What's the difference between court and peer?

Court


Definition:

  • (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
  • (n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
  • (n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
  • (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
  • (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
  • (n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
  • (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
  • (n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
  • (n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
  • (n.) The session of a judicial assembly.
  • (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
  • (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
  • (v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
  • (v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
  • (v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (3) Slager’s next court appearance is not until 21 August.
  • (4) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (5) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (7) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (8) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
  • (9) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (10) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
  • (11) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
  • (12) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
  • (13) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
  • (14) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (15) More likely is that the constitutional court would use its recently beefed-up powers to deal with separatists if they were to assume powers that the constitution does not allow them.
  • (16) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (17) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (18) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (19) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
  • (20) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.

Peer


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come in sight; to appear.
  • (v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
  • (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
  • (n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To make equal in rank.
  • (v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (2) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (3) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
  • (4) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
  • (5) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (6) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
  • (7) The DRG principle, however, is feasible and has important management benefits; it is recommended that locally determined DRG weightings be developed, and that other hospitals explore their use in peer review of resource management, costing and pricing.
  • (8) Level of care (I, accepted practice; II, may have managed differently; and III, would have managed differently) was assessed for each complication at M & M conference and by peer review of the medical record for occurrence screening.
  • (9) Data were collected during three conditions: baseline, modeling, and peer tutoring.
  • (10) All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well.
  • (11) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
  • (12) A college sample of 66 women and 34 men was assessed on both positive and negative affect using 4 measurement methods: self-report, peer report, daily report, and memory performance.
  • (13) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
  • (14) I agree with Sheryl's lean in advice around setting career goals (18 months and life-long) and also how to work with peers and those in more senior positions.
  • (15) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (16) These teenagers were classified as heavy drinkers; the males knew less about alcohol, and had different attitudes to its use than their peers.
  • (17) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
  • (18) Case abstract data are routinely collected by hospital abstracting services, peer review organizations, and some state agencies.
  • (19) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
  • (20) Asked what form the arrangements could take, the peer replied: "Wherever we think that there's something happening that is undesirable and we're looking very carefully at how to draw up those protections."