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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peek
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ Dot peeked in when he was out at work.
▪ He peeked in to the sitting-room.
▪ A letter to his wife Abigail told of how he once gathered nerve to peek in on forbidding Catholic worship in Philadelphia.
▪ The route peeks in and out of fir and pine, a gentle grade, just a 450-foot gain over 3 miles.
▪ One day an older black student, Judy Edwards, peeked in at the door about half an hour late.
▪ Standing tiptoe on the mushy lawn, he tapped on the windows and tried to peek in.
▪ We were tucked in the corner and anybody who wanted could peek in or walk in or walk past.
out
▪ I could feel the neighbors looking at me, peeking out from behind their Howlett posters.
▪ Rubberneck, the beating stopped, a pause, peeked out between his fingers.
▪ Pieces of the wings, shorn off by the impact, peeked out from under one corner of the tarp.
▪ We have to keep dragging ourselves to our feet to peek out again and again, until we have a clear vision.
▪ I was more interested in Paul, a shy boy who peeked out from under a sheaf of straight black hair.
▪ On extremely dry summers the tops of the old town's buildings are rumoured to peek out from the lake.
▪ Gold, earthen tones peek out from shadows with the help of subtle lighting scheme.
through
▪ By morning thick clouds drift over, but the sky between them is deep blue and occasionally the sun peeks through.
■ VERB
take
▪ Charcol recommends taking a peek at Stroud &038; Swindon.
▪ But take a peek: This year is a little different.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sneak a look/glance/peek
▪ Babur sneaks a look at the policewoman.
▪ I sneaked a look at my medical report; slow heartbeat, low metabolism.
▪ I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust.
▪ Just before we left, I raised up to straighten my coat and sneaked a look at the McLaren girl.
▪ Men sneak looks all the time!
▪ Occasionally they sneak glances at the businessmen -- who look back at them in mutual amazement and fear.
▪ Only the men would sneak glances at her, admiring the shapely figure showing in the plain uniform.
▪ The chairman sneaks a look at some of the messages on Doreen's card.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Billy peeked out from under his blanket.
▪ No fair! You peeked!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each users entries are kept separate from the others and can be password protected to prevent anyone else from peeking.
▪ Goldilocks' embarkation on her voyage of self-discovery begins with her trying to peek into the bears' house.
▪ He peeked outside the window curtains, at the children on the street.
▪ I tried peeking down through a gap between the bamboo slats.
▪ Nevertheless, a rainbow is peeking over the horizon.
▪ Trying not to disturb the azaleas, she peeked in the dining room window.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peek

Peek \Peek\, v. i. [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick, E. pique. Cf. Peak.] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peek

late 14c., piken "look quickly and slyly," of unknown origin. The words peek, keek, and peep all were used with more or less the same meaning 14c.-15c.; perhaps the ultimate source was Middle Dutch kieken. Related: Peeked; peeking.

peek

"a peek, glance," 1844, from peek (v.).

Wiktionary
peek

Etymology 1 vb. 1 To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. 2 To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. 3 (context computing transitive English) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. Etymology 2

vb. (misspelling of pique English)

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WordNet
peek

  1. n. a secret look [syn: peep]

  2. v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting" [syn: glance, glint]

Wikipedia
PEEK

PEEK

Density

Young's modulus (E)

Tensile strength (σ)

Elongation @ break

notch test

Glass temperature

melting point

Thermal Conductivity

Water absorption, 24 hours (ASTM D 570)

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Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a colourless organic thermoplastic polymer in the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) family, used in engineering applications.

Peek (mobile Internet device)

Peek Inc. is a mobile technology company headquartered in New York, NY. Its flagship product is the Genius Cloud, a set of cloud services and client applications that equip mass market phones with smartphone-quality apps. The company's roots are with its mobile Internet device, an ultra low-cost smartphone that was an email-only mobile handheld device launched in September 2008.

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Peek (crater)

Peek is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Mare Smythii near the eastern limb of the Moon. This part of the lunar surface is subject to the effects of libration, and the crater can be hidden from sight during an unfavorable libration. Even when visible, however, the crater is seen almost edge-on, making it difficult to see much detail from the Earth. Due to foreshortening the crater appears close to Schubert, even though the two are about 60 km apart. It lies to the south-southeast of the large crater Neper.

This crater is generally circular and bowl-shaped, with a small interior floor at the center of the sloping inner walls. The crater has a higher albedo than the surrounding dark lunar mare, making it appear slightly brighter than the nearby terrain. The crater has not been significantly eroded by subsequent impacts.

Peek (data type operation)

In computer science, peek is an operation on certain abstract data types, specifically sequential collections such as stacks and queues, which returns the value of the top ("front") of the collection without removing the element from the collection. It thus returns the same value as operations such as "pop" or "dequeue", but does not modify the data.

The name "peek" is similar to the basic "push" and "pop" operations on a stack, but the name for this operation varies depending on data type and language. Peek is generally considered an inessential operation, compared with the more basic operations of adding and removing data, and as such is not included in the basic definition of these data types. However, since it is a useful operation and generally easily implemented, it is frequently included in practice, and in some definitions peek is included as basic, with pop (or analog) defined in terms of peek; see abstract definition.

Usage examples of "peek".

I peeked back over the covers and noticed Adeem leaning into Ty, whispering.

Beany crep out esy and hunted round til we found the string and we tide it agen as tite as we cood and then we crep back into the porch and peeked through the window.

She was about to give up in defeat, go downstairs and tell the police that Julia must have taken the head shots with her when she went to her audition, when she saw the large manila envelope peeking out from under the shaft of the guitar.

Within the pile of sand and soil and rock from which the pansies sprouted, were a maze of tiny crevices and caverns, and from each peeked the feathered head of an axolotl, speckled and foolish.

Bongo is sitting up there on the edge of the roof about seven stories above the ground peeking down with the baby in his arms, and he is holding this baby just like a Mama would, but anybody can see that Bongo does not care for the row below, and once he lifts the baby high above his head as if to bean somebody with it.

Old Mr Buick Roadmaster had gone around back for a peek at the Redfern, had foolishly dared the embankment slope to get an even better look .

Several times Jonathan could hear him clumping into the bedroom to have a peek at Cosset, who still snored away.

Several times Jonathan could hear him clumping into the bedroom to have a peek at Gosset, who still snored away.

Weeds peeked through the cracks and gaps, and the shoulders crumbled away into the earth around them.

Windows rose in layers, dripping filagree crowns and gingerbread balconies, peeking out from dormers, or under gables.

A score of folk had gathered on the Green since the gleeman appeared from the inn, young men and women down to children who peeked, wide-eyed and silent, from behind the older onlookers.

The young man got off the elevator on the floor above and walked down a flight, peeking over the banister rail to see Hickock letting himself into an apartment.

Ken covered his eyes but peeked through his closed fingers to look at Hissa one last time.

His skin was dark as oiled mahogany, his teeth flashing white, and below his kaffiyeh peeked tight brown curls.

In a swoop, only half aware of what he was doing, he gathered Kook in one arm and ran out the door: Fina, with tropical birds peeking from her green dress whenever the black coat flew open, followed, hands joined with Tolito and Jose in a line.