Superior vs Peer - What's the difference?
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Higher in quality.
Higher in rank.
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, title= More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
Located above.
# (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
# (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
# (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
# (typography) Printed in superscript.
Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .
* Spectator
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.
As nouns the difference between superior and peer
is that superior is a person of higher rank or quality while peer is somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).As an adjective superior
is higher in quality.As a verb peer is
to look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.superior
English
Alternative forms
* superiour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
- A genus is superior to a species.
- the superior''' jaw; the '''superior part of an image
- a superior figure or letter
- There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
Usage notes
* Superior and inferior are generally followed by to; than is sometimes used mistakenly.Antonyms
* (l)Coordinate terms
*Derived terms
* superiornessExternal links
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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)