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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peer
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
life peer
peer group
▪ the TV shows that are popular with his peer group
peer pressure
▪ Teenagers often start smoking because of peer pressure.
sb’s peer group (=people of the same age, social group etc)
▪ Many girls at school derive enormous strength from their peer groups.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hereditary
▪ For others, it's the removal of the hereditary peers or the Macpherson inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case.
▪ But the hereditary peers provide a ballast which distorts any pretence at representativeness.
▪ The defeat is the second inflicted on the Government since the expulsion of hereditary peers.
▪ Until his party's death, a hereditary peer, Lord Milford, was the sole Communist in parliament.
▪ The remaining 275 hereditary peers state no preference, though they would mostly vote Tory if pushed.
▪ Ironically, the hereditary peers thus became the only people who have the right to democratic representation in the second chamber.
▪ That would outrage the Tories, who would lose their last hereditary peers.
▪ Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father's death.
tory
▪ Picture, page 4 Rethink call from Tory peers follows banks' pull-out Minister in corner over student loans.
▪ The dissenting Tory peers stayed away; and the Bill was passed.
■ NOUN
group
▪ Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization.
▪ Anything that deviates from what is customary is going to raise questions among the peer group.
▪ Gradually, Garrett's home manufactured machines began to be noticed by his peer group of treasure hunters.
▪ The peer group of the extremist-activist typically shares her political opinions.
▪ Where affection is the preserve of family and friends, status is more the preserve of the wider peer group or community.
▪ Rather, the programs will use school-based education programs, family members and peer groups.
▪ The peer group makes decisions in a democratic way, with all owners having a say in the final decision.
▪ As the individual adolescent seeks to grow more independent of the family, peer groups and friends become important points of reference.
life
▪ Most of the hereditary element has gone, and more life peers will be created.
▪ She was created a life peer in 1990.
pressure
▪ Any lack of required work effort by an individual will affect the immediate group bonus and so peer pressure can be significant.
▪ They discovered spectator peer pressure, fans nudging recalcitrant neighbors to participate.
▪ Carl Gunnersley, defending Khan, said his behaviour was also affected by drink and peer pressure.
▪ In part, the growth of peer pressure will result from revolutionary changes in pay practices.
▪ These findings highlight the importance of peer pressures in adolescence.
▪ However, unsophisticated people should not let peer pressure push them into a fad.
▪ First, there was the peer pressure from my colleagues.
▪ And they are given interpersonal strategies to avoid peer pressure to make these unhealthy choices.
relationship
▪ The project runs a well-attended post-placement group where families discuss issues ranging from sexuality to peer relationships.
▪ How was I spending my time on peer relationships?
▪ He expected you to have excellent peer relationships and to help people who depend upon you.
▪ Managers in the computer company found it somewhat easier to establish supportive peer relationships than those in the securities firm.
▪ Some work-inhibited students do suffer from poor peer relationships.
▪ The subtleties of peer relationships are negotiated by generation after generation, in different ways and perhaps with different values or rules.
▪ A disturbing tendency is that some adolescent work-inhibited students narrow their peer relationships to others who also do poorly in school.
review
▪ The Geneva group describes peer review, voluntary, and mandatory monitoring schemes, but makes no recommendations.
▪ A peer review would require no more than a scan of the vast international medical literature.
▪ The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review.
▪ It was never published in a reputable journal or subjected to the normal peer review.
▪ The authors also say that peer review is ineffective as a mechanism for restructuring scientific activity.
▪ A system of peer review was also introduced to make qualitative judgments about teaching abilities.
▪ About half of the papers are rejected after being read by two editors without being sent for external peer review.
▪ The method can thus also be used as form of peer review.
■ VERB
become
▪ The youth are also taught this questioning strategy when they become peer educators.
▪ Informal observations suggest that it first becomes popular as a peer group language at the age of eleven or twelve.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At about three years old, children begin to take an interest in their peers.
▪ Everyone wants to be successful in the eyes of their peers.
▪ The jury system gives you the basic right to be judged by your peers.
▪ The respect of his peers in the research community is very important to him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Few of his peers scoffed, but even fewer followed his example of actually taking it on the course.
▪ How was I spending my time on peer relationships?
▪ It gives evidence of the approval of peers and keeps one in contact with the traditions of the past.
▪ Relationships with peers, not superiors, seemed the developmental relationships that mattered.
▪ Six were Etonians, three were peers, and another three were knights or baronets.
▪ So we put together a list of students who were peer mentors.
▪ The Government is to reintroduce a bill curbing the right to jury trial, which has twice been thrown out by peers.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
