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peer

/peer/US // pɪər //UK // (pɪə) //

同龄人,同行,同级别的,同伴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
    • : a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status.
    • : something of equal worth or quality: a sky-scraper without peer.
    • : a nobleman.
    • : a member of any of the five degrees of the nobility in Great Britain and Ireland.
    • : Archaic. a companion.

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Examples

  • While I was busy scoffing at duck-faced selfies, my peers were busy figuring out how to change the world.

  • In fact, India—far more than its peers—is now getting the worst of both worlds.

  • Scientists want to peer into the gassy atmosphere of Jupiter, or explore the cold surface of Pluto.

  • One way we can reject this oppressive mindset is by raising it with our peers.

  • Jackson won the fiver and a career that drew on a realpolitik only hinted at by her more successful peers Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin.

  • His explanation only diminishes the irresistible excitement we feel while watching Tony Perkins peer at Janet Leigh in her shower.

  • Peer-to-peer car rental RelayRides offers vehicles conveniently parked in airport lots.

  • Over 900 peer-reviewed scientific articles have adduced evidence that anthropogenic climate change is real.

  • At the summit, Xi had been front and center, seemingly without peer.

  • Notice how he says it is Gore who rejects “openness” and “peer review.”

  • To quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'

  • The military court appointed to try him declared itself unable to try a peer of France.

  • In this gingerly way did the deputies lift the curtain and peer down the road to revolution.

  • It goes no further than the denunciation of the peer, and the raising of a subscription (generally inadequate) for the sufferers.

  • There must be something wrong with a social system which permits one idle peer to ruin hundreds of industrious producers.