What's the difference between peer and see?

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."

See


Definition:

  • (n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
  • (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
  • (v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.
  • (v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
  • (v. t.) To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
  • (v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
  • (v. i.) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
  • (v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.
  • (v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
  • (2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (5) My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for two years.
  • (6) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (8) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (9) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
  • (10) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (11) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (12) If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can.
  • (13) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (14) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (15) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
  • (16) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
  • (17) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
  • (18) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
  • (19) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (20) We conclude by looking at several specific models and seeing how the results relate to previous work.

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