noun
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A look; a glance.
verb
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To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
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To come in sight; to appear.
noun
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Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
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Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
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A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
example
a peer of the realm
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A comrade; a companion; an associate.
verb
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To make equal in rank.
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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
definition
Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
Examples of peers in a Sentence
The beekeeper opens the lower part of the hive and peers in.
In 1901 he was made a member of the Austrian house of peers.
Both awards are distinctions among peers and fans.
Many of his peers considered him a harmless lunatic.
The parties then held hustings which aimed to gain votes from their peers in a following election.
Children with visual impairment often read at a much slower pace than fully sighted peers.
The EU is no longer a cozy club of politicians who can forgive their peers for the odd lapse.
If these are not consistent, kids become confused and may turn to peers or negative role models for clarification, which could lead to deviant behavior.
Children at this stage can be easily discouraged about creating art if they are overly criticized, teased by their peers, or become frustrated with art media or problems expressing what they see in their minds.
They derive from the chronic passion of apprentice mages and the good will of their peers.
Young people have a tendency to be intolerant of difference and often mock their peers who are clever or hard working.
In addition, presentations are formally assessed by peers with tutor moderation in Varieties, and by the tutor in Specials.
Despite the hot weather, Mike Peers found the bream and tench particularly obliging when he fished peg 68 on the island bank.
How do they cope when peers express strong views diametrically opposed to their own?
The solution, which the remaining hereditary peers were there to help seek, is no longer available.
Students with disabilities are being included in classes with their non-disabled peers in larger numbers.
Braille readers vary in ability even more than their sighted peers.
The home literacy experiences of preschoolers who use augmentative communication systems and of their nondisabled peers.
No longer will we have old Labor life peers kicking over the traces and rediscovering the radicalism and independence of their youth.
Among his peers, he stood out for his intellectual agility and a calm self-assurance in the very midst of animated class discussions.
At each key stage the individual receives recognition from peers and gains a sense of achievement and enhanced self-esteem.
Somewhat detached from his peers, in an almost stereotypical fashion.
There can be social stigma also from their peers.
Education of Young People in Public Care - Overview Background Children and young people in public care historically seriously underachieve compared with their peers.
Consumers now trust their peers more than they trust advertisers, so viral is becoming more and more important.
It should be noticed that trial by one's peers, as understood in Magna Carta, is not confined to the nobility; in every class of society an accused man is punished in accordance with the verdict of his peers, or equals.
In England "presentation at court" is the privilege of no particular class as such; and the wives of ministers of the class in strictness takes in only the peers personally; at the outside it cannot be stretched beyond those of their children and grandchildren who bear the courtesy titles of lord and lady.
Also, in the 15th century, it gradually became the custom to appoint a steward pro hac vice to preside at the trial, or at the proceedings upon the attainder of a peer in parliament; and later, to preside over a court, called the court of the, lord high steward, for the trial of peers when parliament was not sitting.
In Danby's case a commission under the great seal issued in the common form adopted for the court of the steward; this was recalled, and the rule agreed to by a joint committee of both houses that a steward for trials of peers upon impeachments was unnecessary.
The preference given to the steward's court was largely due to the practice, founded upon the Southampton case, of summoning only a few peers selected by the steward, a practice which made it easy for the king to secure a conviction.
For example, it was ruled by Lord Chancellor Jeffreys, as steward at the trial of Lord Delamere, that, in trials of peers which take place during the recess of parliament in the steward's court, the steward is the judge of the court, the court is held before him, his warrant convenes the prisoner to the bar, his,summons convenes the peers for the trial, and he to determine by his sole authority all questions of law that arise in the course of the trial, but that he is to give no vote upon the issue of guilty or not guilty; during a session of parliament, on the contrary, all the peers are both triers and judges, and the steward is only as chairman of the court and gives his vote together with the other lords.
British dukes rank next to princes and princesses of the blood royal, the two archbishops of Canterbury and York, the lord Chancellor, &c., but beyond this precedence they have no special privileges which are not shared by peers of lower rank (see Peerage).
Playing the part of the demagogue, and exaggerating all his nephews petulant acts and sayings, he declared the constitution in danger, and took arms at the head of a party of peers, the earls of Warwick, Arundel and Nottingham, and Henry, earl of Derby, the son of John of The Gaunt, who called themselves the lords appellant, lords because they were ready to appeal Richards appel- councillors of treason.
She linked my earliest thoughts with nature, and made me feel that "birds and flowers and I were happy peers."
Doctors were effective and consistent in assessing their peers, they were highly consistent when assessing the 4th quartile of performance.
Was the testing to provide the final ammunition to rationalize why Herb no longer belonged with his ' typical ' peers?
Brave servicemen should an actor dressed their nfl peers the news seems.
He slinks out from the shadow of the shed, Peers down, tail twitching, readying every claw.
But their slowed pace gave her time to study her peers closer.
But by 11, she has shown, trilingual children are doing better at school than their monolingual peers.
Although he makes much more money than his peers, he does his best to avoid acting pretentious.
At the end of the year, the class decided to pass out awards to recognize their peers' superlative talents and efforts.
Without the benefit of rich and famous parents, it's likely that your child would be relentlessly teased by his/her peers if you followed Shannyn Sossamon's lead.
If you see your child struggling to keep up with pre-school peers, skill assessments are available to help parents determine if professional help is needed or if there are specific ways to encourage development in their child.
Additionally, some children may be taller or heavier than their peers, graduating them out of some models of car seats faster.
Most trends fluctuate because of emotions and attitudes, but consumers can be influenced by peers, third-party reviews, and celebrities.
Another influence is your own peers and friends.
Most of the anti-clay litter campaigns are being echoed by concerned pet owners who have embraced the anecdotal evidence of their peers.
This resource allows attorneys to rate their peers.
In addition to loving reassurance and attention from both parents, youngsters this age respond well to activities with peers and play dates that promote a feeling of normalcy.