(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."
Squint
Definition:
(a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
(n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
(v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
(v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
(v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
(v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
(n.) The act or habit of squinting.
(n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
(n.) Same as Hagioscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squint was the most common diagnosis with the prevalence being 18.4 per thousand for the children in social classes I to III and 15.9 for the total series.
(2) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
(3) In this group refractive error, nasolacrimal duct block, and primary squint were most common, while in the non-heritable group various types of conjunctivitis, trauma, foreign bodies, blepharitis and nutritional diseases were most prevalent.
(4) The presence of +2.00 or more D of spherical hypermetropia in both eyes, or +1.00 or more D sphere or cylinder of anisometropia was significantly associated (P=0.0779%) with that child being identified 2+ years later as having either squint or amblyopia or both.
(5) The present squint angle was the only major parameter relevant for the preservation of PS and MS.
(6) Both the AO and the Siamese cats exhibited a convergent squint.
(7) All the cases of squint and amblyopia referred to both hospital and school clinics in one district during one calendar year have been reviewed in order to clarify when, where, and how these cases first present to the ophthalmologist.
(8) Clinical signs in mice were squinting and distended testes in males, and in rats, rapid respiration (all doses), squinting, and hunching.
(9) The most frequent indications are: Increased objective squint angle during near fixation, incomitant binocular movements in the horizontal plane, unstabile objective angles, nystagmus compensation (block-) syndrome, variation of Kestenbaum's nystagmusoperation.
(10) The most important squints to diagnose are the concomitant squints of childhood as they can lead to amblyopia, which is irreversible after the age of ten years.
(11) In all patients was found a very marked impairment of visual acuity or even blindness of the affected eye with most frequently squint and nystagmus.
(12) On the basis of our investigation we could not prove the process of emmetropisation during the growth of the eyes of squinting children in this age group.
(13) Anterior segment circulation was assessed in 35 adults one day after squint surgery by clinical observation and low-dose fluorescein iris angiography.
(14) There was no influence upon the angle of squint and the correspondence.
(15) In divergent squint, the fovea competes with the much weaker nasal hemifield.
(16) The authors study 202 strabismus cases and evaluate the strabismic epidemiology of Tunisia: 58% of squint children have amblyopia.
(17) The shortened test shows the reduction in contrast sensitivity as well as the original LDT in squint amblyopia multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis and cerebral tumours.
(18) Besides the odontogenic keratocysts, the Case 1 patient had basal cell nevus, prominent frontal process, and ocular hypertelorism; the Case 2 patient had prominent frontal process; the Case 3 patient had prominent frontal process, ocular hypertelorism, and squint.
(19) Leukokoria and squint were the most frequent first signs of the tumor.
(20) The results of a prospective study of 66 cases of squint among black Zaïrian people are presented.