Peer vs Peruse - What's the difference?

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Peer is a related term of peruse.

As nouns the difference between peer and peruse

is that peer is while peruse is an examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.

As a verb peruse is

to examine or consider with care.

peer

English

(wikipedia peer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

* Shakespeare

peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads

* Coleridge

as if through a dungeon grate he peered

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

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.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6

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.

to come in sight; to appear.

* Shakespeare

So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

* Ben Jonson

See how his gorget peers above his gown!

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).

* Dryden

In song he never had his peer .

* Isaac Taylor

Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?

# 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.

a peer of the realm

* Milton

a noble peer of mickle trust and power

A comrade; a companion; an associate.

* Spenser

He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

Verb

(en verb)

to make equal in rank.

(Heylin)

(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.

Derived terms

* peer-to-peer

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

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Anagrams

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peruse

English

Noun

(en noun)

An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.

* 2008 , Dave Robson, " Hi-tea, low cost!", Evening Gazette online, September 12,

A peruse of the website looked promising

Verb

(perus)

To examine or consider with care.

* {{quote-book, 1847,

, passage=Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.}}

To read completely.

* {{quote-book, 1887,

, passage=We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia

(informal) To look over casually; to skim.

* {{quote-book, 2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, page=35 citation

, passage=Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge. }}

* {{quote-book, 2005, , Acid Alex, page=98 citation

, passage=She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.}}

(regional) To go from place to place; to wander.

* {{quote-book, 1957, , The Old Man And The Boy, page=55 citation

, passage=I loved to straggle off in the mornings

Usage notes

* The sense of "skimming" is proscribed by some authorities on usage, including the Oxford American Dictionary''. The shift, however, is not dissimilar to that found in (scan). The ''Oxford English Dictionary further notes that the word was used as a general synonym for (read) as far back as the 16th century.

Derived terms

* perusable * perusal * peruser

Anagrams

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