peek
English
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)
- To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- 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
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep
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To be only slightly, partially visible
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computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address
Related terms
Etymology 2
Noun
peek
- Misspelling of pique.