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peek
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /pi?k/
- Homophones: peak, peke, pique
- Rhymes: -i?k
Alternative forms
- peak, peke (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English *peken, piken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of peep and keek.
Verb
peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)
- (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
- We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
Translations
Related terms
- peekable
- sneak peek
Etymology 2
Noun
peek
- Misspelling of pique.
Anagrams
- Ekpe, Keep, Peke, keep, kepe, peke
Basque
Noun
peek
- ergative plural of pe
Hlai
Etymology
From Proto-Hlai *p?a?k (“high”), from Pre-Hlai *pa?k (Norquest, 2015).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Hlai) IPA(key): /p?e?k?/
Adjective
peek
- high
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behold
English
Etymology
From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan? (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- +? hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??h??ld/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??ho?ld/
Verb
behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)
- (transitive) To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- (intransitive) To look.
- (transitive) To contemplate.
Usage notes
Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:look
Derived terms
- beholder
- eye of the beholder
Translations
Interjection
behold
- look, a call of attention to something
- lo!
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:lo
Translations
References
- behold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- behold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?e?h?l?]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German beholt, behalt, from the verb beholden; see also Danish beholde.
Noun
behold c (uninflected)
- (archaic) haven, refuge
- in the phrases i behold (“intact”) and i god behold (“safe”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
behold
- imperative of beholde
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
behold
- imperative of beholde
behold From the web:
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- what holds sister chromatids together
- what holds base pairs together
- what holds ionic compounds together
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