peer
noun
- person of the same social standing
- noble person
verb
- connect with others of the same type
- to look searchingly
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /piː.ə/ / /pi.ɚ/ / /pɪə̯/ / /pɪɹ/
noun
Etymology: pee + -er
- Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
“As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?).”
“SOunds^([sic]) like you've already broken him quite well, if he's peeing when disciplined. Pretty sad. He's not a dog, not that treating a dog like this is any better either. You've turned your child into a submissive peer.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
- To make equal in rank.
“Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.”
- To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.