cautiously
▪ Again he pressed himself against the wall and peered cautiously into the hall.
▪ She peered cautiously inside the temple.
▪ Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow, and peered cautiously over the lip.
▪ I thought she might be under the front part of the colonnade, and peered cautiously round the corner.
closely
▪ Mrs Carson was peering closely at her own image in the mirror.
▪ I stooped down before the stone and peered closely at it.
▪ Fen removed the cloth and peered closely at her head.
intently
▪ Her black eyes peered intently into mine as she nodded sympathetically.
▪ That means imagining yourself as you were at an earlier time, peering intently into buried memories about yourself.
▪ With mounting excitement which neither betrayed they moved over to the desk and peered intently at the blotter.
▪ I peered intently through my binoculars at the ships riding peacefully at anchor.
▪ When I looked across a minute later he was still there, peering intently at the coil and slowly turning it round.
■ NOUN
darkness
▪ Erik Hansen peered into the darkness outside his windshield.
▪ He unlocked the door and peered out into the darkness.
▪ I peered into the darkness and saw a little old woman sitting opposite me.
▪ Master Benjamin was still on the convent wall, peering into the darkness.
▪ The others peered out into the darkness for minutes before finally seeing the string of lights getting closer.
▪ Lefevre peered behind into the darkness.
▪ Ward put his face closer to the window and peered down into the darkness.
edge
▪ Sitting up, she peered over the edge of the hollow alongside Seb.
▪ One could not know his measureless glory: the unending string of faces peering over the edge.
▪ Cautiously Grant peered round the edge of the open door.
▪ She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor.
▪ I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I couldn't see him at all.
▪ But there are some silver linings peering over the edges of this dark cloud of history.
▪ Endill peered slowly over the edge of it.
face
▪ There were faces peering at him.
▪ One could not know his measureless glory: the unending string of faces peering over the edge.
▪ Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window.
▪ She lowered her face and peered.
▪ Anxious faces were peering at watches.
▪ They scrunch up their faces, peering into the haze.
▪ At the kerb the taxi's diesel engine idled noisily as a passenger's face peered uncertainly through the window.
▪ Ezra swayed below on the rolling deck, looking at the small gray face peering at him from far above.
gloom
▪ In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom, the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance.
▪ It was very easy to imagine eyes peering from the gloom, or strange beings creeping along the path behind them.
▪ Opening her eyes, she peered into the gloom.
▪ He strained his eyes peering into the gloom.
▪ He was peering into the gloom ahead.
shoulder
▪ Joey stood in the door laughing his head off and Noreen peered over his shoulder, her hands over her mouth.
▪ She peered over her shoulder at him.
▪ Pamela reads it with him, peering over his shoulder.
▪ Comrades bustled in and out, peering over his shoulder to offer suggestions as he polished sentences.
▪ Howard peers over the shoulders of the people in front of him, trying to see what's going on.
side
▪ Sweating, he peered round the side of the car at the house.
▪ The Colonel peered from side to side trying to locate the heckler.
▪ Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards.
▪ He peers deeply over the side and into the water flowing past the ship.
▪ Mr Popple peered over the side of the toilet, his right hand leaning on the toilet-seat.
▪ Loretta drove slowly, peering from side to side for a glimpse of the Red House.
top
▪ Broadman, who could read after a fashion, peered over the top of the volume.
▪ He opened his closet door and peered at the top shelves.
▪ Stanley peered over the top of his paper.
▪ She peered over the tops of the high box pews, almost expecting to find some one praying in one.
■ VERB
stand
▪ As he stood peering up at the blackened brickwork there was little emotion to be found upon his elfin face.
▪ I stood underneath it and peered up.
▪ Jinny found some nearer the top, in the open, where she could stand and peer down at the cottage.
try
▪ I tried to peer in but it was getting too dark to see properly.
▪ He shielded his eyes with his hands and tried to peer through the window beside him.
▪ Blake screwed up his eyes, trying to peer through the fog.
▪ General Shafter corrected, and the three officers, bouncing about as they tried to peer down through the clouds, laughed.
turn
▪ I had crawled into mine and was turning round peering into the dark where many people sat eating popcorn and candy.
▪ I slowed, turning to peer at the site with an eerie feeling of detachment.
▪ Glen turned pointedly and peered out of the far window.
▪ She turned and peered at him, squinting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Roger peered into the dark corridor to see what was making the noise.
▪ She adjusted her glasses and peered at the man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Having stopped the car, feeling pleasantly lost, he peered through the half-dark.
▪ I slowed, turning to peer at the site with an eerie feeling of detachment.
▪ Lok peered at the stick and the lump of bone and the small eyes in the bone things over the face.
▪ Mattie grunted abstractedly, totally engrossed in peering at the various plastic containers and bowls in the refrigerator.
▪ Two heads swivelled to peer at her, and she recognized the reporters from the pub.
▪ Watch any game in a crucial situation and you will see the catcher peering into his dugout before calling each pitch.
▪ Yanto crouched down and peered under the wagon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peer

