His explanation only diminishes the irresistible excitement we feel while watching Tony Perkins peer at Janet Leigh in her shower.
Notice how he says it is Gore who rejects “openness” and “peer review.”
As I waited to speak to Manning, a cleaning woman poked her head out from one of the adjacent rooms to peer at me.
In fact, this leader is roughly a peer of those once-influential figures.
Detectives are then ranked by past performance and peer reviews, gaining or losing influence with each case.
And working men may keep the wall, and jostle prince and peer.
In the peer's gallery were the foremost members of the House of Lords.
His father was a peer of France, one of the old nobility, and a General of Engineers.
Blinky snorted and stamped over to the window, stooping to peer at the machine.
A peer, a minister, a stranger to the county,—to come all this way to consult him!
c.1300, "an equal in rank or status" (early 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French peir, Old French per (10c.), from Latin par "equal" (see par (n.)). Sense of "a noble" (late 14c.) is from Charlemagne's Twelve Peers in the old romances, who, like the Arthurian knights of the Round Table, originally were so called because all were equal. Sociological sense of "one of the same age group or social set" is from 1944. Peer review attested by 1970. Peer pressure is first recorded 1971.
"to look closely," 1590s, variant of piren (late 14c.), with a long -i-, probably related to or from East Frisian piren "to look," of uncertain origin. Influenced in form and sense by Middle English peren (late 14c.), shortened form of aperen (see appear). Related: Peered; peering.
