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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :   [ foldoc ]

  PEEK
       
          The command in most microcomputer BASICs for reading
          memory contents (a byte) at an absolute address.  POKE is the
          corresponding command to write a value to an absolute address.
       
          This is often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in
          any High Level Language.
       
          Much hacking on small microcomputers without MMUs consists
          of "peek"ing around memory, more or less at random, to find
          the location where the system keeps interesting stuff.  Long
          (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various
          computers circulate (see interrupt list).  The results of
          "poke"s at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly
          amusing, useless but neat, or total lossage (see killer
          poke).
       
          Since a real operating system provides useful, higher-level
          services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes
          on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level
          memory groveling, a question like "How do I do a peek in C?"
          is diagnostic of the newbie.  Of course, operating system
          kernels often have to do exactly this; a real C hacker
          would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute
          address to a pointer variable and indirect through it.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
          (1995-01-31)
       
       

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Peek \Peek\, v. i. [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick,
     E. pique. Cf. Peak.]
     To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a
     crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :   [ jargon ]

  peek n.,vt. (and poke) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for
     directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often
     extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any HLL (peek reads
     memory, poke modifies it). Much hacking on small, non-MMU micros used to
     consist of `peek'ing around memory, more or less at random, to find the
     location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably
     accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulated (see
     {interrupt+list" rel="nofollow">{interrupt list). The results of `poke's at these addresses may be
     highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or (most likely) total
     lossage (see killer poke).
  
     Since a real operating system provides useful, higher-level services
     for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes on micros, and
     real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory groveling, a
     question like "How do I do a peek in C?" is diagnostic of the newbie.
     (Of course, OS kernels often have to do exactly this; a real kernel
     hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address
     to a pointer variable and indirect through it.)
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :   [ vera ]

  PEEK
       Partners Early Experience Kit (Taligent)
       
       

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Peek \Peek\, v. i. [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick,
     E. pique. Cf. Peak.]
     To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a
     crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  peek
       n : a secret look [syn: peep]
       v : throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced
           at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything
           interesting" [syn: glance, glint]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 (αμτβ) κοιτάζω κάτι κρυφά
     2 (αμτβ) σκάω μύτη
     Αγγλικά vb.
     1 (αμτβ) κοιτάζω κάτι κρυφά
     2 (αμτβ) σκάω μύτη

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     Hlai a.
     high
     n.
     A quick glance or look.
     vb.
     1 (lb en informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or
  through a crevice; to peep.
     2 (lb en informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if
  peering out from a hiding place.
     3 (lb en computing transitive dated) To retrieve (a value) from a
  memory address.
     n.
     (misspelling of en pique)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  peek’
     Yucatec Maya n.
     dog

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Peek
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  PEEK
     n.
     (acronym of en polyetheretherketone)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     n.
     A quick glance or look.
     vb.
     1 (lb en informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or
  through a crevice; to peep.
     2 (lb en informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if
  peering out from a hiding place.
     3 (lb en computing transitive dated) To retrieve (a value) from a
  memory address.
     n.
     (misspelling of en pique)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Peek
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  PEEK
     n.
     (acronym of en polyetheretherketone)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     n.
     A quick glance or look.
     vb.
     1 (lb en informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or
  through a crevice; to peep.
     2 (lb en informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if
  peering out from a hiding place.
     3 (lb en computing transitive dated) To retrieve (a value) from a
  memory address.
     n.
     (misspelling of en pique)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Peek
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  PEEK
     n.
     (acronym of en polyetheretherketone)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     n.
     A quick glance or look.
     vb.
     1 (lb en informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or
  through a crevice; to peep.
     2 (lb en informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if
  peering out from a hiding place.
     3 (lb en computing transitive dated) To retrieve (a value) from a
  memory address.
     n.
     (misspelling of en pique)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Peek
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  PEEK
     n.
     (acronym of en polyetheretherketone)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     Englanti vb.
     kurkistaa

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  peek
     Engelska vb.
     kika, glutta

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Peek /pˈiːk/
  النظرة الخاطفة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  peek //piːk// 
  надничам
  To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  peek /pˈiːk/ 
  pokukovat

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  peek /pˈiːk/ 
  forschend blicken, spähen, schielen, gucken [Dt.]  [ugs.] , kieken [Norddt.]  [ugs.] , lugen  [geh.]  [veraltend]
        "She peered/peeked/squinted over her book."  - Sie blickte/spähte/schielte über den Rand ihres Buches.
     Synonyms: look inquisitively, peer, squint
  
   see: looking inquisitively, peering, peeking, squinting, looked inquisitively, peered, peeked, squinted
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  peek //piːk// 
  1. pilkistää, pilkottaa
  To be only slightly, partially visible
  2. kurkistaa
  To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep
  3. hakea, lukea
  computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  peek /pˈiːk/
  zavirite

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  peek //piːk// 
  覗く
  To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  peek /pi:k/
  I.    [nieform]  zerkać (at sb - na kogoś)
  II.    zerknięcie, spojrzenie

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  peek //piːk// 
  tjuvkika, glutta, kika, slänga ett öga
  To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  peek /pˈiːk/
  1. gözetlemek, gizlice bakmak
  2. gözetleme, göz atma.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈpik/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "peek":
     bend the eyes, blink, cast, direct the eyes, flash, gander, glance,
     glimpse, half an eye, look, meddle, nose, peep, peer,
     play peekaboo, pry, quick sight, rapid glance, slant, snoop, spy,
     squiz, take a peep, wink
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  v. 偷看,窥视;
  n. 偷看,窥见;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     vi. 偷看,窥视
     n. 偷看,窥见

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