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Peer vs Xeer - What's the difference?

peer | xeer |

As nouns the difference between peer and xeer

is that peer is while xeer is the traditional legal system of somalia, believed to predate islam, in which elders serve as mediators and people are responsible for the actions of their families.

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
    Related terms
    * peer assessment * peer review, peer reviewed * peer pressure * peerless * the Peers

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
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    • Anagrams

    * ----

    xeer

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia xeer)
  • The traditional legal system of Somalia, believed to predate Islam, in which elders serve as mediators and people are responsible for the actions of their families.
  • * 1977 , David D Laitin, Politics, language, and thought: the Somali experience?
    • It arranges for settlement of collective debts, discusses xeer dealings with central authorities, maintains the group wells, and protects grazing areas.
  • * 2005 , Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus, Shattering tradition: custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean
    • In rural areas, there is still confusion between xeer and shari'a.
  • * 2007 , Lars Buur, Helene Maria Kyed, State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • The key feature of the xeer is its common law character...