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Meaning peer meaning

What does peer mean?
Definitions in simple English

peer

A peer is someone of the same level as you. I have peers in school that often help me when I need their help.

peer

When you peer at something, you look at it with difficulty and concentration. Usually a small thing or a small text

peer

look searchingly We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around (= equal) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

Synonyms peer synonyms

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Topics peer topics

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  • What words refer to a person belonging to the same class as you?

Conjugation peer conjugation

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peer · verb

Examples peer examples

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Simple sentences

Don't give in to peer pressure.
The king created him a peer.
This article is not peer-reviewed.

Movie subtitles

As men of science, we should be curious. and bold enough to peer beyond it. into the many wonders it conceals.
You'll probably recognize him when you peer very closely.
Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, Duke of Chalfont, you, as a peer of England, are indicted for murder.
In combat, you have no peer.
Never peer through windows, on matters that don't concern you.
Masamichi Taira is created a peer of the Junior Grade of the Fifth Rank.
I peer over to my left, and what do I see?
The man tries to peer through the entrance.
There are, as of now, 655 Academy members in your peer group that'll be casting a vote for Best Actress.
Lord John McCartney - Millionaire Irish peer.
Isaburo's a swordsman without peer.
Tomorrow I shall hand you over to Osman Ferradji, Grand Master of the King's harem. He has no peer in the taming of women.
Sandy, you must try not to peer at people.
A room with a lock and something over the windows so they can't peer in at him.
Do I peer into the lives of my subjects. and dictate to them whom they shall love?
Peer of England, Earl of Scotland.
They are majestic creatures. with small coronetted heads that peer very proudly from their tiny castles.
De Maynes is the ultimate swordsman. No rival, no peer.
Naturally. He's a peer of the realm.
Goobye Peer.
My Peer Gynt in London.
You keep me in this box all week, and then allow me to peer out for only half an hour before closing me up again.
Lord John McCartney, millionaire, Irish peer, filthy rich, of course.
When you climb a ladder the crew will stop to peer underyour dress.
They expect us with the car. at the Limehouse peer.
Have a peer through that.
A peer scolded for stealing some matches.
And Hugo, peer of France and all that.
I never thought I would live to see the day when a peer of the realm, entrusts to us, a case of valuables.
Visitors can walk through a Skylab, and peer at the Apollo-Soyuz link-up of American and Soviet spaceships.
We won't know the truth until we peer into the coffin.
The world might peer at those drawings. and ask what conspiracy of inheritance. did Mr. Neville have for you.
Upstairs, with Peer Gynt.
Oh, no, I'm not a peer.
Cappie won't mind. She has this peer-group thing.
As I'm sure you're aware, his reputation in this field is without peer, and Dr. Meinheimer will present his recommendations to the Annual National Press Club Dinner this Tuesday evening.
Do I fail to understand him because I can't peer into his mind?
He was a Labor Peer.
The daughter of a Labor Peer, could she stand by and watch as government funds were used to support the military junta? Of course not!

News and current affairs

Similarly, membership of bodies that conduct peer review of scientific proposals - a process that is fundamental to scientific progress - surely ought to be free of all barriers to entry that are unrelated to professional qualifications.
This is why deciding which research projects to support has always been a matter for objective peer review, not politicians.
Indeed, companies often have an interest in going beyond minimum legal requirements: peer respect and a good reputation as an employer are marketable assets.
On the contrary, the bulk of peer-reviewed economic evidence indicates that, up to around 2050-2070, the net global economic impact of rising temperatures is likely to be positive.
The Stern Review was produced by bureaucrats and never subjected to peer review.
Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the section of the IPCC report that contained the Himalayan error, admitted that he and his colleagues knew that the dramatic glacier prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed science.
Open coordination entails the definition of common goals at the EU level, voluntary compliance by the member states, and peer review of results within the European Council.
One of the most important lessons of the Lisbon Agenda is that the so-called Open Method of Coordination - a harmless peer-review procedure without repercussions for non-performance - is clearly the wrong approach to kick-starting national-level reforms.
And its peer review mechanism is prodding individual countries to strengthen their regulatory institutions.
Zimbabwe's ongoing economic decline under the misrule of President Robert Mugabe has raised doubts about NEPAD's key innovation, its self-monitoring instrument, the African Peer Review Mechanism.
For, if Mugabe can be let off the hook, will NEPAD's peer review process ever work?
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Peer Review have all documented, with more or less evidence and precision, a proliferation of abuses and an absence of accountability for them.
Though Bernanke may be the best in his peer group, the fact is that the economic crisis decisively proved him and his peers to have been wrong.
From South Africa to Chile to Eastern Europe, a more general problem arises whenever governments begin to peer into the past of defeated dictatorships.
Nature had to contend with a libel suit for pointing out that a physics journal had published many articles by its editor, and that these articles had not been subjected to peer review.
But the Commission now proposes to put the emphasis entirely on peer pressure - naming and shaming offenders.
Peer-to-peer technologies make filtering more difficult, because they put nearly any consumer of information into the process of transmitting it.
Every peer-reviewed study has shown that this is not because of rising temperatures, but because more people live in harm's way.
Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck signaled that he expected the European Commission to apply some sanctions to Germany: the credibility of the pact would, he said, be at stake if no action were taken.
More problematic, the peer-review procedures that have been introduced so far will do little, if anything, to resolve the problem.
Peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding already represent new ways of matching borrowers with investors.
It is limited by professional values that are inculcated throughout doctors' training, and which are bolstered by a quiet form of peer review.
No perfect substitutes for the market in the area of scientific discovery exist, but a good surrogate, which enables scientists to compete effectively, is the system of peer review, i.e., the anonymous evaluation of research by scientific colleagues.
The use of anonymous peer review to assess proposals and allocate financial support for scientific research is increasingly achieving recognition around the world.

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