(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.
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."