(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."
Periscope
Definition:
(n.) A general or comprehensive view.
(n.) an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The video streaming application has been the star of Nuit debout: one man, Rémy Buisine , started non-stop filming of the scene with his smartphone and live broadcasting on Periscope .
(2) Ten games from the NFL’s regular season will be broadcast on Twitter, as well as in-game highlights and live pre-game interviews on its streaming platform, Periscope.
(3) APPS Periscope (Free) Twitter’s new live-streaming video app has a ton of hype, and it’s tempting to write it off as a novelty when you see endless broadcasts of cats, kids and parties you’re not invited to.
(4) Periscope seems tailor-made for the generation of online video stars that have emerged on YouTube, who’ll be able to use it for impromptu live broadcasts and Q&As with fans, for example.
(5) Secondary effects of wearing periscopes and prisms indicated a certain lack of specificity in the sensing of gain and bias errors: vertical shifts of V-A and A-V curves (resembling those seen with base-out prisms) often occurred with the laterally displacing periscopes, and gain changes (generally resembling those seen with laterally displacing periscopes) often occurred with the base-out prisms.
(6) July 18, 2016 In a Periscope stream after the segment, Ryan said that she was “shaken” by the conversation, which she called “just in-my-face racism”.
(7) Roberts, who is now senior research fellow for sea power and maritime studies at the Royal United Services Institute, said the appearance of a periscope off the western coast of Scotland, which triggered a Nato submarine hunt last month, was a sign of the latest such Russian foray.
(8) Periscope’s launch comes shortly after Twitter controversially blocked Meerkat from accessing its social graph – the means by which the app was helping people find others to watch based on who they were following on Twitter.
(9) Paul’s campaign team had agreed to an interview, which would be broadcast live on the smartphone app Periscope, that would last between six and eight minutes.
(10) As a periscope from the diencephalon, the vomeronasal system may monitor exogenous hormones, "pheromones".
(11) The eye being examined can see the optotypes in the focus of a lens or on the wall behind the examiner by means of a periscope system.
(12) Twitter’s pitch for its new app: “Periscope lets you broadcast live video to the world.
(13) Periscope mitigates this by saving and archiving your recording (if you choose).
(14) We have exciting momentum on live video on Periscope and on Twitter.” Adam Bain, Twitter’s chief operating officer, said that video now accounts for the majority of Twitter’s advertising revenue.
(15) Moore revealed rough details of the project, which he has been making “in secret” since 2009 , in his first Periscope broadcast.
(16) Addressing fans via her Periscope account , Montaño said: You can’t ever get back those moments, you can’t ever replace those feelings that I would have been able to experience at the time.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Monday, using live streaming app Periscope, the Guardian’s Paul Lewis broadcast from Baltimore where he observed widespread rioting.
(18) PSG suspend Serge Aurier for comments on Laurent Blanc and team-mates Read more Aurier had conducted a question and answer session on Periscope – effectively being interviewed by his friend Mamadou Doucouré, a former reserve player at Lens and Atlético Madrid, late on Saturday night – in which he appeared to describe Blanc as a “faggot”.
(19) Do the same on Periscope and you’re delivered the following stats on your performance: retention viewers time watched duration It’s hard to explain how strangely satisfying this makes it.
(20) He reached a peak of 130,000 people simultaneously connected to his feed on Twitter or on the Periscope app, more than were watching mainstream news TV channels at the same time.