪə//pɪː//pɪjə/
  1. 1

    A look; a glance.

    • Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]
noun/pɪə̯//pɪɹ/
  1. 1

    Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).

    • In song he never had his peer.
    • Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers?
  2. 2

    Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).

  3. 3

    A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

    • a peer of the realm
  4. 4

    A comrade; a companion; an associate.

    • He all his Peeres in beautie did surpas,
verb/pɪə̯//pɪɹ/
  1. 1

    To make equal in rank.

    • Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.
  2. 2

    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.Internet

noun/piː.ə//pi.ɚ/
  1. 1

    Someone who pees, someone who urinates.informal

    • As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?).
    • SOunds^([sic]) like you've already broken him quite well, if he's peeing when disciplined. Pretty sad. He's not a dog, not that treating a dog like this is any better either. You've turned your child into a submissive peer.

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