Peer \Peer\ v. t. To make equal in rank. [R.]
--Heylin.

Peer

Peer \Peer\ v. t. To be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]

Peer

Peer \Peer\, n. [OE. per, OF. per, F. pair, fr. L. par equal. Cf. Apparel, Pair, Par, n., Umpire.]

  1. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

    In song he never had his peer.
    --Dryden.

    Shall they consort only with their peers?
    --I. Taylor.

  2. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

    He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
    --Spenser.

  3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

    A noble peer of mickle trust and power.
    --Milton.

    House of Peers, The Peers, the British House of Lords. See Parliament.

    Spiritual peers, the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.

Peer

Peer \Peer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peered; p. pr. & vb. n. Peering.] [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. para[^i]tre to appear, L. parere. Cf. Appear.]

  1. To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic]

    So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
    --Shak.

    See how his gorget peers above his gown!
    --B. Jonson.

  2. [Perh. a different word; cf. OE. piren, LG. piren. Cf. Pry to peep.] To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
    --Milton.

    Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.
    --Shak.

    As if through a dungeon grate he peered.
    --Coleridge.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peer

c.1300, "an equal in rank or status" (early 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French peir, Old French per (10c.), from Latin par "equal" (see par (n.)). Sense of "a noble" (late 14c.) is from Charlemagne's Twelve Peers in the old romances, who, like the Arthurian knights of the Round Table, originally were so called because all were equal. Sociological sense of "one of the same age group or social set" is from 1944. Peer review attested by 1970. Peer pressure is first recorded 1971.

peer

"to look closely," 1590s, variant of piren (late 14c.), with a long -i-, probably related to or from East Frisian piren "to look," of uncertain origin. Influenced in form and sense by Middle English peren (late 14c.), shortened form of aperen (see appear). Related: Peered; peering.

Wiktionary
peer

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. 2 to come in sight; to appear. Etymology 2

n. 1 Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else). 2 # Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else). 3 A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners. 4 A comrade; a companion; an associate. vb. 1 to make equal in rank. 2 (context Internet English) 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. Etymology 3

n. Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

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WordNet
peer

  1. n. a person who is of equal standing with another in a group [syn: equal, match, compeer]

  2. a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

peer

v. look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"

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Usage examples of "peer".

There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.

A warm and acrimonious debate was maintained by the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Wellington, and other opposition peers on the one hand, and Lord Melbourne and the lord chancellor on the other.

Peering out the window, Addle could only see the edge of the swing set, serrated by the moonlight.

The debate continued by adjournment up to Thursday the 28th of May, most of the peers being anxious to deliver their sentiments on this great subject.

Senor Archbishop Turpin, it is a great discredit to those of us called the Twelve Peers to do nothing more and allow the courtier knights victory in this tourney, when we, the knights who seek adventures, have won glory on the three previous days.

Gnaeus Clodius Afer, lifting his head and peering back in the direction from which they had deployed.

Clodius Afer, tilting his head to peer at the curving surface of the ceiling eighty feet above.

Without waiting for a reply, she went to Ager and peered at him closely.

Fortunately, elves fill their rooms with furniture and vases and flowers and birdcages, so we were well-concealed, although I had to peer through the leaves of a palm and Alake was eye-to-eye with a singing phurah bird.

The lanky slicer was peering through an access panel with his magnispecs flipped down, manipulating a micrograbber in each hand and muttering to himself in a high-pitched, staccato manner that sounded alarmingly like machine code.

The guests at the Albergo Monte Gazza peered at one another over dinner through a gradually deepening gloom, enlivened by occasional lurches towards complete darkness.

Here may be seen the Peer and the Prig, the Wise one and the Green one, the Pigeon and the Rook amalgamated together.

Earls and barons shall not be amerced except through their peers, and only in accordance with the degree of the offense.

Peers extend to each other would have included avoiding the introductions of anachronisms into a mansion famed for its authenticity.

Flicking the hair from her eyes and the water from both, she peered through the blurs the drops made and saw an Ancestral form on the bank.