(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."
Pere
Definition:
(n.) A peer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(2) A state memorial event will be held at the Knesset on Monday morning , addressed by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, Peres and Sharon's sons Gilad and Omri.
(3) Statements by Kerry, Israeli president Shimon Peres and Arab League representatives on Wednesday and Thursday indicated that significant progress had been made.
(4) But the heart of the visit will be an address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and meetings with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and President Shimon Peres.
(5) Israel's outgoing president, Shimon Peres, and his successor, Reuven Rivlin, promised in a joint editorial published in Yedioth Ahronoth, the country's best-selling newspaper, on Monday that there would be no cover-up in the investigation of Abu Khdeir's death.
(6) His office said Peres received a pacemaker last week.
(7) In 1986, while serving as prime minister and foreign minister, Peres held negotiations that led to the London agreement, the ultimately futile peace accord that included Israeli-Jordanian cooperation in administrating the West Bank.
(8) He especially welcomed Peres, reappointed Labour leader after Barak's resignation.
(9) Peres was discharged from hospital last week after suffering a heart attack.
(10) Shimon Peres, president of Israel, praised Mandela as "a builder of bridges of peace and dialogue who paid a heavy personal price for his struggle in the years he spent in prison and fighting for his people".
(11) His many detractors said that Peres simply had no choice.
(12) A spokesman said: “The president will participate in the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.
(13) Yet many Palestinians blamed Peres for saddling them with inferior terms in the Paris economic deal of 1994.
(14) The outpouring of support displayed the domestic political capital Erdogan gained from his performance at the Swiss resort, where he told Peres: "When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill."
(15) Though he conceded that Arab leaders saw his creation, Israel’s secret Dimona plant in the Negev Desert, as “a worrisome fuzzy deterrent”, Peres the politician enjoyed creating such deliberate ambiguities.
(16) Support for Peres evaporated when successive bomb attacks killed dozens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and talks with Syria came to naught.
(17) But by feting two cynical politicians who have sought to harness religious feelings for their own agendas, as Abbas is doing now with the furore over the Jerusalem mosques and Peres did nearly 40 years ago – when, as defence minister, he authorised the first settlements in the West Bank, in the hope the settlers would support him against his rival Yitzhak Rabin – the pope helped perpetuate the myth.
(18) Releasing the new images of the potential witness, DCI Chris Le Pere, who is in charge of the investigation, said: “We are appealing for this man to come forward so we can speak to him to establish if he can assist with our inquiries, or if we can eliminate this strand of the investigation.
(19) A 1-0 Costa Rica success resonates as much to this day with Scotland’s followers as Archie Gemmill’s 1978 wonder-goal against Holland or David Narey’s spectacular toe-poke past Brazil’s Waldir Peres four years later in Spain.
(20) By standing down, he avoided splitting the rightist vote and thus allowed Netanyahu to narrowly beat the prime minister Peres.