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Definition: Peek |
PeekNoun1. A secret look. Verb1. Look furtively. 2. Throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "glint" is archaic; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peek" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Peek \Peek\, intransitive verb. [from Old English expression piken: compare to the French expression piquer to pierce, prick, English pique. Compare to Peak.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Peek n.,vt. (and poke) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any HLL (peek reads memory, poke modifies it). Much hacking on small, non-MMU micros used to consist of `peek'ing around memory, more or less at random, to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulated (see {interrupt list). The results of `poke's at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or (most likely) total lossage (see killer poke). Since a real operating system provides useful, higher-level services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory groveling, a question like "How do I do a peek in C?" is diagnostic of the newbie. (Of course, OS kernels often have to do exactly this; a real kernel hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and indirect through it.). Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A BASIC command for examining the contents of a memory address.See also: Poke
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peek."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PEEK | English | Partners Early Experience Kit | Computer - (Taligent) |
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Synonyms: PeekSynonyms: glance (v), glint (v), peep (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Peek |
| Specialty definitions using "peek": last looking. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Peek" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (gable top), Maya (dog), Portuguese (PEEK), Yucatec (movement). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Remember, when the tooth fairy comes, don't peek. (Darkness Falls; writing credit: John Fasano) They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ABC Funshine Saturday Sneak Peek (1974) Peek Freak (1973) The Peek Snatchers (1965) Peek a Boo (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ... Credit: NASA. |  | One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. The Hubble telescope has ... Credit: NASA. |
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| "PIC00457.JPG" by Shawn Taylor Commentary: "Use any way you want. Although, I would like to take a peek if you choose to use it." |
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| "Peek" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 44.74% of the time. "Peek" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 44.74% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.63% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.47% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.16% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "peek" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Peek | Last name | 4,000 | 3,174 |
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Expressions using "peek": gust peek speed ♦ have a peek at ♦ peek in ♦ peek out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "peek": peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo!, peek-bo. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
peek | 601 | peek of pandora | 20 |
peek show | 191 | 2 free peek | 20 |
pantie peek | 184 | peek thong | 20 |
peek a boo | 138 | peek a boo lingerie | 18 |
peek poo | 95 | peek up my skirt | 17 |
sneak peek | 70 | peak peek | 17 |
peek n peak | 52 | booty peek | 15 |
nipple peek | 50 | chat nude peek show | 15 |
sneek peek | 46 | n peak peek resort | 15 |
down blouse peek | 42 | peek poos | 15 |
peek a boo bra | 38 | into peek welcome yesterday | 14 |
upskirt peek | 37 | peek skirt | 14 |
free peek | 28 | peek pussy | 13 |
dog peek poo | 26 | motel peek | 13 |
peek show live | 25 | peek plastic | 13 |
into peek yesterday | 23 | cloppenburg peek | 12 |
free peek show | 23 | block fisher peek price | 12 |
block peek | 23 | peek tit | 12 |
peek poo puppy | 22 | peek sneaky | 11 |
peek traffic | 20 | free pantie peek | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "peek"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përgjoj (eavesdrop, peep, spy, watch), përgjim (listening, listening in, peep, watchfulness), shikoj vjedhurazi (peep), shikim vjedhurazi (peep). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظرة مختلسة, إختلس النظر (peep), ألقى نظرة خاطفة (flash a glance, glimpse, snoop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надничане (peep), надничам (peep, peer, pry), надзъртане (keek, peep), надзъртам (keek, peep, pry), поглед (blush, eye, eyewink, gaze, look, regard, sight, view, vision). (various references) | |
Chinese | 偷看 (Peeped, Peeping). (various references) | |
Czech | pokukovat (keek, peep, peer), rychlý pohled (glance), kouknout, juknutí, juknout. (various references) | |
Danish | PEEK. (various references) | |
Dutch | PEEK. (various references) | |
Farsi | نگاه دزدانه , زیرچشمی نگاه کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | PEEK. (various references) | |
French | PEEK, trier, regarder furtivement (peep), jeter un coup d'œil furtif, coup d'œil furtif. (various references) | |
