Peer vs. Colleague
Difference Between Peer and Colleague
Peerverb
(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
Colleaguenoun
A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
Peerverb
To come in sight; to appear.
Colleagueverb
To unite or associate with another or with others.
Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)Peerverb
To make equal in rank.
Colleaguenoun
an associate you work with
Peerverb
(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.
Colleaguenoun
a person who is member of your class or profession;
the surgeon consulted his colleagueshe sent e-mail to his fellow hackersPeernoun
A look; a glance.
Peernoun
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
Peernoun
Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
Peernoun
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
a peer of the realmPeernoun
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
Peernoun
(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
Peernoun
a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Peernoun
a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
Peerverb
look searchingly;
We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around
