different between peek vs contemplate

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)

1. (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
2. (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
3. (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.

Translations

Related terms

• peekable
• sneak peek

Etymology 2

Noun

peek

1. Misspelling of pique.

Anagrams

• Ekpe, Keep, Peke, keep, kepe, peke

Basque

Noun

peek

1. 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

1. high

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1590s; borrowed from Latin contempl?tus, from contemplari (“observe, survey”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?m?ple?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?m?ple?t/
• Hyphenation: con?tem?plate

Verb

contemplate (third-person singular simple present contemplates, present participle contemplating, simple past and past participle contemplated)

1. To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
2. To consider as a possibility.
   • 1793 February 18, Alexander Hamilton, Loans, speech given to the United States House of Representatives:

     There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.

   • 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law

     If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ponder
• (look at): examine

Derived terms

• contemplative

Related terms

• contemplation

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “contemplate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Italian

Verb

contemplate

1. second-person plural present indicative of contemplare
2. second-person plural imperative of contemplare
3. feminine plural of contemplato

Anagrams

• completante

Latin

Participle

contempl?te

1. vocative masculine singular of contempl?tus