peer

IPA: pˈɪr

A look; a glance.
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
(intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
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.

Examples of "peer" in Sentences

The science motor is the peer recognition.
She was looking for her peer in the school.
The peers are the most wealthy and powerful.
The article breezed it after the peer review.
Screech is seen as the geek of his peer group.
But they also succumb to the peer pressure in the end.
Again, I apologize for the irresponsibility of my peers.
Are you saying the journal's peer review process is kaput
The peer review has to be with an aim to shredding the papers.
The term peer-review refers to two confusingly related processes.
Too often, she says, the phrase "peer pressure" is used negatively.
And we produce what I call peer production, governors, and property.
Against the encroachments of the house of peers he was an inflexible champion.
For years the term peer-to-peer has been a synonym for piracy to most of the mainstream public.
In addition, there is a well-known, what we call a peer review process involving the two weapons design laboratories.
The following essay describes the emergence, or expansion, of a specific type of relational dynamic, which I call peer to peer.
I'm using the term peer-review in an inaccurate way; I refer not just to moderation in journals, but the informal network used to decide what's worth examining and what's not.
This is based on the notion that mothers and fathers have a great deal of information to share with each other about raising kids in a twenty-first century worlda concept Ive been proposing since 1982, which I call peer groups for parents.