Peer vs Explore - What's the difference?
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To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
to come in sight; to appear.
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
* Dryden
* Isaac Taylor
# Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
* Milton
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
* Spenser
to make equal in rank.
(Internet) 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.
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(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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Peer is a related term of explore.
As a noun peer
is .As a verb explore is
.peer
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(wikipedia peer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
- as if through a dungeon grate he peered
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
- He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
- So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
- See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In song he never had his peer .
- Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
- a peer of the realm
- a noble peer of mickle trust and power
- He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Verb
(en verb)- (Heylin)
Derived terms
* peer-to-peerEtymology 3
Anagrams
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Verb
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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.