Peer vs. Equivalent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Peer and Equivalent
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Peer
To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty.
Equivalent
Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
One unit is equivalent to one glass of wine
Peer
To be partially visible; show
The moon peered from behind dark clouds.
Equivalent
A person or thing that is equal to or corresponds with another in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
The French equivalent of the Bank of England
Peer
A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age
Children who are easily influenced by their peers.
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Equivalent
The mass of a particular substance that can combine with or displace one gram of hydrogen or eight grams of oxygen, used in expressing combining powers, especially of elements.
Peer
A nobleman.
Equivalent
Equal, as in value, force, or meaning.
Peer
A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.
Equivalent
Having similar or identical effects.
Peer
A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.
Equivalent
Being essentially equal, all things considered
A wish that was equivalent to a command.
Peer
(Archaic) A companion; a fellow
"To stray away into these forests drear, / Alone, without a peer" (John Keats).
Equivalent
Capable of being put into a one-to-one relationship. Used of two sets.
Peer
(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
Equivalent
Having virtually identical or corresponding parts.
Peer
To come in sight; to appear.
Equivalent
Of or relating to corresponding elements under an equivalence relation.
Peer
To make equal in rank.
Equivalent
(Chemistry) Having the same ability to combine.
Peer
(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.
Equivalent
(Logic) Having equivalence
Equivalent propositions.
Peer
A look; a glance.
Equivalent
Something that is essentially equal to another
"The hand is not the biological equivalent of a hammer or a screwdriver.
The hand is a multipurpose tool like a Swiss Army knife" (Jonathan Gottschall).
Peer
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
Equivalent
(Chemistry) Equivalent weight.
Peer
Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
Equivalent
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.
Peer
A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
A peer of the realm
Equivalent
(mathematics) Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
Peer
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
Equivalent
(mathematics) Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
Peer
(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
Equivalent
(chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.
Peer
To come in sight; to appear.
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Equivalent
(cartography) Of a map, equal-area.
Peer
To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.
As if through a dungeon grate he peered.
Equivalent
(geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
Peer
To make equal in rank.
Equivalent
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
Peer
To be, or to assume to be, equal.
Equivalent
(chemistry) An equivalent weight.
Peer
One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
In song he never had his peer.
Shall they consort only with their peers?
Equivalent
(transitive) To make equivalent to; to equal.
Peer
A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Equivalent
Equal in worth or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.
Peer
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.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power.
Equivalent
Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; - applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
Peer
A person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Equivalent
Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.
Peer
A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
Equivalent
Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent. . . . During some weeks the word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse orators.
Peer
Look searchingly;
We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around
Equivalent
That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.
Equivalent
A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base.
Equivalent
To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
Equivalent
A person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc;
Send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps
Equivalent
The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen
Equivalent
Equal in amount or value;
Like amounts
Equivalent amounts
The same amount
Gave one six blows and the other a like number
An equal number
The same number
Equivalent
Being essentially equal to something;
It was as good as gold
A wish that was equivalent to a command
His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
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