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.

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Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.