(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."
Unequal
Definition:
(a.) Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
(a.) Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
(a.) Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.
(a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.
(a.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data were analysed using statistical methods that yield continuous piecewise linear regression equations and allow subjects to have repeated measures which are unequally spaced and at different times for different subjects.
(2) When initial joint angles were unequal, joints moving from smaller initial angles reached their functional limits earlier and stopped first.
(3) A large proportion of allergen escaped rapidly from the ear, about 50% within 3 hr in the case of PCl, within 15 min for DNCB, the difference probably reflecting their unequal reaction constants.
(4) Even in Mondrian-like patterns resembling those used by Land and McCann (1971), equiluminant objects may appear to be of unequal brightness.
(5) Approximately 15% are multilobed but, unlike (-Mg) cells, contain lobes of unequal size with either zero, one, or several nuclei present in each.
(6) We propose that the deletion of the rRNA operon occurred in the ilv-leu gene cluster of the B. subtilis genome as a result of unequal recombination between redundant sequences.
(7) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
(8) We deduce that in ubiquitin genes, concerted evolution involves both unequal crossover and gene conversion, and that the average time since two repeated units within the polyubiquitin locus most recently shared a common ancestor is approximately 38 million years (Myr) in mammals, but perhaps only 11 Myr in Drosophila.
(9) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
(10) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(11) These results show that there is an unequal expression of the two non-allelic genes controlling insulin biosynthesis in foetal and adult rat pancreas.
(12) Nonheterogeneity of histamine effect can be presumably explained by a strong representation of various types of receptors to which this biogenic amine is bound (H1, H2, H3) in the organs and tissues, their unequal location on the pre- and postsynaptic membrane, the differences in their physiological functions.
(13) The finding indicates that supplier induced demand is a factor to consider in addition to supplier induced utilization when one tries to explain how supplier inducement may affect the unequal distribution of dentists.
(14) Although the role of each form is unknown, it is possible that variable or joining-gene segment selection events or functional differences account for their unequal usage.
(15) For maximum responses less than about 5 mV in cones, the length constant of exponential decay, lambda, varied from less than 10 mum to greater than 35 mum, and the values obtained in opposite directions were often unequal.
(16) Possible explanations for the failure to obtain 100% concordance are methodologic shortcomings, intercell variations in chromosome contraction, and unequal mitotic crossing over.
(17) The reason black people could not get out of New Orleans was not because they were separate but because they were unequal - the wealthier ones left.
(18) Unequal or absent pulses were found in three patients.
(19) In addition, these genes form highly complicated gene families that have evolved through gene conversion and unequal crossing-over.
(20) In Rec+ haploids, as in diploids, intrachromosomal recombination in the ribosomal DNA was detected in 2 to 6% of meiotic divisions, and most events were unequal reciprocal sister chromatid exchange (SCE).