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Polyetheretherketone vs Peek - What's the difference?

polyetheretherketone | peek |

As a noun polyetheretherketone

is a colorless organic polymer thermoplastic used in engineering applications.

As a verb peek is

to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep or peek can be .

polyetheretherketone

English

Noun

(-)
  • A colorless organic polymer thermoplastic used in engineering applications.
  • Synonyms

    * PEEK (abbreviation)

    peek

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) *, probably a fusion of peep and keek.

    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.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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