peer的意思|peer的解释-里氏词典

peer [piә]

n. 同等的人, 匹敌, 贵族

vi. 凝视, 窥视, 费力地看, 隐现

vt. 与...同等, 封为贵族

peer

[ noun ]

a person who is of equal standing with another in a group

<noun.person>

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

<noun.person>

[ verb ]

look searchingly

<verb.perception>

We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around

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\, 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.

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

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

For those of us who are not, it allows us to peer into the perverse minds of dog lovers.
Trees and Temple roofs peer over the great rockery or 'false mountain' of the Lion Grove Garden, a calligraphic rock face as active as anything of Mark Tobey.
Mr. Joyce hunches over the fish scanner, while crewmen peer over the side for the silvery glint of herring.
Magellan's mission is to map up to 90 percent of Venus' surface using radar to peer through the planet's thick clouds, which prevent the use of optical cameras.
The review of the Dallas bank by an outside "peer review team" of government examiners indicated that senior federal S&L regulators knew losses were deliberately concealed by the thrifts with the approval of local examiners.
The last time that the US discount rate was this low, Chuck McKinley had just beaten Fred Stolle at Wimbledon, the Profumo affair was in full swing and Viscount Stansgate became the first peer to renounce his title.
In turn, the women's groups provide a forum for peer pressure to promote family planning.
The 75-year-old peer fell as he stepped down from a bench beside his lawyer's desk and suffered a graze on the head and a bloody nose.
At Denver-based Adolph Coors Co., for instance, peer boards continually reinstated employees who had been fired for violating company policy prohibiting sleeping on the job.
A group in Santa Barbara, Calif., has spurred anti-drug peer pressure among the city's youth, he said.
Under the proposed rule changes, accounting firms would have the option of having the peer review conducted through an existing peer review organization, such as the institute's program, or having the review supervised by the SEC.
Under the proposed rule changes, accounting firms would have the option of having the peer review conducted through an existing peer review organization, such as the institute's program, or having the review supervised by the SEC.
Consider Fredric Jameson, who, Mr. Jacoby tells us, is the only American Marxist today who may be a peer to contemporary European Marxist theorists.
There's peer pressure, too: Nucor employees work in teams, and if one person is absent or refuses to work for any reason, the entire group can be penalized.
He played for 14 hours, through the night. A small crowd gathered, at a respectful distance, to peer over the rope.
Tellingly, TTAPS have repeatedly refused to release the "peer review" transcript to which they refer to both the press and their colleagues.
He's absolutely without peer," he says, adding with a chuckle that Trudeau is also a mysterious fellow who in his youth liked to drive around Montreal on a motorcycle wearing a German helmet.
Lady Gaitskell was made a life peer in 1963 and was known in the House of Lords as a champion of human rights, reform of the law on homosexuality, and aid to developing countries.
Botts said the committee completed its work and passed peer review, and a September 1985 publication date was scheduled.
There may have been peer pressure." More French Jews have sought to emigrate to Israel in the week since vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery in southern France than in the more than four-month period preceding the incident, the Jewish Agency said.
The NEA also rejected funding for John Fleck, an underground artist of sorts, who had been recommended for an NEA grant by an enthusiastic peer panel.
That was the case for about 3 percent of the Medicare admissions selected randomly and reviewed by peer review organizations in 1989, the report said.
"It will depend on peer pressure," one primary market dealer said.
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary are proceeding much more gently, by comparison dipping a toe into the cold waters of capitalism as they peer through the dust and smoke of their revolutions.
Most significantly, banks may end the HLT designation on a case-by-case basis for borrowers that "adequately service debt and clearly demonstrate superior cash flow, relative to their respective industry or peer groups."
"The problem now is that there isn't peer review, and journalists see their responsibilities differently.
They peer admiringly into an empty right hand drive Celica.
He despairs of securing any improvement while Michael Howard remains home secretary. Indeed, the normally restrained peer has dubbed Howard 'the prince of darkness'.
While Magellan orbits the planet, its advanced radar will peer through the constant clouds and map the surface.
'H'm,' he replied, continuing to peer at his screen. What prompted my query was Diane Summers's report in last Thursday's FT on research by the Cedar International consultancy into the way holidays affect productivity.

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