What's the difference between peek and peen?

Peek


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (2) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
  • (3) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
  • (4) Ewen takes a peek at the Republican challenger's strategy: He will list damning statistics showing the extent to which Americans have become dependent on the federal government, from food stamps to unemployment benefits.
  • (5) Sure, it's bad to peek at your data but data peeking alone probably isn't going to produce nine different false positives.
  • (6) Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.” The news broke on Twitter with Moore sharing the following tweet on Monday: Michael Moore (@MMFlint) Hey NYC- Who wants a peek @ what I've been up 2?
  • (7) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (8) Journalists who have never even peeked into the IPCC report are now outraged that one wrong number appears on page 493 of Volume 2.
  • (9) When Dunham’s own memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” , was published this autumn, it was Gould who defended her (on Salon.com ) from rabid right-wing critics who characterised Dunham as a child molester for confessing to peeking at her sister’s vagina when she was seven.
  • (10) A peek at the source code of the now-blank site contains a hint of a future acquisition, with an empty space labelled “put announce for mtgox acq here”.
  • (11) Shaltai-Boltai and the missing jigsaw pieces Alexander said he was in Asia at the time, but travelled to Estonia within the past week, having first paid a trusted contact to peek into Interpol’s systems and check Russia had not yet put him on the wanted list.
  • (12) What in fact happened, Edward Jr said in the same letter, was that “as I sat on my bed, tears of rage flowing, remembering my childhood my anger kept building and building, and I went to my car, got the 9mm, and walked to his room, peeked in, and he was asleep.
  • (13) But a peek behind its algorithmic curtains suggests what it does know might be wrong.
  • (14) We’ll be giving you a peek behind the curtain of what makes the news and take stock of what’s gone on locally, nationally and globally.
  • (15) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
  • (16) Traditionally Apple releases a sneak peek into its new software for both its Mac computers and its iPhone and iPad at WWDC each year.
  • (17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
  • (18) You can see evidence of these new lands on the Delta's fringes; mile upon mile of agri-business-owned fields peeking out behind the advertising billboards of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road.
  • (19) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
  • (20) Game of Throne fans are counting the days until the start of series four and to help the wait go faster, we've got a 15-minute sneak peek.

Peen


Definition:

  • (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
  • (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
  • (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This could be shown in the shot peened plates as well as in the polished plates.
  • (2) A 1.6-kilobase internal fragment contains an open reading frame of 927 bases coding for an immunoreactive peptide of 34,349 daltons, which corresponds in size with an observed cytoplasmic form of fimbrial peptide (P. M. Fives-Taylor, F. L. Macrina, T. J. Pritchard, and S. J. Peene, Infect.
  • (3) This effect was especially marked after a shot-peening of alloys and a very high polishing of resin.
  • (4) Shot peening of surgical implants thus means an improvement in quality.
  • (5) The hardening achieved by shot peening is not reduced by bending.
  • (6) Shot peening can increase the fatigue strength of commercially available surgical plates made of 1.4435 alloy by 40% even in a corrosive environment.
  • (7) Up to now we implanted 37 shot peened osteosynthesis plates for fixation of intertrochanteric osteotomies.
  • (8) Our investigations show that residual stresses resulting from shot peening are reduced by additional bending of the plates.
  • (9) Metallurgic specimens showed not so many pittings at the shot peened plates in the region of the screw hole as were seen at the polished plates after the same period of implantation.
  • (10) The year before the Meyer-Lindenberg study was published, the existence of that link had been established still more firmly by a group of Dutch researchers led by Dr Jaap Peen.
  • (11) Shot peening is a cold-working process to increase the fatigue life of osteosynthesis plates.

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