Verb

(en verb)

To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.

* 2012 , Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories (ISBN 1573447978):

A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.

* 2012 , Michelle Monkou, If I Had You (ISBN 1459223284):

Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.

(computing) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

* 2006 , Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)

We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

Verb

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Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).

To expose, uncover.

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(chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

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(archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.

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*Shakespeare

*:Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover / The several caskets to this noble prince.

*Francis Bacon

*:Prosperity doth best discover' vice; but adversity doth best ' discover virtue.

(obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

*, Bk.V, ch.ix:

*:they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.

To find or learn something for the first time.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}

(obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

*C. J. Smith

*:The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

*1806 , Alexander Hunter, Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ , p.125:

*:The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.