German | PEEK, verstohlener blick (peep), spitzen (cuspids, keep a look-out, peaks, pinnacles, point, points, prick up, pucker, purse, sharpen, spires), spähen (peer, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout), lugen (peep), linsen (copy, lenses, peep), kurzer blick, heimlicher blick, gucken (have a view of, look, peep, see, watch), flüchtiger blick (dip, glance). (various references) | |
Greek | PEEK, κρυφοκοίταγμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להציץ (gaze, glance at, peep, peer, pry, squint). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kukucskál (keek, peep, to peek, to peep, to pry), kandikál (pry, to peek, to pry). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lihat (look, see). (various references) | |
Italian | PEEK, sbirciata (peep), sbirciare (glance at, peep), occhiata (blink, glance, glimpse, look, peep), istruzione PEEK. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ビル風 (binding, bingo, eddies of wind around high buildings, foot fastening, green pepper, pea coat, pea jacket, peace, peach, peacock, peahen, peak, peanut, peanut butter, peanuts, peas, peep show, Peeping Tom, people, people's capitalism, Peter Pan syndrome, Piaget, pianica, pianist, piano, piano and harmonica, piazza, piece, piecework, piercer, pimento, PR, public relations, Russian food, velvet, village, vintage, vintage year). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ピーク (peak). (various references) | |
Korean | 엿봄 (Peeping). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eekpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pipilar (chirp, peep, pip, pule, tweet, twitter), piar (cheep, chirp, get up the better, hoot, peep, pip, pule, screech, tu-whoo, twitter), PEEK, espreitar (keek, kike, lurk, peep, peer, pry, stalk, watch), espiar (keek, kike, peach, peep, pry, spy, spy on, waylay), começar a nascer (peep), começar a aparecer (dawn, keek, peep), chilrear (cheep, chirp, chirrup, peep, tweet, twitter), chiar (crank, creak, grate, gride, grumble, hiss, jar, peep, screak, scroop, simmer, sizzle, squeak, whir). (various references) | |
Romanian | se uita (eye, lamp, look at, regard, see), arunca o privire (cast a glance, get a glimpse of, have a glimpse of, take a look). (various references) | |
Russian | взгляд украдкой (furtive glance, peep, stealthy glance), заглядывать взгляд, заглядывать (peep, pop in), быстрый взгляд (eyebeam, eye-beam, glance, glimpse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | viriti (keek, peep, peer, stick out), virenje (peep). (various references) | |
Spanish | ojeada (glance, look), mirar rápidamente, mirar a hurtadillas, mirada (eagerness, gaze, glance, look, regard), elegir (choose, constitute, elect, Favor, favour, opt, pick on, pick out, read out, return, select, tip, vote in), echar una ojeada, atisbar. (various references) | |
Swedish | PEEK, titta (consider, deem, glance, look, peep, regard, see, to look, view, watch), titt (dip, glance, look, peep), kika (consider, deem, keek, look, peep, peer, pry, regard, view, watch). (various references) | |
Turkish | gözetlemek (case, case the joint, espy, eye, keep cave, observe, peep, pry, pry about, pry into, spy, spy on, spy on smb., spy out, spy upon, stand over, watch), gözetleme (look out, lookout, observation, observing, peeping, spying on, surveillance, watching), göz atıvermek, dikizlemek (case, case the joint, have a peep, peep, pry, pry about, pry into, take a peep), cıvıldama. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | глянути (look, take a gander), виглядати (look out), заглядати (look in, look into, peep), погляд крадькома, писк (cheep, squeak, thread of sound). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peek": peekaboo, peekaboos, peeked, peeking, peeks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "peek": apeek. (additional references) | |
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"Peek" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eeek, eeeuk, epec, fpeak, paak, paek, Pauk, pec, peec, peeg, peeik, peej, peekl, peeky, peeq, peev, peex, peez, pefec, peik, pek, Peke, pekel, pelk, Penk, Perec, Petko, phee, piec, Pieck, piek, Pleiku, Poeke, poik, Prek, preke, puek, Puok, puuk, py, pyc, pyka, pyrk, veek, zeek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peek" (pronounced pē"k) |
| 3 | p ē" k | bespeak, misspeak, peak, pique, respeak, speak. |
| 2 | -ē" k | antique, batik, beak, bleak, boutique, cacique, cheek, chic, cleek, clique, creak, Creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, greek, leak, leek, meek, mystique, oblique, physique, reek, seek, sheik, Sheikh, shriek, sleek, sneak, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tweak, unique, weak, week, wreak. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: keep, peke. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-k-p" | |
-1 letter: eke, kep, pee. | |
-2 letters: pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-k-p" | |
+1 letter: apeek, keeps, kelep, kreep, peeks, pekes, pekoe. | |
+2 letters: keeper, keleps, kelped, kelpie, kepped, keppen, kreeps, peaked, pecked, pecker, peeked, pekoes, perked, peruke, reperk, upkeep. | |
+3 letters: apelike, barkeep, bespake, bespeak, bespoke, ekpwele, henpeck, keepers, keeping, kelpies, kneecap, kneepad, kneepan, miskeep, outkeep, peakier, pealike, peckers, peckier, peeking, peglike, perkier, peruked, perukes, peskier, pickeer, pikemen, pinkeye, prebake, reperks, respeak, respoke, skelped, speaker, specked, speckle, upkeeps. | |
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