peer | Lernwerd

Forms

1.To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
- 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.
- 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.
2.To make equal in rank.
- Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.
3.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.

1.A look; a glance.
2.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?
3.Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
4.A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

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Etymology tree

Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan

Old English *pȳran

Middle English peren

English peer