What's the difference between peek and week?

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.

Week


Definition:

  • (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
  • (2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (4) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (5) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
  • (6) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (7) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
  • (8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (9) After 2 weeks, the native and heterotopic pituitaries were assayed for SP, TSH, PRL, and LH.
  • (10) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
  • (11) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
  • (12) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
  • (13) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (14) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (15) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (16) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
  • (17) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (18) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
  • (19) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (20) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.

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