Peered vs Squinted - What's the difference?
peered | squinted |
(peer)
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.
(squint)
(lb) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) To look or glance sideways.
(lb) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(lb) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
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An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
(senseid)A quick or sideways glance.
A short look.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A hagioscope.
(radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
As verbs the difference between peered and squinted
is that peered is past tense of peer while squinted is past tense of squint.peered
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*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.
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(en verb)- (Heylin)
Derived terms
* peer-to-peerEtymology 3
Anagrams
* ----squinted
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(head)squint
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(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint .
- --And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
- --Give us a squint at her, says I.