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- [peek]
- /pik/
- /piːk/
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- [peek]
- /pik/
Definitions of peek word
- verb without object peek to look or glance quickly or furtively, especially through a small opening or from a concealed location; peep; peer. 1
- noun peek a quick or furtive look or glance; peep. 1
- noun peek quick look 1
- intransitive verb peek look quickly 1
- noun Technical meaning of peek The command in most microcomputer BASICs for reading memory contents (a byte) at an absolute address. POKE is the corresponding command to write a value to an absolute address. This is often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any High Level Language. Much hacking on small microcomputers without MMUs consists 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 circulate (see interrupt list). The results of "poke"s at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or 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, operating system kernels often have to do exactly this; a real C hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and indirect through it. 1
- verb peek If you peek at something or someone, you have a quick look at them, often secretly. 0
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Origin of peek
First appearance:
before 1325 One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; Middle English piken (v.); perhaps dissimilated variant of kiken to keek
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Parts of speech for Peek
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peek popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
peek usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for peek
verb peek
- be-held — simple past tense and past participle of behold.
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- gaze — stare
- get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
noun peek
- gander — a town in E Newfoundland, in Canada: airport on the great circle route between New York and northern Europe.
- glom — to steal.
- look see — a visual inspection or survey; look; examination: have a look-see.
- look-see — a visual inspection or survey; look; examination: have a look-see.
- look — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
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