Peep vs. Peer — What's the Difference?

To utter short, soft, high-pitched sounds, like those of a baby bird; cheep.

To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty.

To speak in a hesitant, thin, high-pitched voice.

To be partially visible; show

To peek furtively; steal a quick glance.

A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age

To peer through a small aperture or from behind something.

A nobleman.

To appear as though emerging from a hiding place

A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.

To cause to emerge or become partly visible

A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.

A short, soft, high-pitched sound or utterance, like that of a baby bird.

(Archaic) A companion; a fellow

A slight sound or utterance

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

Any of various small North American sandpipers.

To come in sight; to appear.

A quick or furtive look or glance.

To make equal in rank.

A first glimpse or appearance

(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.

A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.

A look; a glance.

A feeble utterance or complaint.

Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).

The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.

Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).

A sandpiper or other small wader.

A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.

A comrade; a companion; an associate.

The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.

(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

(obsolete) A spot on a die or domino.

To come in sight; to appear.

Person.

To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

To make equal in rank.

To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

To be, or to assume to be, equal.

(intransitive) To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

(intransitive) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

To take a look at; check out.

A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group

To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance; as, the sun peeped over the eastern hills.

A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.

Look searchingly;

The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

First outlook or appearance.

A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.

Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).

The short weak cry of a young bird

A secret look

Look furtively;

Cause to appear;

Make high-pitched sounds; of birds

Speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice

Appear as though from hiding;