Witness vs Peer - What's the difference?
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Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
* Shakespeare
One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
* Shakespeare
* R. Hall
Someone called to give evidence in a court.
Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52
To furnish proof of, to show.
* 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7
To take as evidence.
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To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
* R. Hall
* Marshall
To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
* 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842
To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
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.
Witness is a related term of peer.
As nouns the difference between witness and peer
is that witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony while peer is .As a verb witness
is to furnish proof of, to show.witness
English
Noun
(es)- She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.
- May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
- As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
- Thyself art witness I am betrothed.
- Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
- The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
- Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .
Derived terms
* expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witnessVerb
(es)- This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- He witnessed the accident.
- This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
- General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
- Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
- to witness a bond or a deed
Synonyms
* certifyAnagrams
*peer
English
(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)