peer
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for somethingTo look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
» Tom carefully peered inside the box.
Meaning
4 senses(intransitive)To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
spähen, illern, kieken
вгля́дыватьсяvgljádyvatʹsja, вгляде́тьсяvgljadétʹsja, высма́триватьvysmátrivatʹ
look searchingly
To make equal in rank.
(Internet)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.
(intransitive, obsolete)To come in sight; to appear.
Examples
133 sentencesTom carefully peered inside the box.
The boy peered into the room.
I blame this problem on peer pressure.
You need to learn to resist peer pressure.
deDu mußt lernen, dich Gruppenzwang zu widersetzen. — Waldelfe
Children need to be taught to resist peer pressure.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳranFrom Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear.
From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
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Forms
peers, peering, peered, peeredWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle