peer' : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: peer'	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for peer'
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peer \Peer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peering}.] [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. para[8c]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peer \Peer\ v. t. To make equal in rank. [R.] --Heylin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peer \Peer\ v. t. To be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
peer A unit of communications hardware or software that is on the same {protocol layer} of a network as another. A common way of viewing a communications link is as two {protocol stack}s, which are actually connected only at the very lowest (physical) layer, but can be regarded as being connected at each higher layer by virtue of the services provided by the lower layers. Peer-to-peer communication refers to these real or virtual connections between corresponding systems in each layer. To give a simple example, when two people talk to each other, the lowest layer is the physical layer which concerns the sound pressure waves travelling from mouth to ear (so mouths and ears are peers) the next layer might be the speech and hearing centres in the people's brains and the top layer their cerebellums or minds. Although, barring telepathy, nothing passes directly between the two minds, there is a peer-to-peer communication between them.